New Year New Look
Arts Horizons is excited to start the year with a fresh new look! Stay up to date with the latest news at Arts Horizons and enjoy our new website.
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As We Approach the New Year
As we approach the new year, Arts Horizons reflects on 44 years of enhancing the lives of people of all ages and abilities by creating equitable opportunities to engage in the arts. Emerging from the challenges of the pandemic, we champion the arts as the cornerstone to rebuild, reimagine and revitalize our communities of learning.
Arts Horizons is deeply grateful for your contribution in any amount. Every dollar you donate supports our programs to ensure that the arts remain essential to our schools and communities.
Whether you can donate, share our message, or invite one of our programs to your site, your support makes a difference.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve your community by welcoming our professional teaching artists who uplift communities through the arts and reach the next generation of leaders, creatives, and thinkers for innovation and social change.
Wishing you a happy and healthy 2023!
Dena Isles, Executive Director, and the Arts Horizons Team
Thank you Donate2Dance!
As 2022 comes to a close, Arts Horizons is reflecting on the past 44 years of enhancing the lives of students through the arts. At Arts Horizons, we have strived to create equal social emotional and learning opportunities for students of all ages and abilities to engage in Visual and Performing Arts.
With support from teaching artists, schools, students, and the community, we are pleased to look back on our positive collective efforts. Especially, the efforts of one wonderful community member, Ms. Pheobe Schutzer a local ambassador for the non-profit “Donate2Dance”. Donate2Dance is a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect gently worn dance shoes, costumes, and dancewear to donate to dance schools in need across the country.
Ms. Pheobe Schutzer and her family (with guidance from Donate2Dance) graciously donated dance performance wear, practice wear and a variety of dance shoes which were collected from the community. Their efforts resulted in the collection of over 160 dance items that will go towards Arts Horizon’s many theatre and dance programs in New York and New Jersey.
We thank you, Ms. Phoebe Schutzer and Family, in affiliation with Donate2Dance, for your efforts to support the community and upcycle dance wear. These donations will assist our teaching artists in uplifting the students and their communities through the arts and help create a new generation of leaders, creatives, and thinkers for innovation and social change.
As we emerge from the challenges of the pandemic, we will continue to champion the arts for our communities of students and teaching artists. Whether you can donate, share our message, and volunteer your time, your support makes a difference and propels the community forward.
For more information, please contact:
Marion Ahamat
Program Manager
marion@artshorizons.org
212-268-7219 ext. 105
201-567-1766 ext. 105
We’re a Proud Grantee of the NYC Cultural Affairs CDF
Arts Horizons is thrilled to announce that we’ve received a generous grant from the NYC Cultural Affairs Cultural Development Fund (CDF) to support our in-school and after school arts programs at various schools, hospitals, libraries, and community centers across the city! Art and culture are so important to New York City, and we’re proud to join this group of more than 1,000 organizations receiving a total of over $58 million in City support to deliver cultural programming to communities across all five boroughs. You can read more about this year’s CDF awards at nyc.gov/culture.
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For more information, please contact:
Kiran Rajagopalan
Senior Program Director
kiran@artshorizons.org
212-268-7219 ext. 113
201-567-1766 ext. 113
This Holiday Season
This holiday season, Arts Horizons reflects on 44 years of enhancing the lives of people of all ages and abilities by creating equitable opportunities to engage in the arts. As we re-emerge from the challenges of the pandemic, we champion the arts as the cornerstone to rebuild, reimagine and revitalize our communities of learning. During this past year, our dedicated teaching artists reached over 200,000 students and reinforced the power of the arts to educate, heal, unite, and spark innovation.
During this season of giving, we ask for your support to sustain our vital social-emotional learning programs, culturally responsive arts workshops, and specialty programs for multilingual learners, special education, hospital schools, and seniors. Arts Horizons is deeply grateful for your contribution in any amount. Every dollar you donate supports our programs to ensure that the arts remain essential to our schools and communities.
Whether you can donate, share our message, or invite one of our programs to your site, your support makes a difference.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve your community by welcoming our professional teaching artists who uplift communities through the arts and reach the next generation of leaders, creatives, and thinkers for innovation and social change.
Wishing you a happy and healthy 2023!
Honoring the Loss of Bob McGrath
Arts Horizons is deeply saddened by the passing of Bob McGrath, actor, musician, and original cast member of Sesame Street for over five decades. Bob McGrath is an icon for educational programming for generations of children and carried the mission of Sesame Street to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Sesame Workshop shared a statement that “Bob embodied the melodies of Sesame Street like no one else, and his performances brought joy and wonder to generations of children around the world, whether teaching them the ABCs, the people in their neighborhood, or the simple joy of feeling music in their hearts.”
Arts Horizons is honored to have shared in the many gifts that Bob McGrath offered to our youth as a friend, supporter, and Advisory Board Member. He was first introduced to our organization in the 1990s when we were formerly Festival of Music. As an actor and musician, he was excited to see our live performance assemblies and complimented their educational value. We shared the same mission to make the arts fundamental to children’s education. One time he filled an entire auditorium with excitement when he made a special presentation to the youth at one of our local community schools.
We honor the rich legacy of Mr. Bob McGrath and the gift he has shared with generations of youth worldwide. Our thoughts go out to his family and all those touched by his life and legacy.
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