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ARTcamp 2008 - Around the World With Art
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Travel the continents exploring art from different cultures across the
globe. Create paintings, sculptres, clay figures, masks and more!
Design a passport sketchbook and suitcase portfolio and get ready for an adventure around the world. Art in Action t-shirt provided on the first day of class & don't forget to bring a daily snack.
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| Art in Action Presents Atelier d'Artistes
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Join Art in Action on March 10, 2008 at the Sharon Heighs Golf and Country Club for its annual art benefit. This exciting event benefits Art in Action in its efforts to bring art education back to the classroom. Doors open at 10 am to a live studio of local artists painting portraits, landscapes, still lifes and modern art. Watch painters capture expression, set a mood, and balance an arrangement that you can purchase for your own home. Bid on packages of wine, events, restaurants, and jewelry, or purchase from creative vendors. Join us for lunch and our featured speaker, Laura Regan, as she tells about her experience as a popular wildlife artist. For more information or to receive an invitation, please email Leighna or call 650.566.8339.
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| Local Libraries Feature 4th Grade Art
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The fifth in a series of monthly Art in Action library art shows will feature 4th Grade artwork based on masterpieces by Dali, Matisee, Rivera, and O'Keeffe to name a few. Through March 16, stop by and enjoy art created by our young artists!
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| The Best Art Show
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Back by popular demand! Send your curator to this workshop! Site Coordinator, Lisa Tsuroka from Laurel School will show creative ways to frame children's artwork and demonstrate how to create a beautiful display. A slide show of spring art shows will inspire your curator. Free to AiA docents. To register, please email Leighna or call 650.566.8339.
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| Poll Shows Strong Support for Arts in Schools
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A new national poll done by the Arts Education Partnership found that more than 80 percent of voters think education in "the basics" is not enough to inspire the imagination and the creative, innovative thinking young people will need to prosper in the 21st century economy.
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E-magination is a monthly art resource for parents and teachers using the Art in Action program. To suggest events, submit articles, ask questions or give feedback, contact us on-line or call 650.566.8339.
(C) 2008 Art in Action
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Thank you!
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Thank you to the Salesforce.com Foundation for donating software licenses to Art in Action. We are in the process of updating our database and will be able to run our organization more effectively. We thank Salesforce.com for their commitment to philanthropy.
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Storage Space Available
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Art in Action has 960 square feet of unused warehouse space available for storage. The clean, secure space, located on the ground level, features flexible configuration and an oversized roll-up door. The space is conveniently located just off the Marsh Road Exit on Highway 101 in Menlo Park. We can divide up the space to fit your needs. Please call 650.566.8339 for more information or to view the space.
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Gallery Highlights
Legion of Honor
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For decades, Annie Leibovitz has artistcally captured the icon of popular culture with her award-winning photography. Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 features 200 of these phoros, which subjects ranging from the-then pregnant Demi Moore to Nelson Mandela in Soweto to searing photo-journalism from the siege of Sarajevo and personal photos documenting the birth of Leibovitz's three daughters. As Leibovitz says, "I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assigment work are all part of it."
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Volunteer Spotlight
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Site coordinators continue to amaze us with their energy and commitment to Art in Action. Ma Patapoff, site coordinator at Redeemer Lutheran in Redwood City, loves a challenge! Determined to bring Art in Action to her son's school, she turned her own birthday party into a fundraiser. Now, one year later, Art in Action is being taught in multiple grades, student art is displayed at the Redwood City library, and Ma is planning another creative fundraising event!
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ArtsEd has been monitoring the situation in Sacramento concerning the projected $14 billion deficit in the coming budget year, and how decisions in the coming months may impact ongoing state funding for arts education. This decision making process will involve considerable back and forth between the Governor's office and the legislature's leadership, and may take several months. At certain points along the way, your advocacy and vocal support of arts eduction will be needed. ArtsEd will provide that information in the coming weeks.
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