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Together, Let’s Bring VSA Florida Art Classes “My Art My Way” to Your Community!

Children enjoying an arts experience with paint

 

While moving around their regions, VSA Florida Regional Program Coordinators have heard the outcry for community art classes for children with disabilities.  In our ongoing effort to serve the state with quality art programming for students of all abilities, the push has begun for that request!  This past spring, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties have spearheaded after-school and summer programming for students of all ages.  The program is ready to expand throughout the state, so VSAFL regional coordinators are looking for free space within their territories that can be used to propose this much needed offering.  School multipurpose or classrooms, churches, museums, community centers, university spaces are all options.  We must have at least 5 students in each class for this opportunity to take place.  Each class will be $10 per student, with registration being blocks of 4 classes for $40. Visual, Dance, Music, Performing or Literary arts are all possibilities for the classes. If you are aware of such space or an interested group to attend, please contact your coordinator as we are eager to get these classes started.

 

Jennifer Bonaventura, Region 1                   jennifer@bonavstudio.com

Pat York, Region 2                                      yorkpat51@gmail.com

Anna Preston, Region 3                               ampreston13@aol.com

Heather Spooner, Region 4                          heatherspooner@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kristin Langeloh, Region 5                           kllangeloh@hotmail.com                        

Cost: 
$40/4 week session
File: 
application/pdf iconRegistration and Medical Release Form, MASTER.pdf

$500 - That’s how much it costs to bring an artist into a classroom to electrify the creativity of all students, including those with a disability.
$500 provides an avenue to change teacher attitudes about the abilities of students with disabilities.
$500 offers an opportunity for students with disabilities to change their perception of their own abilities and for their classmates to turn up side down their perception of disability.
Please Donate today.

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Arts for All Lending Program

VSA Florida has a statewide database of art making tools that can be used in the classroom, neighborhoods, parks and recreation sites, or anywhere there is a sidewalk or open space for creating.  Arts for All art tools are one-of-a-kind products that offer individuals of all abilities an opportunity for creative expression through arts and mobility.  Art tools are designed so participants with limited movement or lack of fine motor skills can be successful in using what mobility they have to create, paint, draw, and print.

If you are interested in leasing the equipment for absolutely no cost (only cost is for disposable materials), please contact your regional program coordinator or Wendy Finklea at 813-974-0715 or wfinklea@usf.edu.

 

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