Photo Literacy Project
This 20 week program was a partnership with Bradley Elementary School, local photographer John Meyerhofer, and ArtsCAP. Mr. Meyerhofer taught basic photography concepts, terms and techniques to 2nd and 4th grade elementary school students. Every week, the students were given a camera to take home and document their communities, homes and world. They then write stories about the world they captured in their photographs. This sharpens their writing skills in an engaging and meaningful way—addressing, grammar, vocabulary, and content generation. At the end of the project, the students’ stories and pictures were gathered and bound into a book. A copy of the book was given to the school library and the work is exhibited in a local art gallery, so that the students are publicly recognized as artists and authors.
This invaluable program received grants from Johnson & Johnson, Target, and The Geraldine Dodge Foundation, as well as financial support from many individual citizens.