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

As we change the calendar from 2018 to 2019, all of us at Arts For All are thrilled to have had another full year.

This past year Arts For All's Artistic Residency Program, where professional artists teach visual arts, dance, theater, music, poetry, and film workshops to youth, continued to grow. Throughout the year, students learned skills such as how to paint flora and fauna living in New York State in Visual Arts, and through Dance/Movement, students increased body awareness and prepared for an in-school dance festival. Other programs under the umbrella of the Artistic Residency Program included:

• Video Creation Project in which youth at Incarnation Children's Center (ICC) and students at Williamsburg High School of Arts & Technology (WHSAT) create documentary and fictional short films. In 2018, ICC created a sock puppet parody video of Law & Order, while classes at WHSAT made videos including one about a possessed doll.
• Creative Works partners with New Alternatives for Children (NAC), where children worked for 10 sessions to create and perform an original piece. This year, NAC participants created a show called Two Sides to Every Story, which included an original adaptation of The 3 Little Pigs from the Wolf's perspective.

Literacy Through the Arts, a school year-long program at PS 15, PS 163, and Hamilton Heights School, promotes, reading, writing, and verbal expression skills through a multi-arts curriculum for grades K - 2. This year, each grade demonstrated a wide variety of skills through arts integration. Some examples include Grade K working on vowel recognition through song, Grade 1 learning the basics of making a story and creating puppets to tell stories, and Grade 2 creating original adaptations of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Thank you once again for your continued support of our mission. Without your help, we would not be able to reach thousands of under-served New York City children with our accessible arts programs.

Links:

• Video Creation Project: ICC's LAW & ORDER: PUPPET EDITION
• Catch up on AFA Spotlights for the year