Art for City Youth

ArtSpan Now Hiring Teaching Artists:

ArtSpan is hiring Teaching Artists for the 2010-2011 school year. Click for info and to download the application.

ArtSpan is pleased to announce that both ACY supported schools had artwork displayed at the Young at Art Festival at the de Young Museum May 8-16, 2010.

Bessie Carmichael Elementary School will have a Totem Pole special group project from Dr. Alcaide's 5th grade class, under the artistic direction of Beryl Landau.

Buena Vista Elementary School will have 6 entries of Bas Relief Sculptures from Jeanna Chavetta's 5th grade classes, also under the artistic direction of Teaching Artist of Beryl Landau. Buena Vista will additionally have 8 entries of paper mache Fantasy Animals from Antoinette Marquez's 4th grade class, under the artistic direction of Rob Lowrey.

Bessie Carmichael's Arts Coordinator Irene Aragon and Principal Jeffrey Burgos; Buena Vista's submissions to the Young at Art Festival. 

The ACY program is comprised of two separate but complementary arts projects: an Eight-week Residency in the Spring and the Three-part SF Open Studios Tours in the Fall. Seven artists from the SF Open Studios program were contracted as Teaching Artists to meet the goals of the Art for City Youth program.

ArtSpan has worked with Bessie Carmichael Elementary School for the past six years.  Principal Jeffrey Burgos and Arts Coordinator Irene Aragon are devoted to ensuring that arts have a place in the curriculum. With their help and guidance, ArtSpan continues to grow and develop the Art for City Youth program. The overarching outcome is to say that BCES students received deep visual arts education every year.This level of comprehensive arts programming would not be possible without Bessie Carmichael's unwavering commitment and the support of ArtSpan donors and members.

ACY Calendar 2010-2011

September 2010
Pre-Visits to classrooms by ArtSpan Teaching Artists at Bessie Carmichael and Buena Vista Elementary Schools.
 

October 6th – October 22nd, 2010
Docent Tours of the SF Open Studios Exhibition with classrooms from Bessie Carmichael and Buena Vista Elementary Schools, 10am – noon, Monday – Friday.
 

Mid-October – November 19th, 2010
Post-Visits to classrooms by ArtSpan Teaching Artists at Bessie Carmichael and Buena Vista Elementary Schools.
 

January/February 2011 – April 2011
8-week Residencies at Bessie Carmichael and Buena Vista Elementary Schools.

April – May 2011
Submission of the 8-week Residency art projects to Young at Art Youth Festival.

May 2011
Reception at Bessie Carmichael Elementary School

Click here to donate in support of the Art for City Youth program. A gift of $78 funds the program for one student per year.

Click here to see a conversation between Board Chairman Mike Yochum and Program and Event Director Jennifer Mullen about the Art for City Youth program.

Schools interested in working with the Art for City Youth program should contact Jennifer Mullen at jmullen@artspan.org

SF Open Studios Artists that are eligible to apply to the program will receive an e-mail with a link to the application in early summer 2010.