Our Beneficiary - Art for Kids in Pasco County

Raising funds for the benefit of Art For Kids in Pasco County is a primary goal that this event works towards.  Each year, funds raised will go toward helping the advancement of services for visual and performing art needs of kids in Pasco County schools, both public and private.

Every year at the event, a special container will be in clear sight where visitors are welcome to drop off new art supplies. These art supplies are provided to Pasco County schools, both public and private.

Three Initiatives for 2010 to be unveiled at the Suncoast Arts Fest!

At the 2010 SAF event, we will unveil the three initiatives that this event will work towards for the next year.

1) Our first goal is to form a website built by select students that will be geared towards showing youth where to find college degrees and training in the creative industry fields. In the last year, we have met with well known Florida colleges and other arts partners to form the site. We have also worked with Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts (TBBCA.org), a partner organization that sees the value of the arts in business and community. We are wroking with a website experienced high school student that can help make this site youth saavy and parent friendly and contents will make this site helpful to students and parents looking for resources to help youth. Students interested in this initiative are encouraged to contact Pam Marron at pmarron@tampabay.rr.com regarding this opportunity! 

Initiatives two and three will be unveiled at the Suncoast Arts Fest fine arts show at the Shops at Wiregrass in Wesley Chapel!

The 2009 SAF  funds are being used to promote elementary art where there have been cuts due to lack of funding in Pasco County.

The 2008 SAF raised funds that were used to send fifty 11th - 12th graders to the Ringling College of Art and Design for "Portfolio Day", where 53 national arts colleges review works of aspiring art students in a variety of creative fields.

The 2007 show raised enough funds for five "Art to Go' teaching trunks full of visual and performing arts resources.  These trunks can be used by all Pasco County schools and trunk themes are:

• Modern Art: including books, videos, posters, sculptures and mobiles.

• Printmaking: including books, videos, lesson plans, Gyotaku fish print models, brayers and ink trays.

• Theater: Viola Spolin - Theater Game File, on stage theater games, activities for kids, props (all from Spolin Collection).

• Egypt: Artifacts

• Native American Art 

In 2005, fine artist Christopher Still along with our organization made a presentation of ten of his murals depicting Florida history.  These framed prints along with interactive audio CD’s and teacher lessons were placed in a “traveling tub” that can be used by all Pasco County Schools both public and  private, K-12.  The original murals currently hang in the House of Representatives located in Tallahassee, Florida.  Pasco County school board members, art teachers, students and the public were invited to Longleaf Elementary School for this presentation.