Wrapping Up a Fantastic Program Year!
ArtSeed’s 2011-2012 programming year was our most successful yet. We served children, youth and their communities through our in-school classes, public exhibitions and events, and Open Studios and private lessons, all of which feed into our unique Studio Apprenticeship Program.
Timely partnerships continue to expand ArtSeed’s reach. Besides collaborations with the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Shipyard Trust for the Arts Open Studios, ArtSpan Open Studios and Pine United Methodist Church, this year we were one of 75 Tribute Partners chosen by the Highway and Transportation District and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy to plan and produce the northern California-wide 75th Anniversary program for the Golden Gate Bridge festivities.
As a program partner, ArtSeed has received substantial visibility through the Conservancy’s website and their “75 Tributes†marketing campaign and social media initiatives, estimated to reach more than one million households in 2012. Our year-end exhibition, 75 Reasons Why We Are The Bridge!, was our most ambitious and well-received show ever. ArtSeed has been asked to present samples from the Thoreau Center exhibition at Fort Mason this coming October.
We look forward to the upcoming 2012-2013 programming year, (our working theme is Art, Food, and Well-being), where we will explore how food production and consumption shapes the world, our communities and our bodies. ArtSeed is already off to a great start with its first full-time Program Coordinator, Charles “Trey†Houston, long-term intern Diane Japadjief, and grant writing volunteer Russell Brent. We are presently compiling a comprehensive Outline of Activities for 2011-2012 that will feed into this programming year’s final report, available on our new website by the end of 2012. Read on for other recent ArtSeed highlights!
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