The Arts are Essential

A message from the National Education Association

"Caught between the demands of testing and an uncertain economy, arts programs occupy a vulnerable and shrinking niche in the school curriculum. Despite research showing the benefits of exposure to the arts, art programs are frequently the first to go when budgets are stripped and standardized testing takes center stage.

With the arts go fine arts specialists, whose expertise enables them to guide students to a deeper experience of appreciating and creating art. We cannot let the arts disappear from public education. Every student deserves the benefits of a comprehensive fine arts program and instructors uniquely qualified to deliver it."

ArtsBridge is Essential

ArtsBridge has never turned away a student or school due an inability to pay. Your financial support allows the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation to sustain the ArtsBridge mission and purpose, keep program prices affordable and provide admission and transportation subsidies for the many students and schools in financial need.

Please support arts edcuation by giving to ArtsBridge.