Arts in Education
Featured Alumni
Name:Madison Paige BishopProject: Hand in Hand
Age: 13
State: KY
Year Awarded: 2008
Madison Paige is helping abused children between the ages 4-9 to renew their creative spirit by working with them with arts and crafts during their stay at the Center for Women and Families in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Name:Arielle BarrientosProject: Strings With Wings, Inc.
Age: 19
State: MS
Year Awarded: 2008
Arielle founded her organization to give impoverished children the chance to learn music by providing instruments, equipment, and private instruction in hopes of giving them an opportunity to transcend their poverty.
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Name:Audrey Adair-HauserProject: Music Connects A Special Chorus with Senior Citizens
State: FL
Year Awarded: 2008
Audrey wants to raise awareness about the disabled and the elderly by gathering a group of economically disadvantaged students with disabilities to sing and perform for school functions and in elderly homes in the community.
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Name:Morgan Kathleen FisherProject: Bands that JAM for Africa
Age: 16
State: MI
Year Awarded: 2009
Morgan organized a benefit concert in her community, and donated all the proceeds to JAM, an organization that is feeding and educating 430,000 children in Africa every day.
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Name:Somaly ChhumProject: Cambodian Youth Program: Khen (flute) & Hip Hop Dance
Age: 15
State: CA
Year Awarded: 2009
In hopes of decreasing racial and ethnic violence in Oakland, Somaly is sharing her Cambodian background and her love for hip hop with other communities by performing a hip hop dance that she choreographed with her friends.
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Name:Hallie GreenbergProject: Performing Arts from the Heart
Age: 16
State: NY
Year Awarded: 2009
Hallie began a music/theatre program for low-income school districts in New York to help kids avoid the dangers inherent in unsupervised, unstructured after-school time, and develop habits that will contribute to social and academic success.
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The British boy band Take That took home their second O2 Silver Clef award this weekend but the fame and fortune is not getting to their heads. Right after they won the award at the Intercontinental Hotel in London they made a major donation to charity.
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