Purpose of National Education Association Fine Arts Grant:

"The NEA Fine Art Grants are awarded to fine arts teachers, through local NEA affiliates, to enable them to create and implement fine arts programs that promote learning among students at risk of school failure. Programs must address the arts."

1. What disadvantaged/at-risk students will be served?
2. What are your learning goals for your project?
3. Describe your activities
4. How will you evaluate student outcomes?
5. Teacher/Artist qualifications
6. How will you use the grant funds...specific itemized list

Some of the Comet Arts goals follow many of what the artmakers and cultural centers are doing Nationally.
1. Positive self-image
2. Understand the World; affiliation with diverse elements
2a. focus of details; looking at a specific challenge or situation
3. Art=Empowerment; faith
4. Reading and Writing Skills
5. Work habits and collective/group skills
5a. Working with kids on a personal level first and then towards group/community work
6. Questioning points of view
7. Pass on and share knowledge

One of the main elements of Comet Arts would be the idea of pulling something from everyday life to be used in, or designed around, a project. It's important that children at this age understand arts presence in everything they do. Art class doesn't end when you walk home. Comet Arts has designed its projects using parts of everyday life: street signs, shopping, music, videogames, family, spirituality, home, siblings, hanging out, posters, fashion, televison, movies, toys and so on. What are they experiencing everyday?

Visual Arts: A National Mix of Essentials:

1. Artistic Perception
Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and
Skills Unique to the Visual Arts

Perceive and respond to works of art, objects in nature, events, and the environment. They
also use the vocabulary of the visual arts to express their observations.

Develop Perceptual skills and visual arts vocabulary
Identify and describe the principles of design in visual compositions, emphasizing unity and
harmony. Identify and describe characteristics of representational, abstract, and
nonrepresentational works of art.

Analyze Art Elements and Principles of Design

2. Creative Expression

Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Visual Arts

Apply artistic processes and skills, using a variety of media to communicate meaning and intent in original works of art

3. Historical and Cultural Context

Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of the Visual Arts

Analyze the role and development of the visual arts in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to the visual arts and artists.

How does are local art museums contribute to the conversation of art?
Identify and compare works of art from various regions of the United States

4. Aesthetic Valuing

Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works in the Visual Arts

Analyze, assess, and derive meaning from works of art, including their own, according to the elements of art, the principles of design, and aesthetic qualities.

5.Connections, Relationships, and Applications

Connecting and Applying What is Learned in the Visual Arts to Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers