What Do Friends Mean To The Program?
Arkansas Learning Through The Arts offers the programs for the schools at affordable rates. The production costs include the artists’ expenses (at the Arkansas Arts Council rates for their Teaching Artist Roster), development and printing of Student Journals and teachers’ Lesson Planning Guides, related books and all the logistics related to planning and delivering the workshops. Without external funding, schools have to shoulder the entire expense. Most can manage a couple of workshops, but not necessarily for all grade levels. Some schools have government funding that helps, but others do not qualify because of the student profile.
The target for scheduling programming is to have two programs a year, per grade level. Depending on whether the arts program is 2, 3 or 4 – 50 minute sessions, the cost could vary from $200 to $350 per classroom session, generally for 25 students. The target for ALTTA is to provide some form of external funding that can defray at least half the cost.
Here is an example of what your support can provide for students (if schools pay half the cost):
| Picasso | $100 | Provides a classroom 2 sessions of an arts programing for | 25 students |
| Joplin | $300 | Provides 3 classrooms 2 sessions of arts programing for | 75 students |
| O’Keefe | $500 | Provides 5 classrooms 2 sessions of arts programing for | 125 students |
| Beethoven | $1,000 | Provides 10 classrooms 2 sessions of arts programing for | 250 students |
| Shakespeare | $3,000 | Provides 30 classrooms 2 sessions of arts programing for | 750 students |
Schools have been enthusiastic about the programs and are eager to schedule as many programs as they can afford. They have been inventive in search of available funding within their budgets, but they need your support.
