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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

art educator, Ural mountains, Russia, culturally sensitive art

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

As stated in my proposal, the overarching goal of this research is to assess how investing time, energy, and talents in improving the physical attributes of a special needs childcare institution in Russia will help art education student teachers become more well rounded, and sensitive educators and artists. I was able to accomplish this by examining my previous trip there, and taking that experience and turning it into a humanitarian effort to help enrich the lives of others, thereby enriching my own life and enhancing my ability to make meaningful art. During my trip to Russia last year I met many orphans who grow up in a rapidly developing country rich in culture, yet their experience is a very different reality. I wanted to find a way of merging the wealth that I saw in Russia’s gilded churches, the hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, and the Kremlin in Moscow with the poverty-stricken villages I visited in the Ural Mountains many miles east.

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