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Help the Eliot School Re-Open

Support a clean air system, Summer Program for Children, and more...

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Re-Opening Jamaica Plain Ward 19 & the Eliot School Democratic Committee Campaign

YOUR SUPPORT WILL MAKE ART POSSIBLE!

Your investment in the Eliot School makes an immediate impact on our community by providing essential funding for high quality and affordable art, woodworking, and STEM programs that transform lives and enrich our city.

Read below for the various ways your support will impact our community...

To re-opening Clean Air is essential for our tuition-based classes. Members of our wood shop community gathered to discuss the wonderful improvements we’ve been able to make in the schoolhouse and woodshop during closure, and to look forward to upgrades we’ll need to make before we can bring folks back into our space. Board member and architect, Ed Forte detailed two top priorities, clean air and social distancing. A system to ensure clean air exchange and filtration is one step closer to re-opening our doors.

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The Eliot School is also excited to announce that the Summer Program for Children has return 2021! After the unfortunate cancellation of the program last year due to COVID-19, we are thrilled to reopen for a new summer of making and fun.

Each student will explore different themes in a variety of mediums including wood, fiber, paper, and more. Activities will focus on craft, curiosity, creativity, and innovation in a fun and supportive environment. Our summer team includes highly qualified art specialists and teachers who work with us year-round teaching after-school classes or in our School & Community Partnerships.

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Our Teen Bridge program pivoted from in person to virtual learning to be able to connect young people from our community-based programs to the arts and beyond.

A dedicated group of teens from our partner schools participate outside of school time in a year-round, multi-year program combining art education and experience, life skills, mentorship, job training, and employment. Teens collaborate with each other and teaching artists to develop their artistic, personal and professional voice, and their skills. They learn to work as art teachers’ aides and connect with Boston artists and opportunities. Participants help shape the program.

Teens meet on Saturdays during the school year and participate in intensive art experiences during the summer, including summer employment and our annual Artist in Residence program, receiving stipends and wages.

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During quarantine, we partnered with Open Door Arts, and Wheelock Family Theatre to support teaching artists through a summer intensive professional development series called Supporting the Processing of Experiences through the Arts during COVID (SPEAC) that specifically caters to the current needs of K-12 students and teachers.

SPEAC was a 4-week summer intensive designed to prepare teaching artists to guide students through online and in person arts education that effectively supports students to process and express their lived experiences due to the current health crisis, ongoing racial injustice, and the racial awakening and opposition in society, therefore working toward personal and community transformation. This and other Professional Development workshops are offered at the Eliot School.


Learn more about the ways we inspire lifelong learning in craft and creativity at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts by visiting our website, click here.