How You Can Help

We believe all children should have creative, hands-on art experiences from professional, community-based artists. You can commit to helping us reach more children where they live, learn and play with meaningful arts experiences. Together, we can help children…

Experience: A strong case can be made for learning through firsthand arts experiences demonstrated by professional artists
Understand: Thought-provoking artist residencies, workshops, and performances evoke a deep understanding of the art form and its history and culture
Create: Creativity transforms the way young people think, expanding their thought process and deepening their engagement
Connect: Teaching artists skillfully connect arts learning to other areas of study, and to kids’ lives and world, demonstrating the importance of collaboration and community

How Your Gift Impacts Students

A gift of any level has a huge impact – consider the opportunities your gift could bring to the kids we engage with tomorrow:

$5 per month can help one child learn about science through a clay sculpting workshop
$50 per month can support a 6-week dance residency for an entire class each school year, encouraging them to find rhythm and express themselves through improvisational poses
$75 can supply oil pastels, drawing paper, graphite and watercolor tablets to an entire classroom for a visual arts residency using insects as muse, inspiring kids to create hybrid creatures on paper
$250 can support one artist residency session for 2 classrooms, introducing students to oral storytelling traditions from around the world
$400 can provide two visual arts workshops, inspiring 30 young people to paint an undersea mural inspired by Polynesian folk tales
$800 can fund assembly performances for an entire school where students are introduced to the history of drums in American popular music from Jazz to Hip Hop
$1,100 can underwrite a 10-week artist residency to an entire classroom, enabling them to explore the Latino cultural experience through musical theater and opera

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Curated Residencies in Action

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