Events
Art on Sedgwick
Chicago, Illinois
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We are pleased to have partnered with Art on Sedgwick for their Artist in Residence event with Cecil McDonald Jr. and the Lookingglass Theatre. The Moment in Time exhibit is up on display on the grounds of the Manierre Elementary School in Chicago.
Art Institute Field Trip - Montessori School of Lake Forest
Chicago, Illinois
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Every year the students in the Upper Elementary (4th-6th grade) classroom at the Montessori School of Lake Forest take the Metra train to Chicago to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. The field trip began as a way to honor Ilan’s love of art, especially the Art Institute’s modern wing. Ilan had been in the Upper Elementary classroom at the time of his death.
2019
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2017
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Birding Adventure on the Horicon Marsh - Van Brunt 4th graders
Horicon, WI
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2021
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2020
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After our visit to the 4th graders at Horicon Elementary School, COVID shut everything down, and sadly the children were not able to take their birding boat trip on the Horicon Marsh. Instead we gifted these lovely journals and bird ID cards they may use to explore the Marsh with their families.
2019
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One of the nature adventures Ilan loved most was birding. He enjoyed spying the Bald Eagles and the Great Blue Herons from a pontoon boat on the Horicon Marsh. Although the students who attend Van Brunt school live next to the largest freshwater cattail marsh in the United States, many of them haven’t been exposed to all the wonders of the marsh. 5 Purple Oranges also supplied the children binoculars so they could get the most out of their experience.
Books for Africa
South Africa
2019
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We supported Books for Africa with a portion of our Summer Reading fundraising this summer. With the $224 we granted, BFA sent 448 books to the Molo Mhlaba girls Montessori school in South Africa in honor of what would have been Ilan’s 15th birthday.
2018
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From Mother’s Day to the end of May, all of our donations went to Books for Africa. We were able to send them $125 which purchased 250 books for the project.
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Bernie’s Book Bank
Lake Bluff, IL | 2018
2019
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For every $10 we collected for our Summer Reading initiative this summer, we donated 10 minutes of time to Bernie’s Book Bank as volunteers. Six volunteers joined two of our board members for a fun afternoon stickering books for Bernie’s in October.
2018
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From Mother’s Day to the end of May, for every $10 we collected, local board members donated 1 book to Bernie’s. We collected 14 books and look forward to partnering with them in the future
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI
2021
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5 Purple Oranges sponsored the Mary Nohl Teacher Fellowship for the Fox Point-Bayside School District students. The students toured the Arts Center and then visited the Art Preserve where they met artist Dr. Charles Smith and curator of the home of Mary Nohl Alex Gartelmann. The kids created plaster cast objects with clay molds which will be on display during Youth Art Month in March of 2022.
2020
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5 Purple Oranges sponsored free art kits for children to use while visiting the Arts Center and to continue the art exploration and creation at home.
2019
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5 Purple Oranges sponsored a Teacher Fellowhip for the Howards Grove Middle School to create lesson plans for the Lenore Tawney exhibition series, Mirror of the Universe. The students spent a day at the Arts Center, viewing the textile works of Lenore Tawney, then creating weavings using meaningful, personal items. Then the students physically connected their art in a unique design after creating personal connections. Teachers also provided a cross-curricular lesson incorporating the language arts classroom, where students designed little books of art containing their “I Am” statements, inspired by Lenore Tawyner’s life. Student work will be displayed in the Community Gallery in 2020.
2018
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Exhibition Artists-in-Residence (ExAIR) offers students exciting opportunities to meet and work with renowned artists exhibiting at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Participants learn more about the art in the galleries and explore the creative process with the artists. 5 Purple Oranges gifted funds to JMKAC to have Maggie Sasso, the ExAIR artist Winter 2018-2019 visit Riverview middle school in Plymouth, WI, where she presented an explanation of her textile work creating patches. The children drew designs for their own buttons and patches, some were displayed at the JMKAC in the Summer, and every child was gifted a button of their own design.
Music Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL | 2021
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Arthur Riddle is one of the 2021 recipients of the Ilan Hurtado Scholarship. Arthur is currently taking private on-line Suzuki lessons with Julia Wen, a student of the late Gilda Barston.
Wellness with Bella
Chicago, IL
2021
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We gifted cookbooks to support the summer cooking camps, as well as primarily African American authored works to contribute to traveling libraries to keep kids reading when they weren't able to attend school.
2020 | Virtual Cooking camp
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Wellness with Bella presented Virtual Cooking Camp online. 200 kids used the cookbooks we gifted to learn from celebrity chefs, including Chef Chris from Big Star.
2019 | Socratic Summer REading
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This year the kids decided to put on a show! We gifted the participating children the book of their choice: The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck, and they created the scripts, the scenery and put on a performance at summer’s end.
2018 | Cooking with Cops
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We donated 50 cookbooks for the 9-11 year old campers to use at camp and take home with them to continue inspiring their love of cooking!
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