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Summer Farm Camp in Monterey County

Melissa Schilling Art and Community, Workshops

This summer, Project HOPE Art’s Melissa Schilling will lead two weeks of day camp at Monkeyflower Ranch home of Garden Variety Cheese Dairy. Children ages 8+ are welcome to sign up for a fantastical adventure featuring a bevy of activities related to food, nature, farming and art.

Art Farm Camp

Cost is $265
(Two Scholarships per week are available – More info below)

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Project Description

FACT:  The life expectancy for Haiti is low 50 years for men and 53 years for women.

FACT: Only 53% of Haitians can read and write

FACT: Only about 40% of school-aged children attend school regularly

FACT: Only about 10% of all Haitian children enrolled in elementary school go on to a high school

 
PROJECT HOPE ART, WITH THE HELP OF DONORS LIKE YOU, ARE DEDICATED TO MAKING A CHANGE.

The Wise Elders began as a workshop lead by Esnold Jure with his fellow faculty members (Winter, Gueldy, and Lisane). This eight week project engaged forty-six students.  The objective over the eight weeks was to encourage the Haitian youth to reach out to the elders of their community.  Through the process of photographic documentation and interviews, students helped the Wise Elders preserve  memories, reflect on  accomplishments, and share their voices.

Subjects emphasized:

  • English
  • Writing
  • Photography
  • Public speaking/ Presentations
  • Interviewing skills

Workshop Budget breakdown

  • Tuition per student: $25 (Tuition for 46 students: $1,150)
  • Salary per teacher: $100 (Salary for 4 teachers: $400)
  • Education for our youth: PRICELESS

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Sample Schedule:

  • 11am-11:30am: Scientific Sketch Journal Warm-Up (Put on your Scientist Hat and learn to sketch nature like a real Scientist)
  • 11:30-12pm: Nature Hike to observe farm animals and the garden
  • 12-12:30 Lunch on the Farm Patio with homemade lemonade
  • 12:30-1:30 Papier Mache Sheep Sculptures
  • 1:30-2 Free Play
  • 2-3pm: Bread Baking in the Pizza Oven

Summer Camp Flyer

Interested in securing a spot for your child?

Wonderful! Mosey on over to Garden Variety Cheese for more information about the $150 non-refundable deposit and have any additional questions you may have answered!

Scholarships! Scholarships! Scholarships!

Two spots are reserved for low-income campers per session. Low-Income spots cost just $50 for Art & Farm Camp. Simply write a short essay explaining why you would like to attend Art & Farm Camp. Bonus Points if you can amaze us with fun facts about sheep and lambs. Extra Special Bonus Points if you include an illustration of a sheep or a lamb.

Mail your essay to (deadline June 15th):

Miss Mimi
Art & Farm Camp
1480 San Miguel Road
Watsonville, CA 95076

The Traveling Rainbow Cabinet of Fun

Melissa Schilling Join the Team, Partners, Thank Yous, Visual Storytelling

pha-art-center_final-concept_b-1-e1355946878102 The only thing that beats a good plan, is a better plan. We find that collaboration brings us closer and closer to the best plans in the world.

Enormous thanks to Sam Bloch and Elizabeth Marley for collaborating on the early vision of our art center / storage container. Immense, gratitude to the NGO family over at Communitere for supporting our ideas, visions and plans. Especially Delphine Bedu and Caroline Etienne for handling so many nitty gritty details on our behalf.

In 2013, our rainbow cabinet was built by master craftsman, Jason DeCook and then painted in the colors of the rainbow by our friend, Aimee Gaines. Our Lady of Art was created by our friend Julie Koopman and she stands watch over all the visiting artists and their projects.

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From our little spot in the workshop at Communitere we launched a number of projects, including Let There Be Light 1 and Let There Be Light 2. Thank you to artists Jenni Ward, Luc Winter, Racine Polycarpe, Claudel Cassius, Jason DeCook, Aimee Gaines, Shrine, Moon and Jade for all the hard work to make art in Cite Soleil.

857808_10152525576805567_1944484788_oFor the last two years our rainbow cabinet has lived at Haiti Communitere stuffed to the brim with paint, paper, pastels, brushes and a ton of glitter.
For the last two and a half years we have held puppet shows, dance parties, recycled trash makeovers and more than one bicycle blender fruit smoothie extravaganza.

Haiti Communitere was a perfect home for us and all of our sparkling trinkets of inspiration and creativity. Free spirited artists must keep moving, so onward we go.

On February 15th our little Cabinet of Fun bid adieu to HC. We hope it left a trail of glitter so everyone could find their way to us in our new home in Pacot. Our cabinet is now parked in the Pacot neighborhood next to the Hotel Olofson. The keepers of the cabinet are 20 young ladies who are excited to put its contents to good use.

