Press Release
For Immediate Release
May 2, 2005
AWE CONTACT:
Sally Salkowski Witte
Executive Director
Artists Working in Education, Inc.
2819 W. Highland Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53208
(414) 933-3877
MANITOBA SCHOOL:
Ms. Marybeth Sandvig, Principal
4040 W. Forest Home Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53215
(414) 906-8605
Students Use Art to Resolve Playground Conflict
Manitoba Elementary School students have created a work of
art that will help them resolve playground conflict.
With the help of professional artists Dennis Felber and Eriks
Johnson and Manitoba guidance counselor Kathy Krug, students
created “Peace by Piece,” a cement and glass mosaic
sculpture near the school’s playground. The sculpture
will be used as a space where students can go to peacefully
resolve conflict with the help of peer mediators.
The sculpture will be put in place at about 10 a.m. Monday,
May 16. Parents and community members are invited to celebrate
the completion of the sculpture on Friday, May 20 at 10 a.m.
on the school’s front lawn at 4040 W. Forest Home Avenue.
The sculpture was sponsored by Artists Working in Education,
Inc., a local nonprofit organization, with support from the
Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation.
Manitoba Elementary School is an MPS school that serves about
480 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The school
has had a strong peer mediation program in place for over
ten years and hopes that the Peace Sculpture will strengthen
their existing program and continue to benefit students for
years to come.
AWE, Inc., founded in 1998, is a non profit organization whose
mission is to provide youth in the Milwaukee area with arts
enrichment programs to enhance human potential, advance learning
and cultivate community. Its two main initiatives are the
School Studio, an artist-in-residence program designed to
advance learning through the arts; and the Truck Studio, an
outreach program providing free art experiences for children
in inner city parks and neighborhood centers during the summer
months.
AWE receives major funding from the Windhover Foundation,
Four-Four Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Herzfeld
Foundation, Buck Foundation, A.O. Smith Foundation, the Milwaukee
Arts Board, Einhorn Family Foundation, Bank One, the Joseph
Johnson Charitable Trust, Weiss Family Foundation, Woman’s
Club of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Arts Board. For more information
contact Sally Salkowski Witte, AWE Executive Director, at
(414) 933-3877 or visit www.awe-inc.org
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