Various community based art programs and projects.
Students at the Nassau County Museum of Art participate in a summer camp that focuses on the incorporation of visual art and the natural world.
This photograph shows campers identifying and illustrating the leaf from a sassafras tree in their field guides.
Participants were introduced to the program Students Rebuild (studentsrebuild.org) and encouraged to create artwork that would help raise funds for different communities in need around the world.
Students made pinwheels to raise funding to support Syrian peers. For each pinwheel made, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $2 to the International Rescue Committee’s Healing Classrooms program in Iraq and Lebanon. That helped to create classrooms and a stable learning environment for children affected by the Syrian civil war.
Residents at the Amber Court assisted living home create clay pinch pots.
Residents at the Amber Court assisted living home paint their ceramic pinch pots.
For every hand students made and sent in to Students Rebuild, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $1.90—up to $500,000—to Save the Children’s programs empowering youth in Nicaragua and Indonesia to rise into a life they dream for themselves.
Students were invited to write down prayers to place in The Brandeis School pop up Kotel.
Middle school students painted skateboard decks that were donated to the Freeport chapter of H.E.L.P. (helpservices.org). A local youth organization that runs after school activities.
The world’s oceans and the people who live closest to them face urgent environmental challenges—but the actions of young people made a collective wave of support. Students made over 250,000 sea creatures which were each matched with a donation from the Bezos Family Foundation. In total, $500,000 was donated to ocean conservation and programs training coastal youth in ocean conservation.
Students have created an artfully illustrated version of a recipe—an actual recipe or a more imaginative, conceptual one-—that reflects culture, community, and connection.
For every recipe you sent to Students Rebuild, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $3 to support programs providing immediate hunger relief and prevention, nutrition education, and the development of long-term, community-based agricultural solutions.
Community Members through out the Nassau County area demonstrated their appreciation for first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating a multi media rainbow mural that proudly hangs in Mercy Hospital.
The Freeport Community was invited to take part in the Youth Art Month Mural Scavenger Hunt that brought them to different points of interest through out downtown Freeport. Once participants found the mural they had to look for key symbols and match them to the correct mural in town.