Category: Visual Storytelling

2013 – Melissa SCHILLING

January 17, 2014January 17, 2014 Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class, Art Projects, English Class 2013, Girls Only English Class 2013/14, Haitian Culture/Language, Photography Class 2013, Urban Agriculture, Visual Storytelling

My name is Melissa Schilling and I am the Creative Director for Project HOPE Art.

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There are so many wonderful moments from the last year that bring me such great joy to relive.
We taught Rothko-esque painting, weaving (both hair pompoms and dreamcatchers) and a big upcycled can car project. We participated in many different Photography Shows in Port au Prince and in California with Student Photographs from our Photography Class and my own documentary photos.

We also created rainbow eggs infused with Moringa Powder to coincide with a reading of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham for our Art + Literacy program.

And yet, so many exciting projects are waiting to be executed in 2014. We have a Gardening Class with accompanying Rabbit Husbandry Program and the makings of a Ukelele Class. Who knows what other ideas will suddenly appear like magic!

Cheers to you 2013 you were an awesome year!

Highlights in Pictures:

2013 – Fanel DUCE

January 17, 2014January 17, 2014 fatatis Haitian Culture/Language, Uncategorized, Visual Storytelling

Mwen rele Fanel DUCE ! Mwen fe pati gwoup atis rezitans .Sa gen deja 10 mwa depi kek koleg ki andan ati Rezistans te refere mwen ak Project Hope Art . Mimi san prantan te asepte ke mwen ofri sevis mwen ak Prorject Hope Art, ke mwen konsidere kom yon oganizasyon k’ap fe yon travay inpotan nan sosyete Ayisyenn nan.

Pou Ane 2013 la, mwen te reyalize kek travay ak Project Hope Art. Tankou : Can race, an kolaborasyon avek menm koleg sa yo. Nou te fe fomasyon pou timoun yo, sou reyalizasyon Machine a mamit . Mwen gen proje klas angle pou ti fi k’ap mache e ki pwal rantre nan gradyasyon pou komansman 2014 la.

Pou ane 2014 la mwe gen pou mwen fe gradyasyon pou klas fotografi ak klas angle pou timoun yo. Mwen konte patisipe nan proje klas janden Luc winter a, pou yon kou desen. Epi mwen kom proje refe yon lot klas angle kap gen ni ti fi ,ni gason jis pou plis timoun benefisye.mwen gen kek lot proje anko ,mwen jis ap pran yon tan pou reflechi e we nan ki pwen pou reyalize yo ak Projet HOPE Art.

Interactive Portrait Project

December 16, 2013February 8, 2014 Melissa Schilling Art Projects, short story series, Visual Storytelling

We’re always on the look-out for collaborative art projects perfect for kids and adults.
Inspired by Mica Angela Hendricks over at Distractify we give you: The Haiti Portrait Exchange!

Simply mail us an 8.5X11 drawing of a face with room for a body, background scenery and other imaginations and we’ll take it down to Haiti. One of our art students will finish your drawing. We’ll post the results here on the Project HOPE Art blog.

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Mail to: 2601 Adeline Street, Suite 101A Project HOPE Art, Oakland CA 94607
Deadline: October 15, 2014
Portraits will travel to Haiti in November of 2014. Watch for results in 2015!

Voodoo Tire Necklace Class

August 30, 2013September 3, 2013 Art Projects, Haitian Culture/Language, Visual Storytelling

It was very warm in the Oaktown Gallery housed at American Steel this last Saturday (August 17). The sun shone on giant metal sculptures outside. And the clanging of tolls echoed around the cavernous room inside the gallery.

We held a class with 12 people, in order to show them how to turn trash into a work of art. We took car tires that people had discarded and we demonstrated how to repurpose them.

First everyone made a drawing on paper.
Next, we traced their drawings onto the rubber. Cutting the drawings out from the rubber was laborious but triumphant. We used hammers, scalpels, box cutters and heavy duty scissors.
Once freed from the rubber, each design was attached to string and hung around the students neck.

I was very happy with all of you for responding to this invitation to learn Haitian street art. I want to see all of you for another class next year.