Some residents of the Brantwood Children's Home show off their Van Gogh-inspired "Starry Night" creations.

Some residents of the Brantwood Children's Domicile show off their Van Gogh-inspired "Starry Night" creations.

Abrakadoodle is a champion for children's fine art education, bringing smiles, conviction, skills and inventiveness to disadvantaged children through its annual Arts for All Scholarship plan since 2007. Because Abrakadoodle is out in communities' nationwide providing fine art classes, camps and events, we see needs and have chosen to respond in impactful ways. We salute franchise owners Susan Parker of Abrakadoodle of Montgomery, Alabama and Charla Stuart of Abrakadoodle of Greater Metro Houston, who along with their teaching teams have made a positive deviation in the lives of children and young adults this past yr. Ii fine art programs were funded with scholarship monies in 2014 with program delivery in belatedly 2014 and 2022 to include the Brantwood Children'due south home in Alabama and the Texas Children's Hospital Cancer and Hematology Center in Houston, Texas.

Brantwood residents immerse in art, learning about artists, art forms & styles and painting while expressing their own interpretation of the material!

Brantwood residents immerse in art, learning about artists, art forms & styles and painting while expressing their own estimation of the material!

Abrakadoodle-Montgomery, Alabama provided a series of four in-schoolhouse field trips at the Brantwood Children's Home in Alabama. The hands-on art classes were delivered in late December 2014, leap and fall 2015. Many youth enjoyed painting with acrylics for the first fourth dimension and immersed in creative activities that helped them to discover artists, fine art forms and techniques while enjoying cocky-expression. According to Brantwood'due south director, "Children have not had an art program in more than eight years." The Brantwood Children's Domicile provides a rubber, stable, structured environment for driveling, neglected and other "at-risk" children ages 10-21. Margaret Cornwell, Abrakadoodle Programme Manager, said, "Working directly with the kids who live at the Brantwood Children's Home was enormously rewarding. They actually enjoyed immersing in art and expressing themselves in a fun and nurturing environment."

A little girl takes a break from fighting cancer to create art.

A little girl takes a break from fighting cancer to create art.

Abrakadoodle-Greater Metro Houston, Texas provided three, two-60 minutes art events for pediatric patients and their families at the Texas Children'south Hospital Cancer and Hematology Center in Houston, Texas. These hands-on art events provided children and their siblings with creative choices and joyful expression in a earth where they have few choices, while also balancing family focus when so much energy is focused on the child's affliction. Abrakadoodle's Arts for All programs were launched during the holiday flavour 2014 and continued with late jump and fall events. According to Carol Herron, Arts in Medicine Program Coordinator, Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, "Information technology is a joy to be able to help families make some positive memories from a very difficult time in their lives. Thank you to Abrakadoodle for helping to do this." Reflecting on her Arts for All feel, Charla Stuart remarked, "I feel that our art program has had a very positive impact on the delightful patients at the Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers. The joy was credible in the shining faces of our program participants as they created imaginative art works that reflected their own respective styles."

For kids facing life-threatening illnesses, art provides a needed escape, a sense of accomplishment and a connection to beauty.

For kids facing life-threatening illnesses, fine art provides a needed escape, a sense of achievement and a connection to dazzler.

Abrakadoodle headquarters, forth with its dedicated franchisees and their instructional staff members are proud to have donated more than ii,000 hours and approximately $20,000 to date to make these impressive programs possible and to make a departure in communities nationwide. We look forward to continuing this legacy of innovation and impact by funding empowering fine art programs now and in the futurity.

Since 2007, Abrakadoodle corporate headquarters annually awards franchisees with grant monies to provide fine art programs for children facing a variety of financial, intellectual, emotional, concrete or other hardships and challenges. In its eighth year, Abrakadoodle straight reaches out with its laurels-winning fine art programming, well-trained teachers and top notch art materials to empower students and to provide creativity-boosting, skill-building, fun and healing art experiences. Abrakadoodle's funded programs have included an 8-calendar week summer camp for economically disadvantaged kids at the Ann Arbor Customs Center in Michigan to afterschool fine art classes for low-income deafened and hard-of-hearing students in Los Angeles and art programming for 100 children at an Atlanta shelter, equally well as summertime camps for at-take a chance young teens in Denver and weekly art classes for low-income preschoolers in Austin to fine art programs for developmentally disabled preschoolers in Towson, Maryland and our most recent programs in Alabama serving at-risk youth at a children's abode and in Houston serving children with cancer. Abrakadoodle is truly touching children's lives and providing a lasting impact.