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The
Florida Keys Council of the Arts announces the winners of its current
round of Artists in Schools and ArtReach grants.
These grants are given twice a year.
Applications are available at the arts council office at 1100
Simonton Street in Key West and on its website, www.keysarts.com.
Private donations are sought to fund these grants and others
each year, and over $250,000 has been awarded to date.
Artists
in Schools and ArtReach grants. These
grants are given twice a year. Applications
are available at the arts council office at 1100 Simonton Street in
Key West and on its website, www.keysarts.com.
Private donations are sought to fund these grants and others
each year, and over $250,000 has been awarded to date.
Grantees
in the Artists in Schools program, in which an artist partners with a
teacher or librarian to enhance the existing curriculum include:
·
Musician
Wade Barnes with Marathon teacher Charles Williams and parent activist
Tina Belloti for a Music
Imitative Workshop and Summer Program Preparation
·
Artist
Rick Worth with Montessori Elementary Charter School teachers Lynn
Barras and Monica Sullivan and parent Lucy Paige for View
of the World
·
Key
Largo musicians and teachers Susan Bazin and Robert Sax for Music
Mentors Program
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Sugarloaf
teacher Joanne Brennan with writer June MacArthur for The Poet Within
Grantees
in the ArtReach program, in which an artist partners with a community
business or organization to reach a wider audience:
- Key
West painter/sculptor Roberta Marks with the Key West Museum of
Art & History at the Custom House for Roberta
Marks at the Custom House
- Tennessee
Williams Fine Arts Center Founders Society with Gerald Adams
Elementary School for Street
Beat
- Painter
Pamela McLeod with Big Pine Blue Heron Park for Kids
Art for Blue Heron Park
- Dancer/choreographers
Zoe Hawkins-Wells and Aimee McNally with the Red Barn Theatre for Brazen
Hussies Dance for Key West
- Pianist
Franko Richmond with the Bahama Village Music Program for Bahama
Village All-Stars
Artists in Schools grants (AIS) are funded in
part by the sale of Florida State
of the Arts license tags. AIS
and ArtReach are made possible by the Florida Keys Council of the
Arts, the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida
Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and private
donations.
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