Participants in the 2022-2023 Arts Leadership Academy are raising funds for the Starting with Art Initiative (stART). The State of Illinois does not currently require visual arts education for grades K-3rd. As a community-focused Art Center, they bridge that gap by supplying schools with standards-based lesson plans and art supplies that meet grade-level expectations. Teachers are given instruction from the Art Center on how to complete the lesson so that they may present the lesson to their students in their own classrooms. The Starting with Art Initiative (stART) comes at no cost to the teachers, students, or school districts. The Art Center annually serves over 2,000 K-3rd students with this program. With appropriate funding and support, the Art Center intends to expand the program this year to better serve the surrounding Illinois counties (rural Adams, Pike, and Brown) and school districts outside of Quincy. This expansion should more than double the numbers by Spring 2023.
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Blake Scheer | 05/04/2023 | $103.39 | Karl Warma | 04/28/2023 | $20.00 | Signe Oakley | 03/29/2023 | $100.00 | Signe Oakley | 03/22/2023 | $100.00 | Dan Selby | 03/15/2023 | $50.00 | Judy Siebers | 03/15/2023 | $50.00 | Katie Ambler | 03/10/2023 | $50.00 | Thank you for participating! | Ginger Schreck | 03/10/2023 | $20.93 | you are a great artist, so glad you have this program Love Gram. | The Brown Family | 03/09/2023 | $125.00 | We are very proud of you doing this program for the art center and our community. | David Oakley | 03/09/2023 | $100.00 | Hi Sydney, Thanks for the call. We appreciate your fundraising efforts for Quincy Art Center. Keep up the great work. Dave & Theresa Oakley | Robert Cane | 03/08/2023 | $100.00 | Good luck, Sidney. Appreciate the call and information! -Rob | Heidi Holzgrafe | 03/08/2023 | $50.00 | Thank you for your support of the Art Center. | Beth Deters | 03/08/2023 | $100.00 | Heather Schreck | 03/08/2023 | $25.00 | Ann Titus | 03/08/2023 | $103.39 | Thank you for calling me! And thank you for helping the Art Center bring more art to this community! |
| Total | $1,097.71 | ||