Artists for the Arts

AFTA is now a group on Facebook.  If you have a Facebook account, we’re asking everyone to become a fan and stay updated on how we’re bringing art and music to Portland metro-area schools. 

Funding from AFTA’s 2007 – 2008 Annual Grant Program helped film students from Aloha High School create a Diversity Week documentary for “Aloha TV” about the school’s ESL program.  Their work was featured on Fox 12 Oregon News! AFTA funds helped the school purchase equipment such as a video camera and microphones to film the production, as well for use in future film classes. Congratulations to the students, and instructor Matthew Fox, on this successful in-school arts project!

Artists for the Arts is pleased to announce our 2007-08 arts education grant recipients.

Artists for the Arts is a 100% volunteer, non-profit organization committed to arts education in Portland-area schools. Our Board and membership comprise artists, parents and teachers who come together in the belief that arts education is crucial to the development of confident, creative and community-minded children. As former Governor John Kitzhaber once said, “It is [the] capacity to wonder, to dream and to imagine that allows each generation to fulfill its responsibility to the next.”

Each year, Artists for the Arts awards between $8000 - $10,000 directly to Portland-area arts educators, based on proposals for a variety of project and supply needs. This year’s grants, distributed in January 2008 and totaling $8665, were awarded to:

• ACT at Roosevelt High School and Renee Straube (Portland) for the creation of clay mask sculptures exploring culture and identity


• Metropolitan Learning Center and Ned Hascall (Portland) for a collaborative photography project between Lent Elementary and MLC titled “What I See,” in which both schools present photos at Froelick Gallery examining students’ daily lives


• Bridger Elementary School and Erica Lindgren (Portland) for the purchase of glockenspiels, xylophones, metallophones and hand drums
  


• Rosa Parks Elementary and Jan Bilodeaux (Portland) for books and supplies toward the 5th grade class sculpture and performance exploring notable American Artists
  


• Pioneer School and Michael Laframboise (Lebanon) for a Northwest Children’s Theater residency
  


• Lewis Elementary School and Anthony Jamesbarry (Portland) for the purchase of hand drums and African drums
  


• Renaissance Arts Academy and Melody Rockwell (Portland) for the creation and publication of books written by students
  


• Riverside Elementary School and Betsy Williamson (Milwaukie) for the creation of experiential “Artful Artists” kits
  


• Creston Elementary and Anne Murphy (Portland) for an Earth Day performance
  


• Marysville Elementary and Barbara Liles (Portland) for song-based picture books
  


• Gilbert Heights Elementary and Kathleen Lower (Portland) for the attendance of a “Go, Dog, Go” theater performance
  


• Woodlawn Elementary and Jeremy Thomas (Portland) for the creation of a garden mural
  


• Aloha High School and Matthew Fox (Aloha) for a Diversity Week documentary
  

Artists for the Arts is pleased to announce our 2007-08 arts education grant recipients.  Each year, Artists for the Arts awards between $8000 - $10,000 directly to Portland-area arts educators, based on proposals for a variety of project and supply needs. This year’s grants, distributed in January 2008 and totaling $8665. 

Grant winners include Roosevelt High School, Rosa Parks Elementary, Bridger Elementary, The Metropolitan Learning Center, Pioneer School, Lewis Elementary, Renaissance Arts Academy, Riverside Elementary, Creston Elementary, Marysville Elementary, Gilbert Heights Elementary, Woodlawn Elementary and Aloha High School.  More information.