Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation Announces School Grants

Many student art projects in Edmonds School District 15 begin with the award of a Visual Arts Idea grant from Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation. Each fall, teachers are invited to apply for financial assistance for visual arts related projects, field trips and curriculum based programming.

Here are the educators who have received a 2011-2012 Visual Arts Idea grant from the EAF Foundation.

Elementary-school projects
Clay exploration experiences with artist Julie Perrine include Lynn Behrendt’s second-, third- and fourth-graders Pottery Explore at Edmonds Elementary School and Mrs. Maxwell’s second-graders Portrait Vessels and Clay Sculpture at Cedar Valley Community School. Brier Elementary’s school-wide Art in Action! program and Cathi Wrolstad and Tanya King’s Expression of Self (six projects for 60 students in second- and sixth-grade at Beverly Elementary will also have support this year.

Other elementary school grants awarded
Karen Wolfe-Fritz, Westgate Elementary, artist notebooks for every student; Mrs. Lockhart, Maplewood PCEP, printmaking; Melissa Marts, Seaview Heights Elementary, school-wide docent program; Johanna Kalmus and the Madrona Integrated Team, Masks/Folktales Come Alive for 54 students; Kim Copeland, Madrona K-8 for Endangered Species Screen Printing with artist Bill Matthews for 55 students; Phil Onishi, Sherwood Elementary, Twisted Musicians for 140 fifth- and sixth-grade students; Peggy Lindquist, Westgate Elementary, for The Leader in Me, 203 students and for Button Blanket (NW Native American Studies) for 29 students; Tim McCarthy and his team at Mountlake Terrace Elementary for Fusing Glass Beginning to Advanced, 60 fourth-graders; Mrs. Berry and Mrs. Tsiakilos for Frog Pond, Mrs. Pendergrass for African Masks, Mrs. Peppin and  Mrs. Morel for Portrait Vessels – all with artist Julie Perrine at Maplewood K-8.

Grants awarded to middle-school teachers and their projects
Aleksey Aluf, Meadowdale Middle School, acrylic paint (mask and mural projects), 200-230 students; and Leslie Dickinson, Alderwood MS Art Program, Fused Glass Experience for All and art materials.

Meadowdale High School awarded with grants
Jill Van Berkom for “Suzy Strelecky in the Classroom and Studio Strobes; D’Arcie Beytebiere, Mixed Media/Plaster and Clay with Judith Bushnell, NCECA (National Council Education for Ceramic Arts) Field Trip and Working Big (large fused glass projects); and Amanda Wood, for Seattle Art Museum Visit and Workshop (Gauguin focus)

Gail Summerfield, Lynnwood High School, received a grant for Drawing and Painting on Fused Glass, and the Edmonds Woodway High School Art Department received its grant for guest artist workshops.

Visual arts education in our community remains a major mission of the EAF Foundation. The Visual Arts Idea Grant program has been providing support for visual arts curriculum in K-12 schools since 1994. For this school year, $13,500 funded 28 projects, five partially and 23 in full.

The success of this EAF Foundation program begins with community support for the annual Edmonds Arts Festival held each Father’s Day Weekend. For more informatio, go to eaffoundation.org.