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The CAA Supports Students in Walton County

The Cultural Arts Alliance believes that educating children in the arts is crucial to their academic and individual development. Unfortunately it is getting increasingly more difficult for educators to supply their classrooms with their ever growing needs while funding is being cut so drastically. The Cultural Arts Alliance is trying to help enrich the lives of students in Walton County through the arts. Each year the CAA provides assistance through our Teacher Mini Grants and Need-Based Student Scholarship Programs to teachers and students in Walton County.

This quarter, the CAA is proud to have provided grants to the following teachers: Nora Baldwin from Freeport Elementary in Freeport, Cathy Drake from Maude Saunders Elementary in DeFuniak Springs, Kathy Harrah from Maude Saunders Elementary in DeFuniak Springs, Sissy Keppel from Wise Center in DeFuniak Springs, Constance Rogers from Butler Elementary in Santa Rosa Beach, and Donna Standley from Maude Saunders Elementary in DeFuniak Springs. The Cultural Arts Alliance would like to encourage all teachers with specific needs for their students to apply for our grants and scholarships. For details about the grant and scholarship programs please visit the CAA website.
We have some very talented and creative students in Walton County and we wanted to take this opportunity to show off some of the artwork that was created as a result of one of our grants. The first photo above is of the final product of a long lesson on habitat and creativity. Students drew and painted the animals and then learned the art of collage where they put it all together to create a large African habitat collage. The next photo shows a lesson where the students created crazy bird paintings. These painting are creative and imaginative and the added feathers lend an extra special touch. The students also studied the first artists of prehistoric times and recreated cave paintings with oil pastels on heavy brown paper. This class is a student favorite and last photo is an example of their work from a super talented student.
The purpose of the Teacher Mini Grants and Need-based Student Scholarship Programs are to enhance the visual, literary, and performing arts experiences of all Walton County school-age children in grades K-12. This includes children in public schools, Private 501c(3) schools and home schools through funding of special enhancement activities established by a teacher. Each teacher selected for a mini-grant will be awarded up to $350 and each need-based student selected for a scholarship will be awarded up to $75 per child for each program. Grants and Scholarships are awarded quarterly by the CAA Educational Giving Program Committee and CAA Board of Directors and presented to the teacher conducting the special enhancement activity. For details about the grant and scholarship programs please visit the CAA website.