About A.C.E.S. Contributors Recent News Contact Information A.C.E.S. is at the Missoula Art Museum Auction A.C.E.S. cofounder Chelsea Smith has had a piece of her own artwork accepted into the Missoula Art Museum Art Auction. Details are available online at the Missoula Art Museum's web-site. The piece is 16x24 inches. The medium is mixed; brick print, lace spray paint, pastel, metallic pencil, acrylic paint. We also have developed this process for multiple platforms for some of the most repeated, coveted, popular, artist-in-residency programs the ArtSplot does in the schools, usually with grades kindergarten through eighth. Chelsea Smith's piece of artwork being auctioned at the Missoula Art Museum this coming January. Chelsea had this to say about her accomplishments with the ArtSplot thanks to the success of A.C.E.S.: The ArtSplot, my creation, has completed over one hundred and seventy-five artist-in-residency programs in the past fifteen years. These programs have ranged from long term (twelve years) to short term visits in regional schools grades K-12 from Gardiner to Great Falls, to Amsterdam, Whitehall, and a one room schoolhouse named Malmborg, etc., etc., etc. ArtSplot projects have included installations, beautifications, legacy projects, drawing empowerment, to ceramics, printmaking, curriculum based fundamental art education, to connections with science, music, creative writing, and literature. Numerous yearly programs have taken participants on artistic field trips to Yellowstone Nat'l Park, Seattle, The Archie Bray Foundation (hence inspiration for this piece of art), numerous sites of natural beauty in the area, galleries, proprietorships, and more inspiring on location, spontaneous, heartfelt artworks. The activities of The ArtSplot and the art instruction provided by myself, artist / art educator Chelsea Smith, have reached tens of thousands of individuals, enriching their artistic knowledge, skills, awareness, and appreciation, thus their lives and communities. Some awesome owls done in the schools and in the ArtSplot studio. Please read about some of our earlier accomplishments. • During the 2008/2009 school year A.C.E.S. is taking a widened array of art materials, including clay, printmaking spray paint, batik fabric art, and acrylic paint on board or canvas, to students of Irving and Whittier Schools, thanks to Sweet Pea Festival of the Arts grant of one thousand dollars. • In the winter and spring months of 2008 we implemented a Montana Arts Council Grant of $4500 for instructional support to Whittier and Irving Schools. • Specially earmarked donations from four private families of $5200 were designated to A.C.E.S. for supporting fundamental/curriculum based art enrichment at Anderson, Hawthorne, and Learning Circle Schools. • We held our 4th annual “Celebrate The Kite” Festival for the Bozeman area in October of 2008, thus raising awareness of A.C.E.S. and its activities through the art, the science, and the culture of the kite. • Monies acquired for A.C.E.S. through the Montana Shares Charitable Giving Campaign totaling close to five hundred dollars were used for scholarship funds towards student art programs. • The local Montana Institute of the Arts granted A.C.E.S. two hundred dollars in scholarships. • Specially earmarked donations were designated to support the first: “ArtWalks In The City”...an artistic trip to the city of Seattle. Seven participants ages thirteen to seventeen spent five days during August of 2007 experiencing the city through the arts. San Francisco is our next goal. • During the 2007/2008 school year art education outreach programs reached the following under served communities: Amsterdam, Malmborg, Mammoth in Yellowstone National Park, Pass Creek, Springhill, Whitehall, and Frenchtown, at low or very little cost to the schools. These programs were funded through private donations, National Endowment For The Arts through The Montana Arts Council, and a follow up donation from the “ArtWalks In The City” funder. • A.C.E.S. received a gift from The Robert and Dana Smith Charitable Foundation of $4800 per year for this year and the following two years to under served school outreach art education programs. This school year of 2008/2009 these funds will serve the following schools: Amsterdam, Whitehall, Anderson, and Springhill. These activities bring a total of approximately sixty - two hours of art education to five hundred and twenty students that might otherwise not happen. Thank you. • A Montana Arts Council grant for instructional support through The ArtSplot brought a widened array of art materials, thus experiences, to Irving and Whittier Schools. • Earmarked donations from private families were, and are currently, designated to support art enrichment throughout the school year at Anderson and Hawthorne Schools. • The Montana Institute of the Arts granted A.C.E.S. monies for scholarship funds to qualifying families for after school individualized art lessons with The ArtSplot. • Our fruit smoothie booth at Sweet Pea Festival For The Arts had its seventh successful summer. • A.C.E.S. received a Sweet Pea Grant for extended art supplies for the eight and eleven years running established art education programs at Irving and Whittier Schools respectively. 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