A Warsaw Community Schools art teacher received a Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship to travel Route 66.
Andrea Miller teaches at Washington STEM Academy and Claypool Elementary. With a grant of $12,000, Miller will find, purchase, restore and travel in a vintage camper. Her trip will follow parts of historic Route 66 from her home in Warsaw to California and back, according to a news release from Washington STEM Academy Principal Tom Ray.
The adventure will happen throughout 2017 and into spring 2018. She will share her adventure with her students by inviting them outside of the school to the mobile “Making Place” to complete an art project of their own.
Miller is one of 100 educators receiving grants through the 2017 Teacher Creativity Fellowship program. These K-12 educators work in a variety of schools in Indiana, including traditional public schools, charter schools and private schools – both religiously affiliated and independent. Since the Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship program began in 1987, more than 2,900 Indiana teachers, principals, guidance counselors and media specialists/librarians have received fellowships.
Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family – J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons J. K. Jr. and Eli – through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. The Endowment supports the causes of community development, education and religion and maintains a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and its home state, Indiana, the release states.
