Kids Love Arts™
The Living Love Foundation makes grants through its Kids Love Arts™ program and invests in other program related activities. The premise of Kids Love Arts™ is that a child who expresses himself or herself through the arts has an enhanced sense of self-worth and is better able to communicate and cope in the broader society.
Kids Love Arts© provides funding and in-kind contributions for supplies and instruction in many forms of artistic expression in partnership with grass roots organizations that have an established foothold in the communities they serve. All too often these groups face limitations to implementing art enrichment programs. The program is rounded out with Foundation communications programs that showcase the work created by the children, creating additional opportunities for enhanced self esteem. Please help us make a difference in our children's lives by donating to the Living Love Foundation today.
Kids Love Arts™ Ongoing Programs
Imagine the Future of Energy®: An Art Program for Children
Sponsored by Kids Love Arts™
This pilot program introduced by The Living Love Foundation’s Kids Love Arts© of Ventura County California invites the young artist to imagine and understand what energy is, where it comes from and how they can use art to tap into it.
Children today are facing a future world where a sound understanding of the properties of energy will be essential in their day to day lives. This art-energy program will give them a nuts and bolts understanding of wind, sun, water and air power and help them move beyond the framework of energy as something they simply get from plugging a cord into a wall socket or something that comes out of a pump at a gas station.
In addition to exposing them knowledge through hands on examples of water mills, wind mills and solar powered toys, Kids Love Arts© uses basic tools that are easily accessible to children so they can continue to incorporate their understanding of energy into their daily lives. The curriculum arms them with simple artistic-engineering principles which include; working with the weight of paper to origami and propel through the air; wind manipulation through kite making; pin wheeling; the properties of helium which help a balloon move effortlessly through the air and more.The program covers the ways in which this power can be harnessed and utilized on the day to day as well as how it can be tapped into through art. Finally they will have an opportunity to expand on what they have learned through sketches and modeling. The solar scooter, a solar powered motor bike was designed and introduced through this program.
Kids Love Arts™ and Imagine the Future of Energy is touring the country in a re-furbished bio-fuel vehicle that was acquired by The Foundation from the Director of The Atomic Mirror in Ventura County. This will be an exciting part of the tour, because participants are invited to sign the Bio-Fuel vehicle with their wishes and dreams for the future of energy and their world.
Fall 2008 Tour Cities:
Kansas City, Mo.
Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles Ca.
Long Beach,Ca
Oxnard, Ca.
New York, New York
Home is Where the Art Is
This weekly arts instruction program takes place at Salvation Army and Catholic Charities ten months out of the year. Working in partnership with the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities Family Shelters of Long Beach, The Living Love Foundation offers Home Is Where The Art Is through its grant-making program, Kids Love Arts™. This Saturday afternoon arts enrichment program for homeless children in Long Beach runs throughout the year. Home Is Where The Art Is, is taught by Julie Schustack, a professional artist who also teaches art at Cal State Long Beach. The curriculum includes quality instruction in visual arts; ceramics, painting, drawing and offers training in making scented lotions with organic herbs and scents. This summer, Kids Love Arts™ added Imagine the Future of Energy: An Art-Energy Program for Children, to this curriculum. All of these workshops foster individual creativity and strengthen the self-esteem of under-served children in the Long Beach community.
Living Love Foundation provides opportunities for Home Is Where The Art Is participants to showcase their work in local art exhibits and its KIDS LOVE ARTS magazine, creating additional opportunities for enhanced self-esteem and continued involvement.
Home Is Where The Art Is at the Catholic Charities family shelter reaches approximately 170 children per year ranging in age from elementary to middle school. Home Is Where The Art Is at Salvation Army family shelter reaches approximately 300 kids per year, mostly elementary age. Children at both shelters range in ethnicity from Caucasian to Pacific Islander to Hispanic to African-American. Most of these children have been living in an urban environment all their lives, and have probably had little if any exposure to the kinds of hands on arts instruction offered by the Living Love Foundation’s program.
What Children and Staff at Long Beach Catholic Charities and Salvation Army Shelter are saying about Kids Love Art’s Home is Where The Art Is
I enjoyed our project; it was making a cup with a face. Someone else made a rock. She called it the rock of her salvation. Another person never had art classes in her life and enjoyed it very much. It gives me something to look forward to and it is creative.
Jasmine-
Long Beach
Children look forward to the art classes and are learning a lot! Those who miss it are very sad about it. It is a beautiful and positive influence in their lives.”
Wendy Young
Program Coordinator
Catholic Charities
Long Beach, California
What we love about art from Home Is Where The Art Is Long Beach students
Everything…Earnie
Almost everything…Earnest
I like about it how it would take you to another journey…Matilda
Painting…Martha
You do fun stuff…Clarissa
Playing play…Vanesssa
Making stuph…Frankie
I like doing sculptures…Manuel
Creating Stuff…Brandon
Um…ok…I like how I can make stuff out of clay…jasmine
I don’t know what I like about art, I just like it…Isral
How to make safe how to make love how to make safe…Jeremy |
