Argy’s Arts Blog

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• 1    shanna wheelock // May 16, 2007 at 4:10 pm

  I send press releases to the local papers for all our art shows or any school art news in general, and keep the school website provided with art info and photos. We get a lot of publicity. Also, made a (brochure) that included a flat card handout from Maine Arts Commission on value of arts in education - and used it as a plea for donations. We rasied enough money to buy a kiln! For this year’s student art show, I put together a newsletter about the year’s art accomplishments. Also , I show student art annually at the community library. The art program gets increasingly more community support /donations as the years pass by. I think the newspaper publicity is the most effective.

• 2    Jody Dube // Nov 13, 2007 at 2:32 pm

  We art faculty at Lewiston High School send out press releases whenever possible to publicize student achievement. We create an end of the year Art Dept. newsletter that comes out the same week as our Celebration of the Arts Night. We’ve created an Art Dept. website, http://www.lewistonhighschoolart.com and a blog spot that’s open to the general public, http://www.lewistonhighschoolart.blogspot.com . We send district-wide emails w/images of recent works and make our studio classrooms places where school committee members, our superintendent and city council members are always welcome as guests. We’ve had parents, senators, representatives and mayors down here checking out student work. We enter student work into regional and national competitions & celebrate their many successes.

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