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Access Arts 50th Anniversary Year2021 marks 50 years since Access Arts was founded, and we intend to celebrate this significant accomplishment all year long! Join us in our festivities and look back on what things were like 50 years ago when we first began. Below you can find what we will focus on each month, and how we plan on celebrating throughout all of 2021. You can also join our special donor program for the anniversary year, 50 in the 50th, and help us get closer to our long-term goals.
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JUNETHEME: Evolution of our Facilities THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): Glaze Workshop! EVENT(S): Summer Art Sale here at 800 Moss St. - June 20th from 11am - 4 pm FOR FUN: Big Surprise! Stay tuned... JULYTHEME: Clay over the Years THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): TBD EVENT(S): Visiting Artist Workshops! FOR FUN: TBD AUGUSTTHEME: Weaving over the Years THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): Community Weaving Project - Towels: A Personal Statement EVENT(S): TBD FOR FUN: TBD SEPTEMBERTHEME: The Many Hats THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): TBD EVENT(S): TBD FOR FUN: Accepting applications for Board Membership OCTOBERTHEME: Residency (Artist in Residence) THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): TBD EVENT(S): Unfortunately, CelebrARTy will not be taking place this year :( FOR FUN: TBD NOVEMBERTHEME: Thankful for You THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): TBD EVENT(S): TBD FOR FUN: TBD DECEMBERTHEME: The Next 50 Years THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): TBD EVENT(S): Exhibition of a special project our kiddos have been working on... FOR FUN: TBD |
During our 50th Anniversary year, we are taking the chance to not only look at our past and the history of our organization, but are also looking to our future. To ensure that Access Arts is thriving 50 years from now, we’re embarking on a campaign for a new facility. Our ultimate goal is to purchase a building suitable for conducting classes and workshops at twice the capacity that we currently do.
To help us work toward all of our long term goals, we are launching this 50 in the 50th Campaign - where we are asking supporters to commit to giving $50 each month of 2021. Ten of those dollars will be directed towards our regular operating expenses, while the remaining $40 will be deposited in a Building Fund, creating a nest egg for our future plans. We are going into 2021 energized and ready, with the comfort of knowing that art has helped us through all of the difficult times before and will continue to comfort us as we step into the unknown of the future. We want to continue to bring that comfort, creativity, and healing to Columbia for many generations to come, and hope you will help us reach that goal. Here’s to 50 in the 50th, and here’s to a much better year to come! Use the button below to select your $50 monthly donation, and be a major part of the future of Access Arts! 
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JANUARYTHEME: Early History
THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): 6-week youth classes Recording Our Realities & Here and There and Back Again EVENT(S): 2D Paper Design (Collage workshop) - Sun, Jan 17th! FOR FUN: Letter Writing Project! (See below) Also check out our social media for posts about our early history! (FB & IG)
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Letter Writing ProjectHow do you change the world?
Hurst John may or may not have asked himself this question back in the ‘60s, when he first imagined a place for his son and others with disabilities to learn and socialize together. We can’t know all the thoughts that went through his mind. But we do have record of some thoughts he shared with others. Letters like the one below give us insight to his thought process and show us where it all began. He set out to change things, and his first step was writing letters to his friends. We’re all a bit weary of screens, are we not? Zoom meetings, doom scrolling of social media, quarantine binges on Netflix… How would you like to receive a handwritten letter from a friend? For the next month, we’re tipping our hat to Mr. John and his early efforts by writing some letters of our own. If you’d like to get a little sunshine in your mailbox, just complete this form so we know where to send it. One of our team will send you a personal missive via the US Postal Service. Who knows? These little notes just might change one little corner of the world, even if it’s just for a moment. (Plug in your name and address in the form above to receive a personal, handwritten letter from a member of the Access Arts staff This is completely FREE, but we ask you please be patient! We'll get one to you a.s.a.p.) Below is one of Hurst John's original letters he sent to friends explaining his idea of starting Access Arts.
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APRIL
THEME: Long history of Outreach
THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): Grant Elementary workshop!
EVENT(S): Community Wood Firing
FOR FUN: Limited Edition Linocuts by Lisa Franko available for purchase!
THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): Grant Elementary workshop!
EVENT(S): Community Wood Firing
FOR FUN: Limited Edition Linocuts by Lisa Franko available for purchase!
MAY
THEME: Where are they now? (Student Alumni)
THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): Our clay and weaving 6-week classes of course!
EVENT(S): Wood Firing!
FOR FUN: Benton mug social media call! Tag us in a pic of your work made here at Access Arts on Facebook or Instagram, and you will be entered in a drawing for 50% off a 6-week class or workshop! @accessarts
THEME-FOCUSED CLASS(ES): Our clay and weaving 6-week classes of course!
EVENT(S): Wood Firing!
FOR FUN: Benton mug social media call! Tag us in a pic of your work made here at Access Arts on Facebook or Instagram, and you will be entered in a drawing for 50% off a 6-week class or workshop! @accessarts