Arts Access
ACHF Arts Access
Leonardo’s Basement will build an interdependent relationship with Maxfield Elementary School, a school without an art teacher for at least ten years. Leonardo’s Basement and Maxfield School will constantly evaluate the quality of the partnership looking at both quantitative and qualitative data. 2: Leonardo’s Basement will eliminate the two largest arts participation barriers - cost and transportation - that diverse low-income families face. All activities will be provided to families free of charge at their neighborhood school. Summer enrichment workshops will be held less than one mile away.
Leonardo’s Basement and Maxfield Elementary School collaborated to provide quality arts learning for 185 students, 220 adults and 110 siblings. The project manager maintained close contact with artists to celebrate successes, discuss challenges, and make changes. Artists (3), schoolteachers (11) and administrative personnel (4) from both institutions planned, modified and evaluated the program to meet stated outcomes. Six planning and evaluation meetings were held. The quantitative measures, participation by students and families, was completed by counting students in classes plus adults, students and non-student youth at family events. 2: Leonardo’s Basement provided classes and family events to 515 children and adults without cost, primarily at the partner organization’s site. There was no cost to the school partner, students or families to participate in this project once financial support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Richard M. Schultz Foundation was secured. Eliminating transportation barriers was a modest part of the project. The project manager worked closely with the school principal and Volunteer and Partnership Coordinator to solve summer class transportation issues once they were discovered but participation was still reduced by 60%.
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