Community Service
Giving HeARTs Installation
Students from the Carl Ben Eielson Middle School Art Club, along with students from Clara Barton Elementary
School, have created a heart-themed art installation at Dakota Medical Foundation (DMF) to help the
organization celebrate the 9th annual Giving Hearts Day, an online 24-hour charitable giving campaign
facilitated through Impact Foundation and DMF. This year’s campaign is slated for February 11.
“Our primary creative focus was how the viewer would experience the art installation,” said Sharon Eide, Fargo
Public Schools visual arts specialist and Clara Barton art instructor. To fulfill that goal, the installation was
designed as a multi-dimensional work of art for the atrium space at the DMF building
To begin the art project, Zach, a Clara Barton fifth grader, and paraprofessional
Dina Schulz used a die-cut machine to make hundreds of different sized hearts
from recycled magazines. The die-cut pieces were then folded and assembled to
create three-dimensional hearts, and attached to long strands of ‘eyelash’ yarn
to be hung from the ceiling.
Zach and some of the die-cut
hearts he created.
More than 30 middle school students worked to complete the art installation
pieces after school in both December and January. Three sections each of
grade three and grade five students from Clara Barton also worked on the
installation project during their art class time in December. All told, hundreds
of hours have been given to the creation of this art installation. “Our students
truly understand what it means to have helping hands and caring hearts,” said
Maia Skarphol, Carl Ben Eielson art instructor. Appropriate, given the name
of the community giving campaign.
The art students and their instructors made the installation in the DMF atrium
earlier this week, just in time to kick off the Giving Hearts community
campaign. The public is invited to Dakota Medical Foundation, 4141 28th
Avenue South in Fargo, to experience it for themselves.
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Carl Ben Eielson After School
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Support FPS Students on Giving Hearts Day
Giving Hearts Day is an annual 24-hour charitable giving campaign facilitated through Impact Foundation and
Dakota Medical Foundation. Online contributions made through Giving Hearts Day on Thursday, February
11 are matched by Dakota Medical Foundation and other donors, doubling the impact of the donation. Three
entities participating in this year's Giving Hearts Day are organizations that serve Fargo Public School students:
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Fargo Public Schools Development Foundation – Donations will go to
the GOT NO MILK campaign, which provides mid-morning milk for our
elementary school children.
Trollwood Performing Arts School – Donations will go to the
Trollwood S.T.A.R. program that provides Trollwood summer
experiences for at-risk students.
Imagine Thriving of the Goetz Mental Wellness Initiative – Donations
will provide mental health education, resources, and access to care for K12 students in the region.
To make a secure online Giving Hearts Day contribution to these
three or any of the other Giving Hearts participating entities and
have your donation matched, go to www.impactgiveback.org on
February 11, click the Giving Hearts Day "Donate Button" and
select the organization(s).
Assembled ‘eyelash’ strand
Pictured are some of the many students who worked on
the art installation in the DMF building atrium. Sharon
Eide is fourth from the left in the back row, and Maia
Skarphol is on the right end of the back row. (Photo
courtesy Sarah Arntson/Impact Foundation)
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