Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will expand its ongoing partnership with economically underserved elementary schools and community organizations in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington and Feltonville to continue providing free arts-based educational programming to educators, students, and families. The academy will hire two part-time art educators and add a fourth partner school to the existing year-round bi-lingual services it provides, which include student field trips, teacher professional development, community and parent workshops, virtual tours, and family festival events. Program participants, the majority of whom are newly immigrated to the United States, will gain literacy, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence skills through flexible, responsive learning opportunities that are designed by and for the citizens themselves.