Thea Foundation Announces $50,000 Challenge Match With Support From Windgate Foundation
Thea Foundation will launch its $50,000 Challenge Match with support from the Windgate Foundation on Tuesday, May 5. For several weeks,...
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Thea Foundation
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
Thea Foundation Receives $10,000 Gift From New Argenta Neighbor First Orion
Thea Foundation announced today that it has received a $10,000 gift from First Orion, an industry-leading telecommunications company soon...
Words by Amanda Seevers / Photography by Tanja
- Nov 22, 2019
- 3 min
Art Is Sew Awesome at Clarendon Elementary School
Supporting Arkansas teachers at the elementary school level is an important element of Thea’s Art Closet program. Last month, we drove a...
Words by Amanda Seevers / Photography by Tanja
- Nov 22, 2019
- 3 min
Equipping Young Printmaking Professionals at Robinson High School
Last month, we stopped by Christopher Swaty’s art classroom at Robinson High School in Little Rock. Christopher received his second...
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,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Stacey Bowers / Photography by Mark Fonville
- Mar 16, 2017
- 2 min
Shaping Young Minds: How a Little Rock Teacher Funds Sculpture in the Classroom
Elena Petroukhina, an art teacher at Mann Arts Magnet Middle School in Little Rock, is a Thea’s Art Closet veteran. Over the years, she’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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