By Jessie Kilguss | Development Associate
Spring at Arts For All is bringing many exciting things, including two field trips! The first is our annual Day at the Met, sponsored by Capgemini, which is taking place this Saturday, May 10th. For the past eleven years (with the exception of 2005), Arts for All has organized a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The trip serves to expose youth to the classics, inviting the children and teens to fully explore all the museum has to offer. The children who will attend our 2014 A Day at the Met include: children from New Alternatives for Children, an organization providing specialized care for disabled and chronically ill children and second graders from PS 163, an extremely low income elementary school in the Bronx.
The Metropolitan Museum donates tickets each year to Arts For All to allow a group of in-need children to visit the museum. Participants have a tour from a Metropolitan Museum Tour Guide, an exhibit-specific tour led by Arts For All Teaching Artists, and have lunch together. Capgemini, PS 163 and New Alternatives for Children provide adult chaperones for the visit. Arts For All provides volunteers to spend the day with the group, lead the afternoon tour, and keep the youth company. Volunteers engage the children and help ensure that they have a good experience.
For the second field trip, taking place at the end of the school year, Arts For All is bringing second-graders from PS 163 to the office of Smart Design, an innovative design agency. Smart Design will facilitate a design-oriented art workshop with the students, giving them a hands-on artistic experience and insight into the world of professional design.
Also coming up this month, Teaching Artist Franklyn Strachan will run the second Video Creation Project with children and youth living at Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC), a facility providing specialized care for youth living with HIV and AIDS. Last year’s Video Creation Project at ICC was an exciting, moving experience for both student participants and ICC and AFA staff. We’re excited to offer this program a second year in a row, thanks in part to funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. We’re seeking additional funding for this program and we welcome your ideas on how to support and grow this special program.
Finally, Arts For All’s Haiku Program was recently featured in an article on the importance of teaching poetry, by Suzi Parker on the website takepart.com. You can read that article here. http://www.arts-for-all.org/archives/1968
Thanks so much for supporting our programs! With your help, Arts For All continues to deepen our programs and our commitment to helping in-need children develop self-confidence, self-expression, teamwork, resilience and creativity through the arts.
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