On April 29, the Chagrin Falls Intermediate School Art Club held a fundraiser to help with funding for art programming at Our Family Home Center (OFHC), a nonprofit community center, in East Cleveland. The day of the fundraiser was called “Rainbow Day” and students were encouraged to dress in their favorite color from head to toe, to celebrate the arts at CFIS, and bring in 50 cents to donate to the fundraiser.
This is the first year of the Chagrin Falls Art Club. The club has two goals; to create art and to give back and connect with the community in arts-related ways. The students in Art Club have learned that it takes a community to support, inspire and nurture creativity and the arts. With this in mind, the club partnered with Mary Ann Breisch and Our Family Home Center, a nonprofit community center dedicated to providing after school arts programming to our youth while providing meals to those in need.
At the end of the fundraiser, the Art Club raised $178 for OFHC and the homerooms who raised the most money in each grade level won rainbow popsicles. The winning classrooms were fourth grade teacher, Abby Dippel, fifth grade teacher, Ellen McKelvey and sixth grade teacher Katherine Owen.
“We realize how fortunate we are in Chagrin to have resources and things to do after school, as well as rich and diverse arts programming built into our school day,” said art teacher, Kate Oulton. “With this in mind, it seemed only right for our Art Club to help other students have the opportunity to be exposed to art.”
