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The Atelier serves youth who excel in the visual arts. It is an organization run by professional artists. This gives students access to artists distinguished in their fields. The diverse visual artists who teach at the Atelier reflect varied attitudes. Their commonality is a commitment to quality, integrity, and intensity of research. The Atelier is not about easy success, but holds participants to the highest professional standards as they explore the processes of visual art.
Atelier CMS inc.
PO BOX 106112
Jefferson City, MO 65110
Youth must be at least 13 years of age or entering high school.
Under served teens and at-risk youth are our priority.
Five examples of student artwork will be reviewed at the time of interview. Two letters of recommendation should be sent via email (carlasteck@embarqmail.com) from people who are aware of student's qualifications. Students accepted through the interview process will receive FREE tuition.
There
is a huge need in our economy for creativity: creativity
is the fuel for the information age. Our education system has been built
on the economic model of industrialism. The industrial economy required
a workforce that was 80 percent manual and 20 percent professional. Most
of our education systems were designed to pick out this 20 percent of
kids and give them privileged access to certain sorts of occupations.
That model is changing irrevocably. We no longer live essentially in an
industrial economy, and the work force we need now has a new pattern.
The Atelier offers an opportunity for youth to meet that challenge.
The Atelier's admissions policy does not discriminate because of race,
color or creed. Students must re-apply for admission at the end of each
session.
A team of researchers led by Shirley Brice-Heath recently
completed a decade of research on youth development in
the non-school hours. In its initial seven years, the study
gave no particular attention to those organizations that
featured the arts. Only when analysis of the data indicated
unique patterns among youth did the study turn special
attention to the ways that the arts worked for learning.