Pilot arts program spurs students' creativity, social skills
By Jodi Heckel
Thursday December 18, 2008
Heather Coit
Kavyasri Deevi, 13, uses a chair Wednesday to fit a dress that she made over the last few months as part of the pilot After School Arts Program at Franklin Middle School in Champaign. She was putting the dress on display at the school's gallery show.
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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