After three long years of planning and fundraising, cARTie is set to pilot this Fall. Recently, the non-profit purchased a bus that will serve as a mobile museum, traveling to elementary schools across the state, with hopes of bridging the gap in education and arts access for children in CT. With just months to go, the organization is in need of final funds to fuel up its bus and bring its carefully-curated, highly interactive exhibition design to life.
The project’s organizers are calling on the community to join this initiative by donating to a crowdfunding campaign or volunteering in the effort. If the campaign raises $3,000 between August 15th and 31st, the project will receive a matching grant of $3,000 from Sustainable CT’s Community Match Fund, which is an innovative funding resource for public, community-led sustainability projects. For project details and to donate, please visit: patronicity.com/one_final_push_for_cartie
“We’re ecstatic to see our cARTie museum bus coming together and getting ready to travel to 13 elementary schools across the state this Fall. This final push in fundraising is crucial, and we’re counting on our community to help us bring the myriad benefits of museum-based learning to more than 1,000 PreK‑2 students this first pilot year, alone.” said Executive Director, Clare Murray.
cARTie is Connecticut’s newest (and only!) non-profit mobile art museum featuring art by a diverse representation of high school students from across the state for interactive and participatory engagement by PreK‑2 students with limited access to the arts in education. With this, cARTie is poised to make a unique contribution to the educational landscape in Connecticut, thereby catapulting the place of the arts in developing our students’ critical and creative thinking dispositions.
Sustainable CT is an initiative of Eastern Connecticut State University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy that inspires, supports, and recognizes sustainability action by towns and cities statewide. The Community Match Fund — supported by the Smart Seed Fund, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and the Connecticut Green Bank —provides a dollar-for-dollar match to donations raised from the community, doubling local investment in projects. Anyone can lead a project and ideas can be proposed at any time.
“Through the Community Match Fund, we aim to put residents at the forefront of creating positive, impactful change,” said Abe Hilding-Salorio, community outreach manager for Sustainable CT. “Match Fund projects are community led and community funded, demonstrating the power of people working together to make change in their communities.”
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