PS 139Q Rego Park

Art Residency Program Overview

‘Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain
an artist once he (she) grows up.’ Pablo Picasso
 Grades: K - 5 PS 139Q Rego Park School Goal
We envision our students engaging as
Approximately
critical thinkers by gathering, manipulating
800 Students
and evaluating data to explore complex
real-world problems. Students will work
58% Minority collaboratively to communicate and
Enrollment create with varied technologies, analyzing
and solving real-world problems while
Diversity Score: developing the versatility to respond to an
Top 10% in NYC ever changing global society.
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PS139Q Parent Association
Parent Association Board and members are all parent volunteers
collaborating with teachers, faculty, the DOE, the community
neighbourhood, and local businesses in Queens and NYC to develop an
enrichment program that will motivate and inspire our children. These
programs will give them the foundation to dream big and reach for the
stars in whatever they set their minds and hearts on.

School Art Residency Program

Developed an art residency program that will teach our kids to shine
through various forms of arts including:
o Dance
o Music
o Theatre
o Visual Arts
o Performance
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Goal
To raise enough funds to have an Art Residency Program for every student in each grade in the
school regardless of cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Requirements
The Art Residency Program needs approximately $25K to fund the program for the entire school
So far we are targeting the following ways to raise the funds the program requires:
• Grants
• Sponsors
• Donations (Families/ Community)
• Partnerships
• Parent Association facilitated fundraisers

Funds Raised to Date

• Approximately $3K
• 2019 – 2020 Program Status (At risk without funding)
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Kindergarten: Marquis Studio Circus Arts

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1st Grade: Marquis Studio Puppetry

Art has the role in education of helping children

become like themselves instead of more like
everyone else. (Artfulparent.com)
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2nd Grade – Dance RiOULT.org
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3rd Grade – Broadway Class: Beatles & Beyond

‘Everything is possible, even the impossible’

(Mary Poppins)
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4th Grade – Broadway Class: Hamilton

The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it is

so accidental. It is much like life. (Arthur Miller)
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5th Grade – Dancing Classrooms
(Grant Awarded by Koslowitz)
Life isn’t about
waiting for the storm
to pass, it’s about
learning to dance in
the rain.

You can’t use up

creativity. The more
the use, the more
you have.
(Maya Angelou)
 Questions?

ps139qpa@gmail.com

Thanks to fellow parent Jonathan Lin for putting this together.

junosakai@gmail.com