Instilling Confidence, Joy, and Resilience Through Art

Funded Feb 8, 2022

Thank you so much for donating to our project!! With your funding we were able to get aprons, desk easels, acrylic paints, brushes, paint pallets, and brush basins. We used donated canvases and painted to our hearts' content. Students enjoyed the time we spent painting. They were excited and quietly focused. They were engrossed in creating and expressing themselves. They relaxed and fell into the work. To see the confidence and joy build in the students as they worked was powerful and authentic.

As Thomas Merton said, "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." We lost ourselves in the project, found ourselves in the expression, and found peace with each other as we worked.

Thank you for providing students with the opportunity to express themselves. This project won't likely be forgotten.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Williams