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How Thea's Arts Reconstruction Enhances Arts Education in Arkansas

Thea Foundation

May 19, 2020
2 min

How Thea's Arts Reconstruction Enhances Arts Education in Arkansas

Beginning in 2014, Thea Foundation initiated partnerships with cultural institutions and arts organizations to amplify existing arts programming in schools. Currently, Arts Reconstruction is our focused effort to help teachers receive professional development. By providing training in new visual arts mediums, Thea Foundation helps enhance lesson planning and subsequently, gives students further exposure to ways in which they can create. In conjunction with the professional de

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SCAD Partnership to Support Arkansas Teachers During Pandemic

Thea Foundation

Apr 8, 2020
2 min

SCAD Partnership to Support Arkansas Teachers During Pandemic

Over the past few weeks, Arkansas arts educators have been at the forefront of our thoughts. Throughout the academic year, one of Thea Foundation's programs (Art Closet) supports teachers through funding art supplies and creative materials, but what happens when educators have to promptly transform their curriculum to online-only? It can be quite the challenge to teach the arts without a physical classroom. In turn, Thea Foundation sought to find a resource to help our state

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Thea Foundation

Mar 25, 2020
3 min

Thea Foundation Receives Research Support from Clinton School of Public Service

This academic year has been a special one for Thea Foundation for many reasons as we continue to serve Arkansas teachers and students through our programs. One particular reason has been the inclusion of research support from a truly impressive team of students enrolled at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. Thea Foundation’s practicum team from the Little Rock-based graduate school has gone above and beyond to help research the impact of our Art Clos

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Thea Foundation Kicks Off New School Year With Funding Over a Dozen Art Closet Projects Statewide in

Words by Amanda Seevers

Aug 15, 2019
3 min

Thea Foundation Kicks Off New School Year With Funding Over a Dozen Art Closet Projects Statewide in

Thea’s Art Closet, a Thea Foundation program which awards funding for art supplies and other creative materials to Arkansas classrooms, kicked off the first week of the 2019-20 school year with disbursing over $10,000 for 14 projects across the state that were matched with other donors, including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This school year, Thea Foundation has $100,000 in available funding for Art Closet projects, which is double the grant money that was offered las

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Q&A: Brianna Peterson, Participating Art Teacher in Thea's Arts Reconstruction Summer 2019 P

Photography by Heather Canterbury

Aug 8, 2019
3 min

Q&A: Brianna Peterson, Participating Art Teacher in Thea's Arts Reconstruction Summer 2019 P

Brianna Peterson, an art teacher at Bryant High School, is the next educator we're featuring in our special Q&A series for participating teachers who learned about cyanotype at UA Little Rock's Windgate Center of Art + Design during Thea's Arts Reconstruction professional development week held in June. With nearly a decade of teaching experience, Brianna shares her enthusiasm for adding a new medium to this year's curriculum and answers passionately about why art is vital for

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Band Builds Confidence, Community and Creativity at Little Rock School

Photography by Alex Kent

Nov 20, 2018
4 min

Band Builds Confidence, Community and Creativity at Little Rock School

It’s game night, and inside the band room at Hall High School in Little Rock, student are buzzing with excitement. Basketball season is starting, and Hall’s brass band is fine-tuning the music they’ll perform to pep up the audience and the players tonight. Band instructor Rojay Moore leads the musicians, stopping them every now and then to pinpoint where they could make changes. “Being in the band helps students develop the discipline needed for success in and out of other cl

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How a School Dance Program Changes Lives with Help from the Community

Photography by Katie Childs

Nov 13, 2018
4 min

How a School Dance Program Changes Lives with Help from the Community

“Students who dance have a reason to come to school,” North Little Rock dance instructor Christen Pitts says. “They can express themselves, get out emotions through movement, their grades are better, and they learn time management skills.” When the morning bell rings, Mrs. Pitts’s students are dressed and ready to warm up. They listen attentively and answer as roll is called, then they get in formation in front of the mirrors that fully surround them, eager for their instruct

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Thea Foundation

Aug 13, 2018
2 min

Thea Foundation to Match up to $50,000 in Grants for Arkansas Teachers

Thea’s Art Closet, a program of Thea Foundation which awards funding for art supplies and other creative materials to Arkansas classrooms, is now open and accepting submissions for the 2018-19 school year, and with $50,000 to award — that’s double the grant money that was offered last school year. Thea Foundation is inviting public school teachers of grades K-12 across the state of Arkansas to submit requests for art supplies and other creative materials to DonorsChoose.org,

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