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.
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| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Kevin Brown | 01/30/2023 | $86.00 | Goal! | Kristin Eyler | 01/24/2023 | $206.47 | The Art Center has been a part of our lives for many years. Being in plays when it was the Art Barn, volunteering as a docent, having our children participate in art classes etc., the list and opportunities go on and on. We are very grateful for everything the Art Center promotes and gives to our community. | Tracy Spoonmore | 01/24/2023 | $51.85 | This sounds like a great program to be part of. I hope you enjoy and learn from it. | Carolyn Glennon | 01/24/2023 | $156.55 | The Quincy Art Center is a wonderful and important part of Quincy’s history and it encourages young members of our community to get involved in the local activities there. |
| Total | $500.87 | ||