The Morris Area Arts Boosters exists to provide funding for arts enrichment opportunities for the students in the Morris School District. Since 2004, we have awarded over $70,000 for various programs in music, dance, theater, visual and literary arts. Our main revenue sources are the annual Arts Festival & Carnival in the spring and memberships in our 501(c)3 organization. Projects we have funded
wholly or in part in recent years include:
--a dolly cart for a new keyboard for the music department;
--working with Community Education to bring in the CAAM Chinese Dance Theater to work with Elementary Phy Ed students;
--sending a group of 7th graders to the Minnesota Opera;
--artist-in-residence Jim Mondloch to teach watercolor techniques to the 3rd grade students;
--artist-in-residence Anne McFaul Reid to teach 4th graders to design, build and decorate night lights;
--providing special paint for a 5th grade class to decorate their model rockets;
--funding outdoor art easels for the preschool;
--providing tickets for the Spanish department to send students to “The House on Mango Street” in St. Paul;
--paying fees for students attending Honor Band, Honor Choir and the UMM Jazz Fest;
--and many others!
