Empowering students through corrective identity experiences via visual art
What happens when children see themselves in art?
Students are multi-faceted individuals with a range of skills and abilities. When we funnel the evaluation and instruction of our educational tools to one acceptable lens, we miss the many-layered opportunities students may have to access their curriculum.
LevelUp Multiliteracy Foundation is a Non-Profit designed to apply an often overlooked aspect back to education experiences by empowering identity and teaching the whole child. With the use of Art and centralizing the stories and work of the global majority, we make for a richer, culturally relevant take towards closing the gap and restoring the excitement about learning.
Adrielle Turner, MSEd, Phd Candidate
Current Projects
Currently Collaborating with several galleries including the Nicola Vassell Gallery to bring forth educational programs to educate students on the interdisciplinary inspirations of the artists included in their exhibitions and provide an avenue for corrective identity experiences
We’re all in this together x Quiana Parks
Significance of Art History Framework
My educational background consists of Linguistics, Communicative Disorders, Special Education, Deaf Education, Neuroscience, and Critical Race Theory applications to Art and Education. Through this interdisciplinary journey, I have observed a significant lack in the representation of art in these practices when it so beautifully ties them together. Additionally, there is a disproportion in the exposure of black and brown students to these frameworks. The same students are graded on their analytic skills on elements of history that have no relevance to them, until now.
Kerry James Marshall Mastry 2017
“Your environment gate keeps your experiences. Your experiences dictate what you comprehend. If our environments vary, how can we learn from one common core?”
— Adrielle Turner, MSEd
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
turner.adrielle@gmail.com