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Underground Museum Arts Camp

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Brushes not Guns!

Hello! My name is Phoebe Legere, Executive Director of

the New York Underground Museum .

Did you know that we run a two-week free

NYUM Art Camp   for the VISIONARY ARTISTS of

TOMORROW? It all happens in the public gardens and non-profit spaces of the Lower East Side of Manhattan!  

For the past 7 years Art and Music programs have been slashed in low-income schools. 

Because of severe school budget cuts, thousands of New York City children might never experience the joy, freedom and power that an Art program can have.

NYUM Art Camp is  the only free Art Camp available to underserved and neglected children in the East Village.

Our neighborhood has always been identified with imagination, inspiration and ingenuity but for children, the inventiveness of the East Village is rapidly
deteriorating.

The New York City Department of Education reports that arts education is in a crisis. In addition to significant declines in arts budgets, the number of certified arts teachers in city schools is declining as well. Far too many schools, including ones at the elementary and middle school levels, are not providing the arts
instruction required according to state education law.

"These significant declines are especially disheartening
when we consider further impending budget cuts and
threatened teacher layoffs," said Richard Kessler, Center for Arts Education, Executive Director.

"The status of arts education could go from bad to worse if steps are not taken to protect the arts."

These are extraordinarily challenging times. This is why we are urgently searching for friends to support our important work.

Our NYUM Art Camp is a two-week free program for the underserved, disadvantaged children of New York. We foster self-esteem and self awareness through 
creativity. 

~We coach children on self-respect and healthy self-
expression.

~We provide art materials and techniques, theater games, singing and basic music theory.

~Our teachers are visionary artists and musicians. 

~Every day of camp we provide a nutritious free lunch of  healthy food and juice.

New York City ghetto life can be very tense. Many children live in a constant state of fear. Stress, tension and fear lead to gangs, crime and drugs. 

Our motto is Brushes not Guns! We believe that music, art, creativity and imagination increase intelligence, heighten interpersonal empathy, and teach empowering problem-solving skills.

Art transmutes violence and pain into harmony and beauty.

We teach drawing, painting, singing, keyboard. and theater. We believe passionately in our power to teach conflict resolution through creative expression!

The NYUM Art Camp  fosters self-esteem and self-awareness, tolerance and self-reliance.   We embrace the whole child, their dreams, their beauty, their goals and their inner and outer experience. 

Please donate what you can so more children can
experience the art and music that are denied them in
school. If they have some exposure to art and music it is critically important to continue their encounter with the arts all year long. We nurture the Visionary Artists of Tomorrow! 

~Your gift of $20 will buy art materials for a gifted young child.

~Your gift of $35 will ensure that each child has a

nutritious lunch, with fresh juice every day of art camp.

Press the donate button now. Your donation will give the magic healing gift of art and music!

Just $20 will bring harmony, beauty and peace to the lives of underprivileged Urban Children. Please make your donation now. 

In tough times, the creative community has always demonstrated compassion by supporting artistic programs. NYUM Art Camp  is a life-changing experience that can transform the bleak, hollow and austere summer in the city into a positive
experience for the child who aches to express his or her
self creatively. The effects will last a lifetime.

Your empathy, compassion and generosity can help introduce a child to the wonderful world of creative expression in NYUM Art Camp.

Thank you for taking the time to think about this

important issue. 

Art and Music are not just for the 1%. Everyone deserves to have beauty in their lives.  You are our best advocate for Art and Music in the lives of our Children!

Thank You,

Phoebe Legere,

Executive Director

Underground Museum Foundation

~The UMF is dedicated to Celebrating Visionary Art and Music, Nurturing the Artists of Tomorrow.

~The NY Underground Museum works to revitalize New York as a Center for Visionary Art.

~The Underground Museum preserves, protects and curates the works of Visionary Artists.

Organizer

Phoebe Legere
Organizer
New York, NY

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