Students this week: 49
Total unique students in Aprils Hero program to date : 81
Art submissions this week: 91
Total art submissions in April to date: 167
We are proud to celebrate autism awareness month by launching a month of free art programming for children of local heroes (military and first responders) plus autistic and special needs students.
We are almost 3 weeks into our Hero art program. This week we focused on serving autistic and special needs students in Surprise; Phoenix, Peoria, Goodyear and Avondale (We are serving many cities within Maricopa throughout April). Thank you Yvonne Wan for volunteering her time at Inspire Academy for autistic kids; Seeds for Autism school, home visits for students who are home-schooled, and on line zoom classes. Our students valued the large and small group and individualized learning opportunities with Comic creator Yvonne Wan (who has a Masters of Science, in Social Cultural Anthropology which includes anthropological perspectives on psychiatry and psychology).
This week, our autistic and special needs students were presented with coloring sheets of Focus the autistic super hero driving a Sun City and Phoenix fire truck. They were also presented with coloring sheets of our Luke Air Force F35 fighter jet, and MSCO autistic Pony, US NAVY/ US Marines LARC-V vehicle and US Army Tank that Yvonne had drawn for the students. Our students learned about the important hero work that the military and first responders perform in the community. Yvonne Wan, our Focus comic creator introduced our students how to apply different water color techniques, including gradation, textures and layers (Wet on Wet and Wet on Dry brush techniques). Some of our students participated in the traditional medium technical drawing class, which included learning how to draw a US Navy / Marines LARC-V.
Check out our students art work. Next week, Yvonne Will be entering City of Glendale, and Avondale to teach more autistic and special needs students.
Art by our Autistic Sun City Students. Thanks Inspire Academies for inviting Yvonne Wan as their guest speaker and art teacher for two consecutive days as a volunteer:
Art by our Autistic students in Phoenix at Seeds for Autism:
Art by our home schooled autistic and special needs students:
Note: The week isnt over yet, so more pictures of other classes will be added to this page.
Students this week: 49
Total unique students in Aprils Hero program to date : 81
Art submissions this week: 91
Total art submissions in April to date: 167
Thank you to our team of teachers and support staff who helped our students fulfill their creative potential. We love Inspire Academies, Seeds for autism and Yvonne Wan for supporting young autistic talent.
Thank you Blick Art Materials for providing class room art supplies for this program in support of children of heroes plus autistic and special needs kids.