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Press Release
For Immediate Release
January 22, 2003
AWE CONTACT:
Lisa Becker
Executive Director
(414) 933-3877
UWM Art Education Students Bring Art to Children in Parks with Truck Studio
MILWAUKEE, WI. Art Education students Jessica Gharrity, Amanda Neumeier, Christina Pelischek, Michael Pinney, and Noelle Tomczyk worked this past summer with the AWE (Artists Working in Education) Inc. Truck Studio team. UWM Associate Lecturer, Marc Tasman, led a team of Truck Studio interns on a six-week tour of inner city parks delivering art enrichment activities to children who were eager for something to do. AWE Truck Studios are brightly painted trucks loaded with art supplies that offer free art experiences during the summer months to children living in Milwaukee’s inner city. The trucks make scheduled stops in parks and community centers in neighborhoods with underserved populations where children are unlikely to have access to organized summer activities.
The art education interns assisted with instructing children at eleven inner city parks, and at community centers such as the Next Door Foundation and Gingerbread Land. Free art projects for children included making windsocks, plaster face masks, landscape painting, puppets, murals and musical instruments.
The Truck Studio project, now in its fourth year, served over 2,500 children for six weeks, starting July 1 and concluding August 9. The Trucks visited a different site every week, Monday through Friday afternoons.
The Truck Studio is a project of Artists Working in Education, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is provide youth in the Milwaukee area with arts enrichment programs to enhance human potential, advance learning and cultivate community. The Truck Studio project is made possible in part by The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin, Inc., The Milwaukee Foundation, the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation, Forest County Potawatomi Community Foundation, the Windhover Foundation, L & S Research, the Matrix Foundation, the City of Milwaukee Arts Board, the Wisconsin Arts Board, Target, Manpower, Meridian Industries, Orion Corporation, and Herbert Kohl Charities.
For more information, and for opportunities next summer, contact AWE Inc., 2819 W. Highland Blvd., Milwaukee, WI 53208. Or visit our web site at www.awe-inc.org.
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