Founder's Focus

For the past 15 years, VSC staff members have been teaching art, two days a week, to the 275 children in the Johnson Elementary School. This was done on a volunteer basis for many years until the program received funding from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Henderson Foundation and, now most recently for the 2010 season, from the Canaday Foundation. As a component of this community commitment during the school year, each year VSC also hosts a free week long mid-July summer art camp open to children from the community. Taught by VSC’s Arista Alanis, Director of the Elementary School Program, it is held in the Life Drawing Studio and culminates in an exhibition of the inspiring work made over the week.

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