ART ROOM AFTER SCHOOL
We have exciting news! Beginning this fall AVA will begin managing Art Room’s After School program!
We are dedicated to continuing this program with the same founding principals 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 at no cost to students or their families. Read more about this transition below.
The After School program includes 4 units throughout the academic year, each lasting 8 weeks. Each unit has a capacity of 25 students and is available to all youth in Clatsop County.
Register for Unit 2 below. Registration will remain open until the maximum class size is reached.
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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 AVA to create summer Art Camps. In 2023, they launched an After School program, which provided free standard-based art education throughout the academic year.
In 2024, Art Room founders and co-directors, Kiley Laws and Chloe Maglio, both received exciting opportunities to advance their educational careers outside of Art Room programing and began to look for an organization to continue what they started. In August 2024, Art Room and AVA met and made an agreement for AVA to continue Art Room’s programming.
Kiley and Chloe, along with Art Room’s former board president, Andrea Mazzarella, will continue to be involved in Art Room’s programs from time to time. They are excited to help organize the annual Wreath Making Workshop scheduled for December 7 at the Anita Building and will continue advocating for equitable standards-based education for all school age youth in Clatsop County.
