Current Projects

Seeds in Springs-Gardening Projects
Seeds in the Springs (SITS) is a youth-centered community based urban agriculture project in Sulpher Springs.

Adult Art Classes

PHOTOSHOP SUMMER CLASSES
July 9th - July 30th, 2009
Thursdays 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
July 11th - August 1st, 2009
Saturdays 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
July 12th - August 2nd, 2009
Sundays 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
$135 PER PERSON
$35 LAB FEE

PRINTMAKING SUMMER CLASS
July 10th - July 31st, 2009
Fridays 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$125 PER PERSON
$30 LAB FEE

DRAWING SUMMER CLASS
July 7th - July 28th, 2009
Tuesdays 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$115 PER PERSON
$20 LAB FEE

PAINTING SUMMER CLASS
July 8th - July 29th, 2009
Wednesdays 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
$115 PER PERSON
$30 LAB FEE

    • Community Stepping Stones

    Saving children, youth, and community lives through the arts and gardening.

     

    OUR MISSION

    is concerned with the quality of life in neighborhoods. We are dedicated to providing education, mentoring children and adolescents, enhancing the community economics, and enriching the quality of life in the community.

     

    WHAT WE DO

    Through the arts we give them their own voice and means of positive exploration and release of feelings. With guidance, we give them the media, and they make the choices on how to use it. It is wondrous to see the tremendous joy in their discovery of mixing colors and applying paint. Everything we do is based on the child's own exploration. This is what dictates our directions in order to help them find their voice and make their choices.

    Through the arts, we change and save children and youth lives by helping them find, develop and respect their voice.

    We expose children to the wonders of communication through the arts. By expanding on their motivation and direction we develop creative and critical thinking skills necessary for them to make positive long-term decisions. We show them a viable choice between short-term theft and drugs or creating life and something worthwhile. We do this through an incentive program they understand. We use a business model. We pay them to learn art skills, to apply those skills to a specific job and then to do the job. For example, our youth took drawing, photography and computer classes; then applied those skills to developing two murals (80'x25') about their community for Rowlett Park. We have developed a number of innovative and award winning programs: •Art Education •Park Development / Service-Learning •Art Businesses •Community Arts.

    Through the arts, we save youth by offering them tangible and viable positive life choices. We give hope and it is this hope that we are asking you, to help support our art businesses.