Art for City Youth

ArtSpan's Art for City Youth delivered arts education to classrooms at Bessie Carmichael Elementary (BCES) and Marshall Elementary School. The program is comprised of two separate but complementary arts projects: Three-part SF Open Studios Tours and an Eight-week Residency. Seven artists from the SF Open Studios program were contracted as Teaching Artists to meet the goals of the Art for City Youth program.

This program was designed in 2007 in collaboration with Bessie Carmichael Elementary School's principal who desired a program that served every child with repeated educational contact with artist teachers. The overarching outcome is to say that BCES students received deep visual arts education every year.

From January to February 2009, artwork created by Bessie Carmichael Elementary School students during the 2008-2009 ArtSpan Residency Program is on display in the San Francisco Public Library's Children's Section. During the 2008-2009 school year, ArtSpan added Marshall Elementary School to the program.

Click here to donate in support of the Art for City Youth program. A gift of $78 funds the program for one student per year.