ART ROOM AFTER SCHOOL
We have exciting news! AVA began managing Art Room’s After School program beginning with academic year 2024-2025!
AVA is dedicated to continuing the program with the same founding principles as Art Room leaders: to enrich the social, emotional, and academic development of Clatsop County's youth. This program provides weekly standards-based art education during the school year at no cost to students or their families. Read more about this transition below.
The After School program includes four units throughout the academic year, each lasting eight weeks. Each unit has a capacity of 25 students and is available to all youth in Clatsop County.
Registration for the 2025-26 academic year will be open in August.
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Businesses and individuals are invited to sponsor ART ROOM to ensure this program continues. Sponsors of $100 and above will have their logo included on promotional materials and be included on the summer camp t-shirts.
As AVA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, all donations to this program are tax-deductible.
HISTORY: Art Room was founded in 2022 by Astorians Kiley Laws and Chloe Maglio to enrich the social, emotional, and academic development of Clatsop County's elementary age students. Art Room offered free art programing in partnership with the Astoria Library, and in 2022 and 2023, Art Room partnered with Astoria Visual Arts to create summer Art Camps. They were a huge success! In 2023, Art Room launched an after school program, which provided weekly art education throughout the academic year.
In 2024, Art Room founders and co-directors Kiley Laws and Chloe Maglio received exciting opportunities to advance their art education careers. In August 2024, Art Room and AVA made an agreement for AVA to continue Art Room’s stellar programming.
Kiley and Chloe, along with Art Room’s former board president, Andrea Mazzarella, will continue to be involved in Art Room from time to time, advocating for equitable, standards-based education for all school age youth in Clatsop County.
