Lecture: Bowling Against Hunger in L.A. (Lower Alabama) Percy, teaching in a split between 3D Studio and Art Education at Troy University, will chronicle the birth and early growth of a "collaboration rich" Empty Bowls initiative serving Pike County and surrounding areas in rural south Alabama. Strong partnership between higher ed and underserved K-12 schools highlighted.

1. NCECA 2014 Conference: Material World
Bowling Against Hunger in L.A.
(Lower Alabama)
Larry Percy
Associate Professor • 3D Studio/Art Education
Troy University

2. What do 1st
Lady, Div1 FB
coach
Celebrity Bowling

3. Pike County High School Art class

4. Welcome to “L.A.”
Not this one… ...this one.
“Lower Alabama”

5. Poverty Map

6. State Map

7. What do 1st
Lady, Div1 FB
coach
Celebrity Bowling
Carrie Rigdon with Boris Lee

8. Jerrel Jernigan
Celebrity Bowling

9. John Hartom

10. Early Grant Work
Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

11. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

12. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

13. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

14. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

15. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

16. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

17. Kids painting long

18. Color, Creativity, and Collaboration

19. Final CCC
Canvases

20. A fine arts collaborative experience
between the Troy State University
Department of Art and Design and
the Pike County Elementary Schools:
Goshen • Banks • Pike County

21. TSU + Pike County
CONNECTIONS:

22. CONNECTIONS:
Pre-service educators +
experienced faculty in the field

23. CONNECTIONS:
Art + “core” curriculum

24. Arts Connections

25. Impacting K-12 Public Schools

26. 4000+ students receiving art lessons

28. $12,000 of art supplies to county schools

30. Take 5 Art Print sets for each school

31. Real world teaching experiences
for pre-service educators

32. Communicating the sheer joy of learning

33. Inspiring discovery

34. Rescuing “creative genius”

35. Complex problem solving

36. visual problem solving“there are no mistakes…only possibilities”

37. Nurturing creativity

38. Encouraging Self Expression

39. Impacting K-12 Public SchoolsToday’s youthTomorrow’s leaders

40. … ….so is art
….and for the future of a world
worth living in, both are essential.

41. Pike County Visual Arts Project (VAP)
2001 – 2014
• 500+ visual arts lessons
• 11,000 Pike County students
engaged in quality art lessons; grades
3-12
• 600 pre-service elementary and art
education majors immersed in real
world teaching experiences before
internship

42. Montgomery Empty Bowls 2009

43. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE 2010

44. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE 2010

45. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE 2010

46. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE 2010

47. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE 2010

48. ALABAMA CLAY CONFERENCE 2010

49. ALABAMA CLAY
CONFERENCE 2010

50. ALABAMA CLAY
CONFERENCE 2010

52. Visual Arts Achievement Workshops

53. Andy Martincack at Colley Sr. Center

54. Visual Arts Achievement Workshops

55. Visual Arts Achievement Workshops

57. 2013 Pike County High School “EB” Making Day

58. PCHS EB Day 2013

60. PCHS EB Day 2013

61. PCHS EB Day 2013

62. PCHS EB Day 2013

64. 2014 Pike County High School “EB” Making Day

65. 2014 Pike County High School “EB” Making Day

67. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

68. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

69. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

70. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

71. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

72. Contact Information
Larry Percy
lpercy@troy.edu
(334) 670-3375

73. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

74. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day

75. Studio 116 Students teaching Parents Day