“POP” Pockets of Perception

Pockets of Perception Student Design Team 2021 Accepting Applications

“Pockets of Perception – We Are One Community “ {POP), a program of the Dearborn Community Fund (DCF), is recruiting new members for the Summer 2021 Design Team. POP is open to students attending any Dearborn school and entering their junior year in fall 2021. If accepted for the team, members must commit to a three month project period, from mid-June through mid-August.

POP is designed as an apprentice style program with the following goals:

To encourage multi-cultural understanding and understanding,
To involve young people in creative problem solving tasks through the arts,
To provide experience in the business side of the arts process,
To encourage youth investment in the community,
To engage the community in the process,
To create public art.

Team members, working with a qualified team leader in a workshop setting, develop design concepts, come to consensus on a project idea and then bring the project to completion in the form of public art.

Team sessions commence mid-June and conclude mid-August

POP Application, CLICK HERE

POP APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021

For additional information, contact the Dearborn Community Fund at communityfund@ci.dearborn.mi.us.

POP TEAM 4 MURAL DEDICATION 2018

All are invited to celebrate community and art at the Aug. 15, 5 p.m. dedication of the new mural painted by the Dearborn Community Fund’s “POP” student design team. Free event, free parking. The mural is at the corner of Schaefer and Osborn on the side of the Fish Market building (behind Old City Hall).

The full name of the POP project is “Pockets of Perception — We Are One Community.” It is designed as an apprentice style program to cultivate students’ creativity while encouraging multi-cultural understanding and community investment through the creation of public art.
“Students on the team collaborate with their teammates from across the city on different design concepts and, with the guidance of their instructors, come to a consensus on their project,” explains DCF Executive Director EmmaJean Woodyard. “They learn from artists and work with business professionals and city leaders to turn their collective vision into a real work of art that will permanently enhance the community.”

This is the fourth POP project since the program was introduced in 2010.

POP Team 4 will complete a mural to be installed in a public place. At the conclusion of the project, each team member will receive a stipend up to $1,000 along with great experience to list on college or job applications.

Help support this program and become a sponsor today!

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This Project is made possible by the financial support of the East Dearborn Downtown Development Authority, Ford Motor Company Fund, Kosch Family Foundation, Isamay Osborne, Steven & Faye Adelson from Steven Bernard Jewelers, The Woodyard Family and Cricket Property Management LLC.