High school art teacher Laura Wright visited the Drachen Foundation Study 
Center in late September to view art kites and gather material as inspiration for a project she planned to implement in her upper level sculpture class. When they were done with this project, she invited Drachen Staff into the classroom to see how she implemented art kites into her sculpture curriculum and to view the finished products.
A visual artist, Wright has been interested in kites for several years. A resident of Georgetown, Washington—right next to SEATAC airport where kites cannot be flown—she sees the kite as a form of protest as well as a piece of art and decided to introduce this concept to her students.
In the classroom, Wright first gave her students a primer on kites and art kites, 
showing photos of several sculptural pieces she had found at the DF study center and on the internet. She then set three limits to the construction of student kites: they had to be three-dimensional (sculptural), they had to be based on a concept, and the kite form had to reflect that concept. Says Wright, “As an early-in-the-year project, I wanted to integrate them into building something that’s conceptual, structured and strong.”
Wright, who also works with Youth In Focus, a non-profit organization teaching photography to local urban teens, has also shown interest in introducing KAP to 
photography students, wanting students to be able to express themselves through a different perspective and to document the changes in the area around Youth in Focus classrooms, as the area becomes more gentrified and experiences urban development. Wanting to further develop their KAP curriculum, DF plans to partner with Wright and Youth in Focus using KAP in the future.