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Art Feeds Programs

Art Feeds builds sustainable programs in the schools we reach. Our Mobile Art Center comes to each school on a weekly basis for a 30-60 minute session with the entire student body of each school we reach. These weekly programs occur throughout the entire school year. This allows us to know and understand the student’s needs and build the best relationship possible for the success of our therapeutic art and creative education programs. We provide an art pack with essential artist tools to each child at the jump start of each program. Art Feeds also provides all supplies, education and curriculum to the schools, teachers, parents and students free of cost. Take a look at a few of the schools we currently reach. If you are interested in Art Feeds programs coming to your school or children’s organization, email meg@artfeeds.org

  • Beacon | Alternative School located at Roi S. Woods Campus in Joplin. We spend one hour creating with these little ones weekly. They have a wonderful attention to detail in their projects, and thrive on the masterpieces that take some time. These designers recently created their own interpretation of the iconic Restore Joplin shirt, which now can be found at www.RestoreJoplin.org and contributes directly back to our programs.
    • 50 Young Artists
    • 1 hour lessons
    •  Ages 5-18 years
    • Home to special needs, behavioral disorder and severely autistic children
    • In 18 Districts in the Southwest Missouri Area

  • Emerson | Art Feeds reaches Emerson at its new home in Duquesne. This school is budding with artists who can’t stop sketching in their Art Feeds notebooks. A diverse group of students that display resilience in the wake of the storm. We are inspired by their excitement to create and transparency through their artwork.
    • 300 Young Artists, Ages 5-11
    • 30 minute lesson weekly
    • School relocated due to Joplin’s May 22 Disaster
    • 70% of students displaced
    • 100% of students affected by the trauma of the storm

  • Irving |Our shining stars, thriving in their new home at Irving-ton. Our most recent major project with these little ones was the Restore Joplin project where the students sketched one building they’d like to rebuild, then brought their buildings to life with paint, cardboard boxes and creative minds. The students created the New Joplin with new schools, homes, hospitals, wacky fun houses and more.
    • 250 Young Artists, Ages 5-11
    • 30 minute session weekly
    • School Relocated due to Joplin’s May 22 Disaster
    • 90% of students displaced
    • 100% of students affected by trauma from the storm

  • Royal Heights | Where Art Feeds first began, Royal Heights has many of our most special students. We have been able to watch them grow over the past three years since Art Feeds inception. These students have written stories, been super heroes, Michaelangelo’s, created comics, thrown paint like Jackson Pollock and grown through creativity and expression.
    • 10 young artist
    • Ages 5-11
    • 30 minute session weekly

  • St. Mary’s | Joplin’s local Catholic Elementary, these uniform clad little ones have no problem spreading paint, sculpting monsters, or creating new maps of Joplin. We are always anxious to see what these kiddos come up with during our weekly curriculum. When Art Feeds leaves the premises, most beg for five more minutes or to return later that week.
    • 250 Young Artists, Ages 4-11
    • 30 minute session weekly
    • School and church destroyed relocated due to Joplin’s May 22 Disaster
    • 35% of students displaced
    • 100% of students affected by the trauma of the storm

  • Touch of Life Kids, Ghana | Our vibrant Ghanaian little ones have survived the most atrocious form of trauma: slavery from as young as four years old in the fishing industry on Ghana’s Lake Volta. Our amazing partners, Touch A Life Foundation and Pacodep work diligently to rescue the children from slavery and provide a holistic form of recovery with a new and loving children’s home as well as mental and physical recovery. Art Feeds provides therapeutic art and creative education as an avenue of expression to the children to allow the children to grow emotionally into strong men and women for Ghana’s future. Art Feeds, in conjunction with Connor’s Song and Touch A Life Foundation, has committed to building an Creative Art’s Center on Touch A Life’s new facility in 2012.
    • 90 Students
    • 1-3 hour sessions each weekend
    • 100%  of the children are survivors of slavery
    • Ages 4-15

  • Village of Life, Ghana | A community of children in northern Ketteh Krachi off Lake Volta in Ghana, Village of Life Academy is setting the standard as the best primary school in the area . These children are wild and hungry for new forms of art and education. Art Feeds provides bi-weekly lessons to the students free of cost to the academy, parents and students. Village of Life also contains a children’s home for youth 12-18 rescued from slavery on Lake Volta. These students are active in Village of Life Academy and vocational training programs. Art Feeds provides individual therapy for these students.
    • 300 Students
    • 45 minute session bi-weekly
    • 30% Rescued from slavery
    • 90% Living in an impoverished household
    • Ages 2-18