Arts and Culture United States Project #16428

Art Programs For 5,000 In-Need New York Children

by Arts for All

Art Programs For 5,000 In-Need New York Children

Project Report | Feb 22, 2021
Spring 2021 Updates: New Programming & More!

By Felix Reyes | Development Associate

AFA TA Darian Dauchan - Virtual Learning Series!

Program updates for Spring 2021

Since March 2021 Arts For All has made strides in maintaining our programs and delivering them to our partners in need. As we're now well underway with our programming for Spring 2021 we've wanted to share with you all some of what we're currently working on!

Literacy Through The Arts - beginning at the end of February, we will begin 7 residencies within Renaissance Charter School, 5 of which are for kindergarden, and 2 of which are for 1st grade. Outside of live time virtual facilitation, three of our Teaching Artists Mélissa Smith, Shawn Shafner, and Leah Young will also be working on creating 15 virtual learning videos each to share with our LTA partners such as PS15, PS76, and PS163, to eventually upload to our on YouTube channel.

Artistic Residency Program - Our residencies will begin in March. We are looking forward to starting virtual programs with a number of our long-term partners, including Williamsburg High School of Arts & Technology, New Alternatives for Children, and Renaissance Charter School. We will also be creating a number of additional video tutorials for children to be able to take part in art programs from home this Spring.

Audience Project - We're really excited to announce that Arts For All will restart this program under the guidance of AFA Teaching Artist Darian Dauchan, where we will be producing his production of "Voice Power," which toured to schools live at Arts For All in 2015, this time in a virtual format with 5-6 performances happening this Spring.

Mondays with Mé featuring Mélissa Smith

As part of our new initiative with all of our virtual programming, we're excited to promote our brand new Mondays with Mé weekly live stream events featuring Arts For All Teaching Artist Mélissa Smith!

Having launched on January 18th, 2021, we plan to have program every Monday going through the end of June. This program takes place on our Facebook page every Monday at 1pm EST, where Mélissa, in live time focuses on a daily reading from a children's book, as well as movement activities to help keep young children engaged in all of the fun! For the month of February Mondays with Mé are specially focused on Black History Month, and in March will be focused on Women's History Month.

Please join us for our next Mondays with Mé event every Monday from now till the end of June 2021 at 1pm EST on our Facebook page!

We have many more exciting virtual learning programs and projects in the works, so stay tuned and follow our social media pages to stay up to date on all things current with Arts For All!

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Oct 27, 2020
AFA Back in Action for Fall 2020!

By Felix M Reyes | Development Associate

Learning about Anaphora Poems with Darian Dauchan

On behalf of everyone here at Arts For All we'd like to send you our Fall season greetings!

As the school year kicks back into full swing, our organization continues to find new ways to provide our essential arts programs to our partners, while expanding our resources and services in ways in which we're able to reach families virtually during this period of COVID. In order to highlight some of these initiatives we want to share with you some samples of what our Teaching Artists have been up to in creating video content and more news for upcoming residencies in the works!

Since mid-April we’ve been working tirelessly on developing new partnerships with organizations and schools such as PS9, Wildflower Charter School, Roots Cafe (in Parks Slopes) and have been working together with our Teaching Artists to create all new video content for our student and partners to use during this period of time. As a result of all the work we've been able to build on over the summer our Teaching Artists have been able to create 57 full length videos tutorials that are full of jam-packed content that each of our partners and students can use to work on various types of arts projects while at home!!

Here are just some of these video samples done by some of our senior Teaching Artists Darian Dauchan, MaryAnne Piccolo, and Ciara Ruddock:

Walking through how to go about writing Acrostic Poems, as a part of his video series on poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg0f95C-L3U

Video Creating with MaryAnne pt.1 - Creating a Storyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EW5kZUCrIc&t=3s

Creating Stop Motion Animation with Ciara Ruddock Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fki_KOWNAKQ&t=6s

If you're interested in see the rest of our new content you can find all 57 tutorials/video series playlists broken down by each Teaching Artist on our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5FiWO2Dk-3t8f9uYrr7ug

Now that we've been able to create this content and transition all of our programming virtually, we've also been fortunate enough to be able to continue all of our residencies virtually as well, while also focusing on new outreach and fundraising initiatives that will help us engage with our partners more directly with outside partners such as Smart Design and Tropical Cream. Arts For All will however remain virtual for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year or until it is safe for both our students and teaching artists to resume in-person programming.

