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PRESS RELEASE
July 31, 2003
Contact:
Katie Sproles, (541) 346-0942, ksproles@darkwing.uoregon.edu
UO STUDENTS WILL TEACH ART CLASSES IN LOCAL SCHOOLS
EUGENE-University of Oregon students will teach courses in art, dance,
drama, and music in five Lane County elementary schools next year thanks to
a grant from the Edna L. Holmes Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation.
The $15,000 grant to the University of Oregon Museum of Art will fund ArtsBridge,
the art museum's new education outreach program designed to strategically
respond to the need for arts education in Oregon public schools. The program
will reach more than 500 elementary
students.
The mission of UO ArtsBridge, which is an extension of the nationally recognized
ArtsBridge America program, is to work in partnership with Oregon public schools
to provide high quality arts education to Oregon's K-5 school children. UO
ArtsBridge provides stipends for UO
graduate and undergraduate arts students to teach the arts to K-5 students,
while also providing training for elementary school teachers.
"This grant supports a program that will have an immediate three-fold
impact. It supports UO students, it offers art instruction to Oregon public
school children, and it provides professional development for school teachers,"
explains Lisa Abia-Smith, the museum's director of
education.
The Oregon Community Foundation, established in 1973, manages charitable funds
donated by individuals, families, and businesses to enhance and support the
quality of life in their communities. Today, the foundation's endowment consists
of more than 800 funds with
combined assets of $400 million.
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