Bring creative, hands-on arts learning directly to your students, in the classroom, and at no cost to families or schools!

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities invites you to apply for a Preschool Partnership Program Grant

This grant has been created to support Pre-K classroom students and educators access enriching creative experiences for a full school year at no cost.  Every $1,000 partnership grant is customizable to each classroom’s interests and needs. This could include Field Trips, Theatre for Young Audiences Performances, and Outreach Programs in visual arts, drama, movement, and music.

Applications will be accepted from April 14 - May 22 for classrooms supporting children in the year before they are eligible for kindergarten including public schools, childcare centers, private preschools, and Head Start programs.

SUBMIT GRANT APPLICATIONS HERE

If you have any questions, please contact School and Community Programs Manager Molly Berger at mberger@arvadacenter.org

Through the Preschool Partnership grant students will access music, visual arts, movement, and drama workshops led by professional Teaching Artists designed specifically for Pre-K learners! This experience supports learning and development in more ways than we can count, but here are a few highlights:

• Drama workshops help children build social skills, support early language development, strengthen perspective-taking skills, enhance executive functioning, and promote reading comprehension.

• Art making fosters creative problem-solving, enhances visual-spatial skills, improves fine motor control, and requires self-direction. Additionally, all visual arts projects are meaningfully connected to literacy through stories closely tied to the artworks created.

• Music education supports foundational math skills, helping children to recognize patterns and sequences. Imagination, cooperation, and listening skills are also applied as students learn about cause and effect, utilize memory, and think abstractly about sound.

• Movement and dance classes improve coordination, flexibility, balance, and gross motor skills, while also supporting confidence, body awareness, and overall wellness.

The Preschool Partnership Program is generously supported by the Puddy Educational Foundation and PNC Foundation!

The PNC Foundation, which receives its principal funding from The PNC Financial Services Group (www.pnc.com), actively supports organizations that provide services for the benefit of communities in which it has a significant presence. The foundation focuses its philanthropic mission on early childhood education and community and economic development.