Chair Affair Fundraiser raises $3,600
Thanks to the Port Townsend Community - Artists, volunteers, students,families,, businesses, sponsors, and donors for all of your support of the Port Townsend School District Arts in Education Program. The funds raised will support teaching artist residencies in Grant Street School, Blue Heron School and Port Townsend High School.
Our annual sponsor drive is still in progress and donor forms may be downloaded for your convenience. Please click here.
Making Art Happen
Arts in the Schools Program
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Support for our programs is provided by the following organizations.
Fifth grade classroom teachers practice the CBPA's they administer to their students. Spring 09 Professional development led by Meredith Essex, Sponsored by PT Artscape and Washington State Arts Commission.
BEGINNING
In the fall of 1998, a group of interested teachers, school administrators, and community members came together to apply for a grant from WSAC that offered funding for arts in the public schools. Visual arts, music, and drama were offered as electives only in grades 7-12. Limited levy funding supported one-shot arts activities in the elementary grades on a monthly basis. There was not a climate of collaboration between the arts specialists and classroom teachers, and arts lessons were not integrated into the curriculum.
Port Townsend artist, Jesse Watson teaching facial proportions to 4th grade students.
