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Giving Back to the Community
With the goal of making "the North Penn Art Alliance synonymous with service," NPAA members enjoy getting involved in the community outside of simply providing art classes, presenting exhibitions, and offering monthly meetings that are open to the public.
How We're Making a Difference in our Own Backyard:
• Neighborhood celebrations: Through events like North Wales Day and Lansdale Day, NPAA volunteers take art to the people—setting up portable displays of local work, and sometimes offering children's art activities with supplies donated by area businesses.
• Hedwig House: Through a grant provided by the 5-County Arts Fund*, NPAA members Barbara Moss Buscher and Jo Ann Cooksey Bono teach fall and spring sessions of art classes to mentally challenged adults who are members of the Hedwig House program.
• The Wellness Community at the Anne McCouch Center: NPAA member Sally Ada Marie Neiderhiser offers a session of creative expression and art classes to people with cancer and their loved ones. |
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• This program is sponsored by the 5-County Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. It is funded by the citizens of Pennsylvania through an annual legislative appropriation, and administered locally by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The 5-County Arts Fund is also supported by PECO, An Exelon Company. Some Montgomery County projects are also funded, in part, by an appropriation from Montgomery County. For additional information about these grants, visit the Cultural Alliance online at www.philaculture.org. |
