Our Scholarship Program offers Southern Nevada high school graduates $1,000 per year for college. They must take a minimum of 2 visual art classes per semester, and maintain a 3.0 GPA Most are working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
Over $65,000 has been awarded to students to date and the program is very successful.
We currently offer six four-year scholarships at $1,000 per year and have six students "working" with us all the time. When one graduates or drops out we award another scholar-ship. Our Vice President serves as Chairman of the Scholarship Committee and develops a repore with the students and their parents to keep them in the program. They are delightful, talented kids which is proof that art in education helps develop our kids to be good upright adults.
The City of Boulder City refurbished buildings and landscapes on the old Children's Home property on Adams Boulevard for a new park. It was named the Adams Boulevard City Park. Instantly it was nicknamed ABC Park and the name stuck.
One of the cottages was dedi- cated to art education. The classes cover hand-on activities in ceramics, painting, glass fusion, pottery, etc.
The Guild gave an initial $5,000 towards the project in 2001 and $3,000 towards a mural in a ceramics project in 2002.
The Art Center will be our primary charity. We have established a fund of $1,000 per year for the Art Center to use to help pay for class fees of seniors or kids that can't affor
The center is given space in our annual Fine Arts Festival for demon-strations and to exhibit the work of the students there. They usually have a crowd by their booth.
Our charitable projects are dependent upon the artists that participate in our Annual Boulder City Fine Arts Festival, concession fees and the Fine Art raffle ticket sales during the Festival, all of which are 100% tax deductible.
