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Reel Arkansas Workshops

Elaine Akin — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:58:08 +0000

Reel Arkansas is partnering with the Thea Foundation to bring three ground-breaking workshops for high school students to the central Arkansas community this summer. Join the area’s finest professionals for a hands-on arts experience. Click here for details.

Thea’s Art Class

Elaine Akin — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:31:45 +0000

This summer, the Thea Foundation is offering the second installment of Thea’s Art Class, a summer art camp designed to utilize arts-infused education. For more information and to register, click here.

Thea Mission – Paul Leopoulos

Paul — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:58:56 +0000

This video should be watched by anyone who wishes to know the origin of the Thea Foundation. Paul Leopoulos the Co-Founder with his wife Linda Leopoulos speaks about important reasons why the Foundation is doing such important work in Education. This important and emotional video is a must to understand Thea.

Thea Arts Festival 2012 Photo Album

Paul — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:58:20 +0000

Thea’s first arts festival held in the Argenta area of North Little Rock, Arkansas was a great success. The crowd was steady all day, the artists were happy, the food was great and the entertainers and demonstrators were busy.

Thea’s Art Closet & BHP Billiton

Elaine Akin — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:20:59 +0000

Thea’s Art Closet in partnership with BHP Billiton recently delivered art supplies to high schools in Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren and White Counties. BHP Billiton Petroleum of Houston, the second largest natural gas producer in the Fayetteville Shale, donated $30,000 to purchase the supplies. In all, nineteen high schools throughout the Fayetteville Shale Play received a year’s worth of art supplies, including paints, brushes, markers, and paper.

For more information on Thea’s Art Closet, click here.

Arkansas A+ Schools

Paul — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:07:33 +0000

The Thea Foundation’s Arkansas A+ Schools is a teaching philosophy rooted in the value of the arts in education and is modeled after the research-based A+ networks in North Carolina and Oklahoma. The A+ Schools Program is touted as the nation’s most successful arts-based, whole-school reform model.

Earlier this year, the A+ Schools Program was recognized by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities for reinforcing “the power of the arts to improve the lives and learning of students and teachers.” By integrating the arts into every subject, student learning is enhanced and mastery is strengthened in all disciplines. See Reinvesting in Arts Education

Now, A+ is in place in half a dozen public schools in Arkansas, thanks in part to the help from leaders in the Oklahoma A+ Schools. The Thea Foundation is partnering with the highly successful Oklahoma A+ Schools to bring training and development to new A+ Schools across Arkansas. Oklahoma A+ statistics, over the past nine years in sixty-eight public, private, and charter schools across Oklahoma, prove that the A+ teaching process can successfully be replicated to create high quality, high performing schools.

For more information: Click Here

Arkansas A+ Schools Overview