Here’s another project that recently caught The Brew’s eye.

Maryland Institute College of Art animation professor Lynn Tomlinson is fundraising for “Memory Tricks!,” a project that pairs eight of her MICA students with eight 5th graders from The Jemicy School.

The Owings Mills school uses multi-sensory methods and experiential learning to teach children with dyslexia and language-based learning difficulties.

Working in pairs, the MICA students and the Jemicy girls are producing short animated films designed to teach techniques for memorizing things, like multiplication tables, spelling and building paragraphs.

Tomlinson – well, her animated construction-paper avatar – explains the project  on their KickStarter site.

The aim is for the Jemicy Students to animate common “memory tricks,” mnemonic devices that dyslexic students can use to help them overcome common learning challenges. So far, the students have worked together on such animation techniques as cut paper, pixilation and frame-by-frame flip-books.

With about two-and-a-half weeks to go in its fund-raising campaign, Tomlinson’s project is about halfway to its $2,300 goal.