New Partnership: Arts for Learning and the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta

Arts for Learning Program Breaks New Ground

Boy's & Girls Club, Mary Moya and Teaching Artist, Roberta Stutzman

Young Audiences' Arts for Learning Program breaks new ground by starting off the 2011-2012 program year collaborating with the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta. The after school program at both the Lawrenceville Center (Lawrenceville) and A. Whorley Brown (Norcross) will feature an Arts for Learning Residency in October and early November. One day a week for 6 weeks, students in grades 2-5 will create an individual collage representing their own interpretation of the qualities of a hero as described in the featured story. They will share their experiences in this work with an invited audience. The weekly classes are taught by an Arts for Learning Teaching Artist with the support of the Boys & Girls Club's Education and Visual Arts staff.

RECOGNITION FOR ARTS FOR LEARNING SUPPORTERS

Woodruff Salutes & Arts for Learning Supporters

The Arts for Learning Program congratulates Elizabeth Eppes and Roberta Stutzman for being among the 2011 Nominees of the Woodruff Salutes. The Woodruff Salutes Georgia Arts in Education Leaders Recognition Program is designed to promote the value of the arts in education through recognition, cultivation, and engagement of leaders throughout Georgia who have championed and demonstrated the ability of the arts to positively impact the lives and learning of young people in grades Pre-K through 12. The honorees are chosen for their exemplary leadership in arts education and their impact on the community, state, and discipline they serve.

Elizabeth Eppes is the Coordinator of Visual and Performing Arts with the DeKalb County Schools. The strength of Elizabeth's early program vision served as a catalyst for the collaboration with Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center that brought the Arts for Learning Program to the DeKalb County Schools.

Roberta Stutzman is a former Art Educator at Rainbow Elementary School in DeKalb County and the 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year for Rainbow. Roberta is now a Teaching Artist in Young Audiences' Arts for Learning Program.