Time Running Out to Help Brunswick Acres Win $5k Grant
Brunswick Acres Elementary School needs help from the public to win a $5,000 grant from Kris Wine and Americans for the Arts for the school's art program.
Residents have until Oct. 31 to help the art program at Brunswick Acres Elementary School win a $5,000 grant. The Kris Wine and Americans for the Arts are offering $25,000 in grants to support K-12 public school art programs throughout the country. The school with the most votes on the Kris Wine Facebook page will win the top prize of $5,000 and Brunswick Acres is in a tight race for the top spot. "The cost of art materials goes up each year, while the budget for it gets lower each year," said Brunswick Acres art teacher Suzanne Tiedemann in a previous interview. "In other districts the art program is the first to get cut, so we're lucky to be in a district that supports the arts, but we're always looking for a way to subsidize the cost. …
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8:39 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Brunswick Acres is doing great and used innovative ideas to get the community to vote for them and they deserve to win the $5,000 grant. Please note that Greenbrook Elementary School which is in 5th place right now also needs your vote. They are in the hopes of receiving a $2,000 grant from Kris Wine but needs all the votes they can get....support your schools by voting daily until the October … more ›