Pilot arts program spurs students' creativity, social skills
CHAMPAIGN – Kavyasri Deevi decided to try something different in her after-school art class at Franklin Middle School. She loves fashion, so she spent the last couple of months making a dress.
The blue strapless silk dress she sewed was on display in Franklin's library Wednesday evening, along with drawings, paintings, clay sculpture, and a stuffed animal. The Franklin students who created them were part of a pilot arts education program, the After School Arts Program, or ASAP.
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