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As public funding for school art programs shrink, we feel the Claremont Museum of Art can fill an important role in providing art education to Claremont youth through our three education projects: Family Art activities, ArtX student art competition and Project ARTstART.

 

I am please to announce the CMA Education Program fundraising drive and hope that you will join us in supporting these projects. A generous donor contributed $10,000 to fund ArtX 2011 and the Spring event was a hugh success. Members of the board have made significant contributions to start our Education fund, we have received two grants from the City and we are in the process of identifying and applying for additional grants. We have recently launched ARTstART and the pilot program will begin in the Spring of 2012.

 

- Sandy Baldonado, CMA Board President

 

Please send contributions to:
Claremont Museum of Art,
P.O. Box 1136, Claremont, CA 91711
info@claremontmuseum.org.

 

Family Art Program
Mary Hughes

The Family Art Program, directed by Mary Hughes, presents creative art activities for children at City festivals. Local art educators and volunteers plan, prepare and guide young visitors in hands-on art projects. It is inspiring to see the hundreds of enthusiastic children filling the seats of the art tables throughout the day.

 

Look for our booth in April at the Packing House, at the Fourth of July Celebration in Memorial Park, at Village Venture and at the Padua Hills Art Fiesta in November.

 

Mary Hughes has been an active volunteer with the Claremont Museum of Art since its earliest days. She has an MFA in Drawing and Painting from CSU Long Beach and BAs in Art and in Communications. She has taught Studio Art courses, Art Appreciation, and Art History at the College level and at the Junior High level for 13 years. She has also taught Art Enrichment Classes to all grades at the Elementary level for the past two decades. As an artist who shows both locally and nationally, Mary works with layering on canvas, paper and silk.

   
ArtX

Student Art Competition
Lori Lama, ArtX

ArtX, directed by Lori Evans Lama, in 2009 and 2011 is a juried student art competition and exhibition. It’s open to students in grades 9 — 12, who live in Claremont and attend public or private school or are home-schooled. This year's ArtX theme was “What Matters?” and winners received cash prizes. Go to the ArtX website to see the full online version of the ArtX exhibitionspotlighting the winners and all seventy-seven pieces of art.

 

As the director of arts education for the Claremont Museum of Art (2007-2009), Lori Evans Lama created the ArtX project for high school students and the aRtPM graffiti art project for middle school students along with a comprehensive menu of public gallery programs. Prior to her work with CMA, Lori was a senior programming staff member at PBS and later a Vice President/Broadcast executive for an international media company. Lori is also an award-winning writer, director and producer.

 
Project ArtstART

Project ARTstART
Rich Deely, ARTstART

Project ARTstART, directed by Rich Deely, trains high school and college students to provide exhibit-based art lessons for elementary school students. By bringing high-quality, art appreciation classes and activities to the Claremont school system, we hope to inspire, promote under-standing of art and highlight Claremont's rich artistic history.

 

We are preparing to launch the pilot program at Sycamore Elementary School in the Spring semester of 2012. Project ARTstART has recruited district high school and college students as teachers and mentors. These ARTstART Teens will be trained as docents to offer multi-visit arts appreciation lessons to elementary students, in the classroom, and in local museum settings. As part of their training, ARTstART Teens will learn about how to plan presentations that employ Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and interact with art educators, artists, curators, and students from the Claremont Colleges.

 

Once prepared for their role, ARTstART Teens will deliver lessons to students related to art exhibitions at Claremont area museums and galleries. The program will conclude with a hands-on art project inspired by the exhibitions, and shaped by classroom teachers, ARTstART Teens, and the elementary students themselves. The program will eventually serve all elementary students in the district.

 

An independent museum consultant with over 15 years' work in the museum field, Rich Deely has worked as an educator in art, history, and science museums in New York, North Carolina, and California. Originally from New York City, Rich has BA degrees in both history and communications from the University of Notre Dame, and a master's degree in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education in Manhattan. He has planned and implemented two successful museum-based youth docent programs, one of which won national recognition through the Coming Up Taller Award for Excellence in Youth Programming in 2007.