The Asheville Area Arts Council gives back about $30,000 annually to arts-in-education programming through grants and programming that support schools, students, teachers, teaching artists and enrich the broader community. The arts-in-education program consists of everything from building and supporting artist residencies and teacher professional development trainings, to developing a directory of teaching artists, to collaborating with the community to put on WORD.07, the first annual county-wide poetry slam for middle- and high-school students.
Randolph Learning Center Principal Gordon Grant shares, “[The] Arts Council residency helped us further our goal of making students think of school as a place that provides them with lots of good learning experiences, not punitive ones. ... projects like this help us move the students’ perceptions of school of a place where they do things, rather than have things done to them.”
On Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. Jonas Gerard, internationally collected artist and local resident, invites the community to his studio at 240 Clingman Ave. to experience his gestural and spontaneous style of painting. The paintings made during this event will then be auctioned to benefit the AAAC’s arts-in-education grant programs. Info: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 258-0710, ext. 103. Membership in the AAAC supports arts-in-education funding and operational expenses.
Other Group Spotlights:
2-1-1 referral specialists | 04/19/2007
AARP Tax-Aide | 02/13/2008
Academic Coach Program | 09/10/2008
Arts 2 People | 07/09/2008
Arts For Life | 03/14/2007
Asheville AIDS Walk 2008 | 10/01/2008
Asheville Area Arts Council | 11/28/2007
Asheville Art Museum’s Pianoforte Series | 01/14/2009
Asheville Chess Club | 01/09/2008
Asheville Civitan Club | 02/06/2008
Asheville Free Book Exchange | 07/16/2008
Asheville MSBL | 04/08/2009
Asheville New Friends | 01/23/2008
Asheville on Bikes | 10/28/2008
Asheville Storytelling Circle | 10/31/2007
Asheville’s farmers markets | 12/03/2008
Asheville-Buncombe Education Coalition | 10/17/2007
AYUSA | 12/26/2007
Beauty Through Cancer | 08/19/2009
Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC | 05/16/2007
Blue Ridge Watermedia Society | 08/06/2008
Brother Wolf Canine Rescue | 01/16/2008
CarePartners Adult Day Services | 08/29/2007
CarePartners Hospice and Palliative Care Services | 06/06/2007
Carolina Actors’ Collective | 01/21/2009
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy | 07/25/2007
Carolinas’ Nature Photographers Association | 05/27/2009
Child Abuse Prevention Services, Inc. | 06/13/2007
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of WNC (CCCS) | 05/30/2007
Council on Aging of Buncombe County | 09/12/2007
Differently Abled News Network, Inc. | 02/21/2007
Dining Out for Life | 04/22/2009
Dogwood Alliance | 03/19/2008
Downtown Asheville Residential Neighbors | 12/17/2008
Early Stage Memory Loss Support Group | 08/27/2008
ECO Water Quality | 07/05/2007
Eliada Homes Inc. | 12/23/2008
Family Support Network of WNC | 09/03/2008
Family Visitation Center | 09/05/2007
Four Seasons | 09/02/2009
Get There Asheville | 09/30/2009
Girl Scouts | 09/24/2008
Goodwill Career Connections Center | 10/15/2008
Helios Veterans Complementary Health Care Program | 02/27/2008
Helpmate | 04/04/2007
Henderson County Animal Services | 11/19/2008
Hendersonville Little Theatre | 02/18/2009
Hot Chocolate 10K and Kids’ Hill Climb | 01/07/2009
Individuals Reforming Ideas to Secure Equality | 03/07/2007
Kiwanis Club of Asheville | 01/02/2008
Leadership Asheville and The New Agenda | 05/19/2009
Loving Food Resources | 07/18/2007
Managua, Nicaragua, Health and Education Center | 03/26/2008
Mary Benson House | 07/22/2009
Meals On Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County | 07/31/2007
Mountin’ Hopes Therapeutic Riding Center | 06/20/2007
National Down Syndrome Society | 10/10/2007
National Parkinson’s Awareness Month | 04/29/2009
No More Victims | 06/12/2008
North Carolina Creative Autistic Living and Learning, Inc. | 07/11/2007
Old Buncombe County Genealogy Society | 10/03/2007
Old Farmers Ball | 12/31/2008
Open Hearts Art Center | 02/20/2008
Panic Fans for Food | 12/12/2007
Paws With A Purpose | 06/03/2009
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute | 11/14/2007
Pisgah Legal Services | 05/08/2008
Primordial Tradition | 03/25/2009
Quality Forward | 06/18/2008
Reuter Center Singers | 01/30/2008
River Link | 04/16/2008
Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation | 10/24/2007
Smoky Mountain Brass Band | 02/11/2009
Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association | 12/05/2007
The Asheville Affiliates | 04/23/2008
The Asheville City Schools Foundation | 03/04/2009
The Asheville Lightning Junior Olympics Team | 04/02/2008
The Asheville Mural Project | 06/25/2008
The Asheville Mushroom Club | 07/30/2008
The Asheville Puppetry Alliance | 11/07/2007
The Asheville-Mountain Area Chapter of the American Red Cross | 06/27/2007
The Association of Retarded Citizens of Buncombe County | 08/15/2007
The Blue Ridge Home School Choir | 11/12/2008
The Botanical Gardens at Asheville | 05/14/2008
The Bountiful Cities Project | 05/02/2008
The Brian LaViolette Scholarship Foundation | 04/01/2009
The Carolina Theatre | 05/23/2008
The Henderson County Senior Softball League | 07/23/2008
The Hendersonville chapter of Business & Professional Women | 02/25/2009
The Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America | 02/04/2009
The Lead Poisoning Prevention Program | 04/11/2007
The Lewis Rathbun Center | 03/21/2007
The Literacy Council of Buncombe County | 05/23/2007
The Literacy Council of Buncombe County | 11/05/2008
The Mediation Center | 05/09/2007
The Men’s Garden Club of Asheville | 03/12/2008
The Montford Park Players | 08/13/2008
The Mountain Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence | 09/17/2008
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program | 02/28/2007
The Shiloh Community Association | 07/02/2008
