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"The 'Art room' is one of the few creative safe spaces left where a child cannot be judged or be wrong, especially today where the pressure of “perfection ” is demanded in our technological world. The Art room is a place where a papier-mâché bird can have 3 legs and one eye or where the sun can set in the east. This is why the Rennie Foundation was there as the founding financial partner of AIRS and continues to support AIRS in many ways." Bob Rennie, Rennie Foundation
The AIRS program is made possible through the shared vision, support and encouragement of many partners. It is through the collective commitment and generosity of teachers, artists, administrators, local arts organizations and financial patrons all working together, that seemingly impossible dreams become possible.
Each year our studio residencies are only made possible by the combined contributions of our financial partners and supporters. These include contributions from the Vancouver School Board, private donors, the Rennie Foundation, and partnerships with Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Kwantlyn Polytechnic University.
All of our partners are instrumental in realizing our shared vision of creating equitable, access to the visual arts for all children in public elementary schools.
Our goal to extend the program to increase the number of residencies and expand the program to more schools as additional funding becomes available. Priority is given to schools who do not have the means to support arts programming.
Imagine if artists to create greater equity and opportunity of access to the arts for elementary children in Vancouver.
All donations, large and small are critical for enabling AIRS to continue and to provide dynamic and impactful studio residencies to empower students to become makers and transformers of their world.
Interested in sponsoring a studio residency for a particular school community? Find out more here
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