“With major new funding from a federal agency in hand, a Philadelphia service group in the arts is going national,” writes Peter Dobrin in Tuesday’s (9/12) Philadelphia Inquirer. “ArtistYear has been operating since 2014, placing a few recent college graduates into Philadelphia schools each year as teaching fellows. This year, the program will expand to 25 full-time fellows who will teach music, art, dance, creative writing, and media arts in low-income schools in Queens, N.Y., and Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, as well as Philadelphia. A big boost to the program comes through AmeriCorps, part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which has awarded ArtistYear a three-year, $1.45 million grant…. ArtistYear … leaders call it the ‘first organization dedicated to national service through the arts.’ … Fellows receive a $21,000 stipend, health care, and professional training [plus] student loan forbearance.… The program began as a pilot at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2014 with three alums teaching music in area schools, but has since grown to encompass all the arts and is now its own separate nonprofit organization…. ArtistYear cofounder Elizabeth Warshawer, a Philadelphia management consultant, says the intent is to grow thoughtfully.”
Posted September 14, 2017
Pictured: Young students learn get their first hands-on experience with violin bows from ArtistYear teaching artists at a Philadelphia school
