DIA PROJECT
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The Project that Focuses on these 5 History Months:
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The DIA PROJECT provides a 1 hour multi media presentation designed specifically with schools in mind but, we are also available for other suitable venues. During the hour small art exhibits, digital slideshows, fact-packs, discussions on the month's theme and a Q&A are all part of the experience. We also provide collaborative Mural projects and other Art workshops. Charles Trott, creator of the DIA Project, attended Lincoln University in Pa. for only 1 year. Deciding to pursue Visual Art, rather than Sociology, he transferred and later graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. with a BFA. While there, he majored in Fine Arts and minored in Education. His introduction to Public Art began with a job as an apprentice to Benoit GilSoul, a master stained glass artist from Belgium. At that time they worked on a 2400 sq.ft. low relief sculpted mural carved in granite and the stations of the cross carved in mahogany. This project was completed for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. During the same period he began to teach Drawing for the N.Y. Department of Corrections. Since those times he has worked for several school districts in New Jersey and the Ministry of Education in Bermuda as a Visual Arts teacher. Over the years, he also worked as an Artist-in-Residence, for the Bureau of Prisons at Miami Federal Correction Institution in Florida and the Monmouth Museum in Middletown, NJ. Two of his most memorable moments, that would eventually inspire him to create the DIA project, were the 10-day culturally immersive trips to Egypt and Cuba. |