ARTreach Programs serving children at risk

Mentoring through Art
ARTreach Mentoring through Arts Programs are facilitated by qualified and professional teaching artists. ARTreach adheres to low student teacher ratio to support higher impact and to provide the attention the children need in order to be successful.

The ARTreach programs are available for all schools or communities. ARTreach Teaching artists are trained to work with at risk youth and all general populations. Schools, libraries and social service agencies that would like to offer a program like this to their students, seniors or clients can apply for ARTreach support. Up to 50% additional support is available from the Texas Commission on the Arts for ARTreach Mentoring through Arts Programs. Grant information is found online at www.arts.state.tx.us

Program Director

Vicki McMillan
STEAM
This is a Master Artist in Residence project that will combine science, technology, engineering ART and math to create a mural or collaborative painting.

Vicki McMillan
A PORT IN STORM
This projects supports juveniles in detention or residential treatment. These are unique collaborative visual art projects that can help students focus on the redirection of their lives to sail towards a positive future.

Vicki McMillan
SM-ART MURALS
6’ to 65’ for school hallways or libraries. These projects will involve the students, the teachers and the community.  SM-ART Mural concepts combine science and math with ART to create a visual art teaching to supporting key curriculum. i.e. Earth Life Cycles, Rainforests.

Vicki McMillan
Out of Africa
Out of Africa is an ARTreach Cultural Arts Program offered as a 6 week art course. Vickie combines her watercolor lessons with stories, music, photos and facts that details Vickie’s own journey as an artist through Africa.  Vickie is teaching applied watercolor techniques while inspiring students to paint African wildlife, Sunsets, indigenous trees.

She introduces creative writing and journaling techniques that explore the unique customs associated with the African people and their culture. The students will create a world tour portfolio and watercolor journal that traces their own unfolding and imaginative journey through this unique country and culture.

Out of Africa supports educational objectives aimed at social studies, world geography and fine arts. The program also supports ARTreach objectives aimed at self awareness, self expression, environmental awareness, cultural differences and social compassion. Vickie offers a similar program based on her Art Journey through the Philippines, Mexico and Thailand. Her mentoring programs are also available for professional staff development.

Reserved Directors

Suzanne Adams
ALL ABOUT YOU!
This is a Mentoring through Art Program that focuses on teaching creative writing and journalism techniques to adolescent girls to build self esteem and self awareness.

Elizabeth Linder
ARTreach Private Studio Program
Elizabeth combines her skills in art teaching and mentoring to offer private land semi private lessons to children of all ages. Scholarships are awarded annually.

Clay Animation Workshops
Students become film producers is this comprehensive clay animation workshop. This program supports social skills/team work/and educational objectives that support language arts, math and science TEKS. Clay Animation is scheduled as 4 workshops and includes materials and offsite editing hours and includes final DVD movies and film awards ceremony.

Kelly Litvak
Tools 4 Teens
Kelly’s background is in professional Scrapbooking and journaling her programs combine art activities and character education. Her unique Tools 4 Teens is a curriculum based program.

Kelly Dillard
Beyond Arts and Crafts
As a teaching artist and mentor, Kelly is able to work with all ages of children and adults to teach watercolor, mix media , ceramics, crafts, printmaking more delivered as a weekly program or 3-days series.

Erin Stanley
BABY DANCE
This is a Nurturing Pathways™ program that combines role modeling and mentoring for young mothers at risk. As a weekly ongoing dance and creative movement program it supports mother/child bonding, health and physical care. 

Lanre Buraimoh
African Bead Painting
This program explores the Yoruba people and the unique Nigerian culture behind this lost art form. Lanre Buraimoh is one of the most versatile artists trained in a modernized version of this West Africa art form. His beadwork, oil on canvas and batik have been featured in some of the top galleries in the world, most notably the Atlanta Via-Mundi Art Gallery, Cary- McPheeters Gallery, Atlanta and other locations. Lanre Buraimoh is a pronounced member of (C.O.P.A.) Confederation of Professional Artists and (O.O.A.A) Osogbo Oroki Artists Alliance.

Carrie Schneider
Masterpiece Art
Carries offers Arts-in-Education workshops and weekly classes that teach art history and the styles of the expressive artists of the 20th Century. Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh to inspire the students to create their own beautiful and expressive artwork. Her programs can be scheduled as one time workshops or set up as a series of 6 week terms. She offers specialized programs for Burmese Refugees that focus on and cultural and educational enrichment.

Danny Russo
Vocational ART and Tee-Shirt Printing
Danny’s printmaking program is offered as a workshop, a festival booth activity or a residency to teach students a vocational skill and technique is silk screen printing for posters, cards or t-shirts. 

Fatima Donaldson
Digital Photography
Creative Director and Photographer, Fatima Donaldson offers weekly or five day sessions to teach aspiring teen photographers (in the making) techniques about lighting, composition and subject.  Each day, the students focused on a particular task, received instruction from Fatima and then spent a few hours mastering the new found skills. The result at the end of the week was a gallery exhibit and slideshow presentation with much admiration from attendees. 

Kenyatta Kelly
ZUMBA Dance and CREATIVE MOVEMENT
For children and teens, This programs focuses on Healthy heArt and physical activity offered through dance

Taylor Dolan
I am the King
Taylor offers camps, Storytelling and theater art classes for children in refugee resettlement. Her programs support reading and language development.

Tess Thornton
Tess offers a variety of clay and ceramic programs on site at the ARTreach Studio in Katy. Her programs include Ceramics 101 for everyone, The Breakfast Club for seniors, and small group lessons and workshop for children and families.

Janet Buller
SONGWRITING
This program is taught by singer and songwriter Janet Buller and allows kids to fully express their feelings through writing music and lyrics, and learn to communicate their thoughts and ideas in a positive, artistic way. Janet facilitates the workshop in a manner that engages the entire class in the songwriting process. She collaborates with other musicians and leads creative exercises that encourages students to journal and share their results.

Terri Bieber
Master Art –Through the Ages
This is an educational program that utilizes master works as the inspiring introduction to basic drawing and painting techniques while incorporating a formal introduction to the history of art. Curriculum incorporates TEKS objectives and is offered as a two-semester course:

Tracing the history of art through a project timeline based on the artists or artwork representative of the art period. The program introduces beginning and advanced drawing techniques, including proportion and perspective. Utilizing and applying several color balance and basic composition theories. Introduces numerous application techniques for various media including acrylic paints on canvas, watercolor, soft and oil pastel, classic resist methods, prisma-color, charcoal and clay sculpture.
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Master Art –Through the Ages will progressively advance the student through the various ages of art by introducing classic periods of artistic styles and then working to create unique artistic interpretations and one-of-a-kind artwork inspired by selected masters from each period.
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This is an ARTreach Arts-in-Education Program that supports home-school, private school and other alternative educational communities. Master Art through the Ages is designed with lessons and special projects to accommodate all ages. Master Art- through the Ages Program syllabus is available upon request.

Mentoring through Art
Whole Child Art, Health and Environment
Combines Mentors and Art workshops embrace the needs of the whole child and teach about nutrition, good food benefits, environmental awareness, health, education and fine art. ARTreach offers a series of creative projects that combine whole health ideas with all kinds of interpretive art processes! These workshops provide educational support for children and families in need.