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...
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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...
Thea Foundation
- Nov 5, 2018
- 1 min
Help Thea Restock the Closet This #GivingTuesday
This #GivingTuesday, Thea Foundation and Arkansas teachers have a great need. Just two months ago, we made the big announcement that we...
Thea Foundation
- Aug 30, 2018
- 1 min
Arkansas Teachers Show Joint Exhibition at Thea Foundation
Teachers from schools across central Arkansas will debut a joint mixed media exhibition at Thea Foundation this month. These teachers are...
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...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Alex Kent
- May 8, 2018
- 3 min
The Right Steps: Dance Transforms at Mabelvale Middle
Inside the portable classroom that serves as a dance studio at Mabelvale Magnet Middle School in southwest Little Rock, Kimeka Williams’...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Alex Kent
- Jan 12, 2018
- 3 min
Creative Chemistry: Sylvan Hills Teachers Mix Science with Art
Under a colorful schoolroom ceiling, with a hand-painted periodic table of elements radiating rainbow overhead, close to three dozen high...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Alex Kent
- Nov 20, 2017
- 4 min
Self-Constructive: Working with Power Tools Builds Confidence in Parkview Students
The stage at Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School is abuzz two weeks before the opening of the school’s fall play, Arsenic and...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Katie
- Nov 14, 2017
- 3 min
Laying a Foundation: Local Architect Supported Career with Art
As a teen, Caleb Tyson knew exactly what career he wanted. When he graduated from Jacksonville High School in 2009, he planned to go to...
Stacey Bowers
- Nov 10, 2017
- 3 min
Melting Pot: Little Rock Educator Teaches Science, History Through Pottery
“Awesome feet!” Middle school art educator Jordan Wolf compliments a students on the little clay “feet” she’s added to the bottom of her...
Stacey Bowers
- Jul 7, 2017
- 2 min
Firing Up Fine Arts in Arkansas Schools
Do you know about Thea's Arts Reconstruction program? Through Arts Reconstruction, Thea Foundation implements new and augments existing...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Mark
- Mar 23, 2017
- 2 min
Not Just Child's Play: Creative Collaboration in the Classroom
A group of third graders huddles around a table at Seventh Street Elementary School, their arms weaving over each other and brows...
Thea Foundation
- Mar 20, 2017
- 1 min
2017 Performing Arts Scholarship Winners
More than 160 students from across the state signed up for this year's Performing Arts Scholarship Competition, held Saturday, March 18,...
Stacey Bowers / Photos by Mark Fonville and
- Mar 1, 2017
- 3 min
One Big Way Thea Brings the Arts to Schools Near You
In 2014, Thea Foundation launched a new program, called Arts Reconstruction, to create new and augment existing arts programs within...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Mark
- Feb 22, 2017
- 2 min
Making School a Magical Place to Be
Take a stroll through White Hall High School, and you’ll see it couldn’t be more aptly named. The walls are stark and bare, unless it’s...
Stacey Bowers
- Dec 12, 2016
- 3 min
Building Bright Futures on a Budget
In the fall of 2016, Brad Wreyford, a teacher at Arkansas School for Math, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) in Hot Springs, took his...
Words by Stacey Bowers / Photography by Kat Wilson
- Sep 1, 2016
- 3 min
Art, The Unifier: Rogers Heritage High School Finds Funds to Further an Arts Program that Draws on A
Together, Nakia Brener and Allen Sullivan, both teachers at Rogers Heritage High School in Rogers, Ark., have posted six projects to...
Stacey Bowers
- Apr 4, 2016
- 3 min
Teaching Philanthropy with Puppies and Paint
When Stephanie Darnell, an art teacher at Maumelle Middle School, comes up with a new project she knows will really excite and engage her...
Stacey Bowers
- Mar 30, 2016
- 4 min
For Conway Students, Science is Music to Their Ears
Patty Oeste, a seventh grade teacher at Ruth Doyle Middle School, located in Conway, Ark., didn’t know what to expect when she launched...
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