During these difficult times we at Arts For All would like to personally thank you for continuing to support our organization during such difficult times. Now more than ever the world needs the arts for our children, and as we still push forward into 2021 we are making it our goal and priority to serve as many students as we possibly can during this period of time.

We are wishing you and your loved ones remain in good health and spirits and hope that you will continue to support our organization, so that we can create a better world in which we can continue to provide sustainable, quality arts programs to under-served children during this critical moment in time and for years to come.

Sincerely,

Anna Roberts Ostroff

Executive Director

www.arts-for-all.org

Learning to create your own movie with MaryAnne!

Learning Stop Motion Animation with Ciara Ruddock!

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Jul 1, 2020
Virtual Learning, Roots Cafe Partnership, and More

By Felix M Reyes | Development Associate

On behalf of everyone here at Arts For All, we hope you are doing well during these unprecedented times we are facing.

As our organization is committed to finding new ways to provide our essential arts programs for in-need children, we are continuing to offer opportunities to families during this coronavirus crisis, be it virtually, or by finding ways to bring arts activities directly into their homes. As a result we have been working with our Teaching Artists in creating new virtual content for our media and for our youth partners, while also developing new partnerships in order to serve more in-need children.

In keeping you informed of Arts For All's current activities, we would like to share with you some of our most recent projects, accomplishments, and information about upcoming events that are on the horizon for the summer:

1) Virtual Learning during COVID-19

In order to continue serving our children and partnering organizations, one of the many initiatives we have decided to take upon ourselves during this time of COVID is creating an extensive library of video content to help transition all of our programs into an online learning format.

Here is a sample work of one of our senior Teaching Artists, Ciara Ruddock, demonstrating stop motion animation exercises in this instructional video she created as part of this initiative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfJA22bfUvs&t=42s

If interested you can find more virtual content up on our YouTube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5FiWO2Dk-3t8f9uYrr7ug

2) Partnership with Roots Cafe

Our newest initiative, in partnership with local South Slope coffee shop Roots Cafe, who has recently converted their business into a food pantry,

(https://www.rootsbrooklyn.com/), is in producing Arts For All activity books that will be delivered out to local families within the Brooklyn community through Roots Cafe. These packages will include arts supplies, such as crayons, and will serve approximately 480 children from K-3 all over Brooklyn, who are in need of learning activities and the arts during this time of self-quarantine.

3) Outreach during COVID-19

In these uncertain times Arts For All has been able to adjust and work on creating new outreach opportunities going forward, such as working with Newspark, a Harvard student organization that is promoting nonprofits' work during these difficult times, and most recently developing new partnerships with local schools in NYC to be able to deliver free outreach services such as delivering books to children directly into their homes.

During these difficult times it's easy to get lost in all of the negative news that has been currently getting thrown at us and lose sight of all the good in the world, but in taking a moment to reflect I personally want to thank you for continuing to support our organization during such difficult times. Now more than ever we need the arts to reach our children, and so in working on these various initiatives we've shared in this newsletter we are making it our goal and priority to serve as many students as we possibly can during this period of time.

It is because of individuals like yourself, our dedicated staff, teaching artists, donors, and partnering organizations, that we are able to achieve the work we're able to do.

We are wishing you and your loved ones the best health and spirits and hope that you will continue to support our organization, so that we can create a better world in which we can continue to provide sustainable, quality arts programs to under-served children for years to come.

Sincerely,

Anna Roberts Ostroff

Executive Director

www.arts-for-all.org

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