Our collaborative after-school Art Clubs with the Silvermine Art Center have progressed exceptionally well and are as busy as ever. Images below highlight Silvermine’s signature self-portrait and 3D clay exposure projects with our Carver students.
Since 1992, Silvermine Art Partners Programs have provided curriculum-based arts education for Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Stamford public schools. Serving over 1000 urban youth annually, Art Partners help close Connecticut’s educational achievement gap—one of the largest in the nation—by providing access to the arts and unique enrichment programs explicitly designed to target critical student needs.
For Carver kids, Silvermine Art Partners teaches watercolor and tempera painting, mixed media techniques including collage and oil pastel, and clay projects where students are taught to score and build in 3D. Silvermine’s after-school participants eagerly anticipate their arrival, are determined to complete assignments, and look forward to bringing artwork home to share with their families.
By providing access to arts education and enrichment, Silvermine seeks to improve social-emotional learning and visual thinking while developing life skills that are key to success in school and life.
We are deeply grateful to Silvermine for giving the Carver students at Silvermine, Jefferson, Kendall, Wolfpit, and Brookside elementary schools a chance to be exposed to these critical sequential learning projects.
If anyone wants to inquire about the excellent programs offered by Silvermine Art Partners, please get in touch with Missy Savard, Art Partners Outreach Coordinator, Silvermine Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840, 203.966.9700 x19, www.silvermineart.org.
