Art programs for 3,500 in-need New York children

Thank you for your support of Arts For All (AFA). The 2015-2016 school year has come to a close and another successful school year has goes in the books!

In June, two more Arts For All programs came to a close. Teaching Artist Franklyn Strachan led a film residency at the Green School in Brooklyn. Students got hands-on experience creating their own documentary. At PS 76, Teaching Artist Vidho Lorville worked with students to bring together Visual Arts and Haiku poetry. Students created colorful works inspired by works of Sydell Rosenberg (1919-1996).

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.

Thank you for your support of Arts For All (AFA). Spring has sprung and AFA programs are springing up all over New York City. Literacy Through the Arts is running in grades K – 2 at Hamilton Heights Elementary School in Harlem and PS15 Elementary in the Lower East Side.

AFA recently completed Artistic Residency Programs at Weeksville Elementary (video) and PS163 (drama, visual arts). High School students at Brooklyn’s The Green School are in the midst of a creative writing/poetry residency while 2^nd and 3^rd graders at PS69 on Staten Island are in the middle of a drama residency.

Outside of the classroom, Arts For All was pleased to partner with Brooklyn Ice at the end of March! The afternoon in Prospect Park, Birds, Bees, and Bears, was a celebration of nature and AFA Teaching Artist Maya Suess conducted a mask-making workshop.

As the City settles into the Spring weather, Arts For All is excited to get some returning programs off the ground. AFA returns to New Alternatives for Children and Incarnation Children’s Center with Creative Works and the Video Creation Project (respectively). AFA is also thrill for the return of the Haiku program, thanks to donor Amy Losak. Students at PS76 in Queens have just started a residency combining visual arts and haiku after a very successful music and haiku program at the same school this past fall.

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.