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Grant recipients have a responsibility to complete LEEF review forms. Please download, fill out and submit the mid-year and year-end reports contained in the microsoft file below.

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Local Students. Local Artists.

Local Students. Local Artists. was designed for all students in grades 1st – 5th to learn art mediums in a new way with professional artists from Western MA. This project would not have been possible without the generous financial support from Longmeadow Excellence in Education Foundation (LEEF) and Wolf Swamp Road School Parent Teacher Association (PTA). 

Research shows that experience with art can have a ripple effect into other areas of the curriculum like math and reading. Further McCarthy, Ondaatje, Brooks and Szanto (2005) report that art “can connect people more deeply to the world and open them to new ways of seeing,” thus impacting how children relate to others in the school and the community at large. 

This program was aimed to expand student’s experience with art—visual and performance.The artists explained and demonstrated their crafts to the students before students began working on a creation in the artist’s medium.