UNC Pembroke’s Art Education program is committed to community outreach and has forged partnerships with community organizations and public schools throughout the UNCP region. School groups visit our facilities and gallery and engage in hands-on learning experience. Art education students participate and facilitate artmaking experiences for arts day festivals on campus and in the local community. UNCP hosts annual Professional Development Days and other opportunities for visual arts teachers across North Carolina. In addition, all art education students participate in service-learning as part of their coursework. We believe that these community efforts raise awareness of the importance of art education and allow community members to be exposed and engage in the visual arts.
Service Learning
In several art education courses; students engage in service-learning projects. The art education program has forged partnerships with Pembroke Housing Authority after school program, Pembroke Elementary School, Fairgrove Middle School, Dunn Middle School, Rockingham Middle School, just to name a few. These experiences allowed students to make connections between theories and practice by giving them a real-life teaching experience outside the confines of a textbook or the university classroom context.
Fairgrove Middle School
Art education students led middle students through designing and painting a mural based on Robeson County. This semester-long project culminated in the installation of the mural at UNCP’s Entrepreneurship Incubator.
Fairgrove Middle School.
Fairgrove Middle School.
Fairgrove Middle School.
Pembroke Elementary School
3rd graders from Pembroke Elementary School created masks inspired by African masks and Picasso’s portraits with recycled cardboard.
Pembroke Elementary School.
Pembroke Elementary School.
Pembroke Housing Authority After school Program
Art Education students led afterschool students to create mosaic collages of their favorite animals
Professional Development
Visual Arts Teacher Professional Development Day
The Art Department hosts the yearly Professional Development conference at UNC Pembroke to Region 4 (Bladen, Clinton, Columbus, Cumberland, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Whiteville) visual arts teachers.
Professional Development.
Professional Development.
Professional Development.
Professional Development.
Professional Development.
Professional Development.
North Carolina Art Education Association (NCAEA)
Every year a delegate of Art Education students attend the NCAEA conference. In 2019, 6 art education students were awarded a PURC (Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity) grant to travel to the NCAEA regional conference in Raleigh, NC. There presentations included the work that they did as part of their Service Learning.
Community Activism
Columbus County High School Student
High school junior and seniors from Columbus County spent the day at UNC Pembroke Art Department learning about the art department and taking college level studio classes. The day culminated with students exhibiting their work at UNCP’s Entrepreneurship Incubator and art faculty conducting a critique of their work.
Columbus County Arts Festival
Dr. Lifschitz-Grant was a guest artist and facilitated groups of high school students to paint large scale murals for their respective schools.
Elizabethtown Primary Description
4th graders from Elizabethtown Primary visited the UNC Pembroke Art Department and toured the A.D. Gallery and participated in a hands on artmaking experience. The students created ink resist self-portraits.
Science Expo, UNC Pembroke
Community members working on animal stick puppets, a science related art experience at the Science Expo in Collaboration with the Morehead Planetarium & Science Center
