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Now parents can sign up for a “two for one” tuition fee structure and attend a crafts class with their child. Floyd’s premiere visual arts education organization is offering a series of one-day Intergenerational Classes this fall, offering a unique opportunity for parents, grandparents, or guardians to team up with and share a creative learning experience with a young family member or charge.
While many past classes have been offered to adults as well as youths, this is the first program of its kind targeted specifically to engage local families in an experiential, joint learning situation at a discounted tuition rate. Underwritten primarily by the Greenfire Fund, started by a local group with a focus on making arts accessible, this new effort offers a complete schedule of classes taught by professional instructors in their fields. “My son and I signed up for blacksmithing,” said local parent Mark Smith. “At one point during the class, I turned to see how my boy was doing and I saw a young man hard at work. The experience has changed my view of him and our relationship has deepened. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have taken this class with him.” The Jacksonville Center has experience offering youth programming and a history of developing activities focusing on underserved groups such as the young and elderly. Accessibility is the keystone to Center events and opportunities offered to the public, and dedicated funding through the Greenfire Fund helps individuals of all financial means take advantage of these opportunities. Any like-minded individuals who seek to affect underserved populations such as these can contribute to the Greenfire Fund to help accessible programming at the Jacksonville Center have an extended future. Photo: (Top left) Students, instructor and mural from the high school art camp. Left to right Callie Vie, Jasmine Calvert, Ed Dolinger (instructor), Suzanne Burgess, Lois Calahan and Fiona Mahar-Milany. (Photo courtesy of The Jacksonville Center)
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