inception. Who We Served Artology 2012 served 34 (20, 6th-8th Graders and 14, 4th-5th Graders) students who were: o 50% female, o 50% male, and o 94% African American. 76% of students came from families at or below Federal Poverty Level or from lowincome households. 29% of students were coping with homelessness. Artology is offered on an income based sliding scale, and many of our students would not be able to attend this quality of summer programming otherwise! 43% of participants were returning students from previous years. 55% of students had perfect or near perfect (only missing one day) attendance. How/What We Learned (Curriculum/Theme) The program was based on the over-arching theme of “Fire and Ice (Hot and Cold)”. This theme provided many opportunities for learning in each of our skill development areas (Artistic, Scientific, Spiritual/Character, and Academic). Hence, to provide Artologists with many interesting, educational, and fun experiences, each week of the program was split into sub-themes influenced by “Fire and Ice”: Week 1: The Five Senses Our introductory week in which students learned how to use their five senses with intention in the lab, outside during field work in one of our local parks, or other field work sites! Artologists learned how to use instruments such as the microscope as well as understand the correlation between the magnification of a microscope and that of a digital camera as they tried their hand at macro or ZOOM photography!
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