And with our move, comes new projects and collaborations …

  • We will be working with Emy Morse at her art school in Montan Noir.
  • We are also launching an art project with Human Rights activist and FOSAJ artist, Charlotte Charles and The Haiti Initiative’s Kara Lightburn in Jacmel.
  • And this summer we will be launching a summer gardening class with Rebuild Globally and SOIL.

    • “These are the days of miracle and wonder. This is the long distance call.” -Paul Simon

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    Sponsor a Student in 2014

    Melissa Schilling Uncategorized

    Project HOPE Art is now fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas!

    Our new Project HOPE Art Center is primed and ready to host countless children in an array of art classes. We need your help to keep funding alive!

    Click Here to Give a Tax-Deductible Donation!

    This Holiday Season you can give the gift of learning and development in the Third World to a family member or friend in the First World. Donate now and we will send the recipient of your choice a festive and cheerful e-card explaining the details of your very special gift to support art in Haiti!

    Make a $50 Donation to cover lunches for one student for a semester.
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    Make a $75 Donation to cover books, transportation and lunches for a student for a semester.
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    Make a $100 Donation to support our new animal husbandry program in conjunction with our Art + Botany class.
    (Yes this is the goat’s natural hair!)
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    Make a $150 Donation to cover English lessons (including books, transportation and lunches) for an entire year for one student.
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    You can also set up recurring payments to sponsor the Project HOPE Art Center all year round.

    $1200 covers the costs of an entire arts education class for 12 students. Our arts classes create jobs for local Haitians, and all of this can be achieved with $100 monthly donations for one year.
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    $600 covers the costs of seeds, clean water, nutritious compost and guest lecturers for our Art + Botany Lab class. All of this can be achieved with $50 monthly donations for one year.
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    Just click this link, make your donation and we’ll be in touch to send a personalized e-card to the recipient of your choice.
    All holiday donations must be in by December 20th for e-gift cards to arrive by Christmas! To help support HOPE Art and keep art alive for kids in Haiti, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. Your donation is incredibly appreciated.

    Thymus vulgaris

    Melissa Schilling Thank Yous

    We’d like to thank Cleanwell for providing us with hand sanitizer on each and every trip to Haiti. We are looking forward to expanding our programming into Rwanda and bringing more alcohol-free hand sanitizer with us. Thymus vulgaris has been used as an antiseptic for thousands of years in Roman, Greek, and Indian (Ayurvedic) medicine.

    In medieval times, the plant symbolized courage, and to keep up their spirits, knights departing for the Crusades received scarves embroidered with a sprig of thyme from their ladies. There was a popular belief, too, that a leaf tea prevented nightmares, while another held that tea made of thyme and other herbs enabled one to see nymphs and fairies. Herbalists of the Middle Ages regarded thyme as a stimulant and antispasmodic, and recommended sleeping on thyme and inhaling it as a remedy for melancholy.

    And we believe that Thymus vulgaris, the main cleansing ingrediant in Cleanwell helps all of our children stay fresh, alert and nightmare free. Contracting infectious disease in the developing world ain’t no picnic.

    THANK YOU CLEANWELL.

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    Melissa Schilling Haitian Culture/Language

    Haiti faces key challenges in the water supply and sanitation sector:

    * Haiti’s coverage levels in urban and rural areas are the lowest in the hemisphere for both water supply and sanitation. Sewer systems and wastewater treatment are nonexistent.

    * In rural areas those without access to an improved water source got their water primarily from unprotected wells (5%), unprotected springs (37%) and rivers (8%). In urban areas those without access to an improved source got their water from “bottled water” (20%), from carts with drums (4%) and unprotected wells (3%).

    * According to the Demographic and Health Survey 2006, 10% of those living in urban areas and 50% of those living in rural areas defecated in the open.

    * In almost all urban areas water supply is intermittent.

    * In January 2010 parts of Haiti including the capital were hit by a massive earthquake. More than 1.5 million people were displaced and had to live in refugee camps without piped water supply or sanitation, where most of them still live.

    * The main public institution in the Haitian water sector is the National Directorate for Water Supply and Sanitation in the Ministry of Public Works, called DINEPA after its French acronym (Direction Nationale d’Eau Potable et d’Assainissement).

    * Some of the NGOs active in drinking water supply in Haiti are:
    Action Contre la Faim (French),
    the Association haïtienne pour la maîtrise des eaux et des sols (ASSODLO) (Haitian).
    CARE (US),
    the Comité Protos Haïti (Haitian),
    le Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (French),[10]
    Helvetas(Swiss),
    Inter Aide (French),
    International Action (US),
    Oxfam (UK and Canada),
    the Pan American Development Foundation (linked to the Organisation of American States)
    World Vision (US).