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WHAT: Students at Overbrook Elementary School will present their final project, “Come Take a Look on Overbrook.” The display is a mural-like art project composed of photographs depicting daily life in Overbrook, the diversity in the community, and the beauty of urban life. While doing the project, students researched the changing needs of their community.

WHO: Overbrook Elementary School Students, winners of a $4,750 PCCY Picasso Project arts grant, will present an art project they created depicting the beauty of their community. Students worked with the Overbrook Arts and Environmental Education, photographer Doris Stahl, and volunteers from the US Forest Service and the Penn State Extension Educators.

WHEN: Friday, June 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM

WHERE: Overbrook Elementary School
2032 N. 61nd St. Philadelphia, PA 19151

CONTACT: Gretchen Elise Walker, PCCY, 617.792.6376, gretchenelise@childrenfirstpa.org
Anthony Hopkins, Communications Director, PCCY, 215.563.5848 ext. 23

Since its inception in 2002, the Picasso Project has granted $425,000 in funds to support arts projects in 106 schools, working with 500 teachers and 99 teaching artists to reach over 26,500 children with the goal of enhancing creative and performing arts in Philadelphia schools. The Picasso Project seeks to demonstrate the importance of arts in building school unity, community engagement, and active learning. In the current budget crisis, instrumental music and other arts teachers are slated to be eliminated from schools, depriving children of valuable arts education opportunities. The Picasso Project helps schools address these losses by urging city and state legislators to SUPPORT SCHOOL FUNDING. Founded in 1980, Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY) is dedicated to improving the lives and life chances of children in the Delaware Valley.