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
- Cecil Floyd | Art Feeds largest school to reach on a weekly basis! This school is full of super creative artists. At the launch of these programs, we added a wrap around mural to their main hallway full of drawings by the students. If that isn’t a way to start things off colorful, we don’t know what is.
- 600 Young Artists
- 30 minute lesson weekly
- School damaged due to Joplin’s May 22 Disaster
- 100% of students affected by the trauma of the storm
- 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
- Duenweg/Duquesne | One of our newest additions to Art Feeds programs, these students will get their very own Art Pack at the start of school this year and start our lessons with a bang! We can’t wait to see what these artists create.
- 260 Young Artists
- 30 minute lessons
- Ages K-5th grade
- 60% of students relocated or temporarily displaced
- 100% of students affected by the tornado
- Columbia | A bright new addition to our programs in Fall 2012 we are confident in the new artists and new creations we will find in this school. Weekly sessions and Art Packs will soon begin!
- 240 Young Artists
- 30 minute lessons
- Ages K-5th grade
- West Central | A great new Joplin school which will be launching in Fall 2012. We are ecstatic to be a part of West Central’s curriculum, build relationships with the students and see their wildly creative ideas weekly in their sketchbooks.
- 200 Young Artists
- 30 minute lessons
- Ages K-5th grade
- Children’s Haven | One of our favorite children’s organizations to visit outside of Joplin schools. Children’s Haven is a temporary home to children ages birth through 17 years whose families are experiencing a crisis. Children’s Haven provides a safe, secure, home-like environment for children while their families seek the help they need. Through the services we provide, we work to protect children, prevent child abuse and neglect, reduce family stress, and keep families together. Art Feeds provides therapeutic art and creative education in weekly sessions with these little ones, providing them with a comfort away from home.
- 1-12 Young Artists
- 1 hour lessons
- Ages 1-17 years
- 100% of the students are temporarily displaced
- Head Start | Our littlest artists at Head Start North in Joplin love to boogie and learn about new mediums of art each week in our Art Feeds programs. An abundance of hugs and giggles bombard our educators here each week. These are our 3, 4 and 5 year old students, where we are planting the seed of creativity and expect it to grow wildly over their childhood.
- 115 Tiny Artists
- 30 minute lessons
- Ages 3-5 years
- Early Head Start and child care for Joplin area parents
- St. Paul’s Awesome Adventure Pre-School | Part of the littlest artists we work with, although our St. Paul’s students are small in stature their brains are vast with creativity. These little ones love story telling, painting and dancing. It is their favorite when the Art Feeds Mobile Art Center a.k.a Van Gogh comes to party on special occasions. All students have proudly sat in the red velvet captains seat and honked Van Gogh’s horn.
- 180 Tiny Artists
- 30 minute lessons
- Ages 3-5 years
Organizations Art Feeds works with outside of the school system:
| Joplin Area YMCA 100-300 Young Artists |
Boys and Girls Club 80-300 Young Artists |
Turnaround Ranch 65-75 Young Artists |
| Ozark Center For Autism 20-30 Young Artists |
Life House/Artapalooza 5-20 Young Artists |
Joplin Public Library Workshops 20-60 Young Artists |
| KaBoom! Youth Involvement 50 Young Artists |
Joplin’s Third Thursday Art Walk 100-400 Young Artists |