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Since 2002, over a million dollars have been granted to youth art programs in Sonoma.

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2018 Sonoma Valley Public School Grants

Dunbar School

Dunbar Elementary is continuing their successful Art at Lunch Program. The program serves approximately 160 students in grades 1-5 by enriching the lunch time with regular access to a variety of art experiences. The Art at Lunch Program offers students six art centers which enable them the opportunity to explore and be exposed to a variety of mediums and techniques while also fostering skills of collaboration, problem solving, communication, and self-expression. 
El Verano School

Art in Action Program, Poetry and Art public art project, Individual/group poems memorialized on solar panel, teacher, paint supplies, artist.


Flowery School

Flowery Elementary School piloted the Art in Action curriculum based visual arts program for Grades 1-3 with 2016 Sonoma Plein Air Foundation funding, and continues the program in the current school year, starting with Kindergarten and providing sequential art experiences for students as they advance grade by grade. The abundance of resources to support the artistic genre, including art history, strong visual support, and highly engaging and-age appropriate projects were excellent for our students. 
Prestwood School

Clay, drawing, painting and instructors, puppets, basket weaving, print making, 3-D sculptures,  

Sassarini School

Local artists’ fees, clay, glaze, oil pastels, water colors, tempera, photographic experience in grades 4-5, SDC students.

Altamira Middle School

Pictographs and petroglyphs, Renaissance techniques (large painting in VanGogh style), ceramics, color wheels, paint in Thibaud style, leather bracelets, wall hangings and coasters, field trip to SFMOMA.

Adele Harrison Middle School

Native American petroglyphs, rock carving, techniques from Renaissance, origami paper bookets and birds (copper tape and LED lighting), ceramics, paint in triplets (Thibaud), Japanese NoTan paper art, SFMOMA trip.

Sonoma Charter School

Art projects
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Woodland Star School

Woodworking, sewing, batiks using natural dyes, frame stretchers, oil pastels, wool, embroidery needles, yarn, felting project.

Special Education Classes

Grades 6-12, tye dye, felt, sketch books, hammers, pliers, canvases,

Sonoma Valley High School

Bas relief sculptures, clay totem, landscape diorama, lino-cuts, stencils, pinch pots, coil vessels, figure, & surrealist line drawing,  printmaking, box assemblage, pin hole cameras, darkroom processing, social/digital photography, photo collage. Supplies: sketchbooks, safety glasses, glazes, assorted acrylics, lino plates, inks,charcoal pencils, vinyl, ceramic wheels pottery tools, film, batteries, mat boards,frames, SFMOMA, SVMA, diRosa, Pier 24 field trips.

Creekside High School

Make & donate blankets to Sonoma Blanket Brigade, “permanent but changeable” outdoor art for campus to be mounted on exterior walls in the garden and back walls, and kits, acrylic paint, raw canvas, wood, nails, glue.

2017 Community Grants

Sonoma Community Center

Painting activity at Plaza during SPAF festival, Scholarships for Mentoring Alliance art lessons (mentees), and Trashion Fashion, Clay Day Camp and Teen Clay Camp with new ceramics-in house artist, sculpture and encaustic materials, paint, clay, and glaze.

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

Bringing 4-5 grades in SVSD, 200 hours of instruction, 29 classrooms, 800 students, 3,200
individual art experiences, class size 24-34, themed around Joseph de Lappe, art supplies, teaching artists honoraria.

Arts Guild

"Small but Grand” show of 8x10 canvases, gallery space/printing & reception.
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Art Escape

Mobile art studio (VanGogh) to Prestwood, after school with Flowery 3,4,5, Fridayafter school, Flowery Plein Air painting, SDC, paints, watercolor, acrylic, foam core, glue, pencils brush, clay, posterboard, art pens. 

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19201 Sonoma Highway, Suite 321
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  • HOME
  • ANNUAL FESTIVAL
    • ABOUT
    • THE ARTISTS >
      • 2024 ARTISTS
      • ARTISTS' CHOICE AWARDS
    • EVENTS SCHEDULE
  • ABOUT THE FOUNDATION
  • GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
    • CURRENT GRANTS 2025
    • LEWIS E. COOK III SCHOLARSHIP - for SVHS students
    • JUDY VADASZ SCHOLARSHIP - for Art Educator Certification
  • NEWS / VIDEOS
    • IN THE PRESS
    • OUR NEWSLETTERS
    • STUDENT EXHIBITS
    • VIDEO: Scholarship Winners, where are they now?
    • VIDEO: Putting Arts Education Back on Track
    • VIDEO: Live, Love, Learn
    • VIDEO: The Sonoma Plein Air Story
    • VIDEO: Art Really Matters
    • VIDEO SERIES: The Community Speaks
  • DONATE
  • VOLUNTEER