About A.C.E.S. Contributors Recent News Contact Information A.C.E.S. is Impactful Funds for art education given to A.C.E.S. from people like you, The Montana Arts Council, private families, charitable foundations, and service organizations help to support the activities of The ArtSplot in our community and outlying areas. These include a broader spectrum of programs, projects, instructors, and a widened array of art materials. At our most recent board meeting it appeared very evident that we continue to fulfill our mission with ever increasing conviction, leadership, and enjoyment. • First, we are in demand, active, and hugely appreciated in what we do. • Secondly, our activities meet The Montana Standards For The Arts. They are assessed to continually measure the effects of additional participation in the arts. • Thirdly, and most importantly, we are making a difference! Our numbers reflect our impact. Significantly, in the 2008 / 2009 school year The ArtSplot provided art education to a dozen schools impacting over three thousand students. Many of these classrooms experience art education with us on a consistent weekly basis. Others benefit from special programs that include art installations, beautification and legacy projects, curricula connecting art with other academic areas such as literature and science, and Mother’s Day gifts. Steady funding for art education is much needed. It is very apparent that many organizations helping to fund art education are struggling. It is a goal of ACES to increase our presence. ACES supplements and creates art enrichment opportunities. We provide more breadth and depth to a variety of creative venues stirring deeper interests in the minds of our community. Click here for information on how to donate to A.C.E.S. With the help of individual funding and grants, A.C.E.S. is able to bring the Arts to more schools, more effectively. The following schools received art enrichment and/or artist-in-residencies with us 2009/2010: Whittier, Irving, Anderson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Springhill, Amsterdam, Malmborg, La Motte, Hyalite, Cottonwood, Heck/Quaw, Morning Star, Gardiner. Our presence in the schools varies greatly, from once a week throughout the school year for twelve years at Whittier School, to a Kindergarten through 8th grade Montana Arts Council grant for every Thursday at Anderson, one month long special focuses in drawing empowerment or school wide projects in printmaking, to student ceramic pieces hanging in the halls at new Hyalite Elementary. • Fundamental Montana Standards For The Arts based art education, curriculum connections through science, literature, creative writing, music, etc., special projects in drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, fabric arts, and mixed media, installations, beautification and legacy projects, field trips to onsite locations of natural beauty or quirky interests, and classroom field trips to the studio to use the printmaking press and visit a working artist's studio are some of what happens. • Our busiest week of last school year occurred late in April 2010. It saw us teaching in twenty-six classrooms at eight different schools from 8:45 Monday morning to 3:15 Friday afternoon. • We do partnership programs with Montana Outdoor Science School, The Museum of the Rockies, and Bozeman Public Library. • Montana State University art ed. majors student teach with ArtSplot's Chelsea Smith. Additionally The ArtSplot provides art enrichment opportunities through after school art lessons, “Days For Art” on no school days, over holiday and spring break, for example. We do ten weeks of Summer Art Enrichment Programs. Adult and teen workshops, special events such as “ArtWalks In The City” (Seattle) for youths, and private lessons by appointment, are more of what we do. About A.C.E.S. - Contributors - Recent News - Contact Information