Program Funding
 



Underwater scene in dormitory, Artist Inside Students (C) 2006
Funding and Support:

We are a non-profit organization dependant on donations and grants. All of the instructors are volunteers providing their time, art supplies and other resources to the program.
 
We are currently looking for a Fiscal Sponsor in order to continue the work and handle program donations. 
 
Art Supplies:

We provide the participants with high quality, professional art supplies—the same materials each of the instructors use as artists. We believe this sends a message of worthiness and allows the student to make the same type of choices that other artists make who are not incarcerated, regarding their message and their medium.

Grants/Awards:

    * French Award for Innovation in Secondary Education, NMSU 2006  (details below)

    * ERC: Creating Spaces for Agency for Incarcerated Youth through Art 2007



We are grateful to the following organizations for their support
  • The John Paul Taylor Center Juvenile Facility in Las Cruces
  • New Mexico State University: Department of Education
  • New Mexico State University: Women's Studies Department
  • The Las Cruces Museum of Art
  • The Frame and Arts Center in Las Cruces
  • The Grace Covenant Church
The French Award
For their proposal to introduce art curriculum at Aztec High School of the John Paul Taylor Correctional Facility, Sara Flores, an instructor of women's studies at New Mexico State University, and Heather Oesterreich, an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at NMSU, were announced as the winners of the 2006 French Annual Improvement of Secondary Teaching Award.

The $4,900 award is the most prestigious external award given by NMSU’s College of Education.

Flores and Oesterreich were honored at the Fourteenth Annual Scholarship and Awards Ceremony held in Spring 2007. They gave a brief presentation on the success to date and future plans of the project.