Educator Project Grants
Educator Project Grants provide educators with funding to design and implement arts-based learning projects that fulfill curriculum goals in collaboration with pARTners-approved artists. All artist planning and teaching time, as well as project materials, are funded by pARTners. pARTners served 400 students this year through the Educator Project Grants program.
Art Kits-Art and Literature
School: JHHS
Collaborating Organization: Wonder Institute
Number of students served: 50
Grant award: $570
Watercolor Workshop
School: C-V
Teacher: Tonia Ralston
Artist: Emily Boespflug
Number of students served: 25
Grant award: $415
Halloween Community Project
Collaborating Organization: Amy Ringholz
Grant award: $125
Bread and Puppets
Collaborating Organization: Center for the Arts
Grant award: $500
Illuminated Letters
School: Home School
Artist: Abby Paffrath
Number of students served: 5
Grant award: $140
Charcoal Portraits
School: Mountain Academy
Teacher: Heidi Kohler
Artist: Shannon Troxler
Number of students served: 35
Grant award: $200
Juxtaposition Photoshop Project
School: Mountain Academy
Teacher: Heidi Kohler
Artist: Aaron Linsdau
Number of students served: 35
Grant award: $500
Recycling Mural
School: Mountain Academy
Teacher: Heidi Kohler
Artist: Wendall Field
Number of students served: 40
Grant award: $1,400
Ceramic Identity Masks
School: Mountain Academy
Teacher: Heidi Kohler
Artist: Sevi Hagen
Number of students served: 40
Grant award: $300
Calendar Project
School: JHMS
Teacher: Morgane Boag
Artist: Cheri Witz
Number of students served: 5
Grant award: $180
Hoop Dancing Performance
Schools: 2nd grade CES, JES, KES, MMES, WES
Artists: Jasmine Bell and the Bear Singers
Number of students: 200
Grant award: $2,250
Summit High School Rock Band Equipment
School: SHS
Number of students: 20
Grant award: $1254
Arts education cultivates artists and patrons.
“Arts education in childhood is the most significant predictor of both arts attendance and personal arts creation throughout the rest of a person’s life.” (RAND Corporation, Cultivating Demand for the Arts, 2008)
Past Educator Grants
Poetry with Matt Daly
School: Jackson High School
Teacher: Michelle Roundy
Artist: Matt Daly
Grant Award: $200
Students Involved: 95
Young Authors Workshop
School: Mountain Academy
Teacher: John Williams
Artists: Mari Allan Hanna
Grant award: $550
Students Involved: 26
5th Grade Symbolic Portraits
School: Colter Elementary School
Teacher: Heidi Thompson
Artist: Billi Harrington
Grant award: $425
Students Involved: 77
Picasso Self-Portraits and Elements of 3D Design and Construction
School: JH Homeschool
Artist: Billi Harrington
Grant award: $430
Students Involved: 15
Mountain Academy Mural
School: Mountain Academy
Teacher: Heidi Kohler
Artist: Abby Paffrath and Ben Roth
Grant Award: $1,000
Students Involved: 25
Photography Workshop
School: Mountain Academy
Teachers: Heidi Kohler
Artist: Shannon Corsi
Grant award: $140
Students Involved: 32
Exploring Weather through Art
School: Jackson Elementary
Teacher: Kindergarten Team
Artist: Billi Harrington
Grant award: $500
Students Involved: 50
The Art of Illustration
School: C-V Ranch
Teacher: Tonia Ralston
Artist: Nate Bennett
Grant award: $325
Students Involved: 34
Developing Communication Skills through Artistic Engagement
School: Jackson Middle School
Teacher: Morgane Van Voorst
Artist: Billi Harrington
Grant award: $250
Students Involved: 12
Journal Cover Project based on the Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye
School: Jackson High School
Teacher: Julie Tomich
Artist: April Landale & Billi Harrington
Grant award: $1,800
Students Involved: 125