Supporting airs through financial partnership

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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.