Friday, May 20, 2011

National Recognition for Revolving Museum

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Latest News: Revolving Museum is a National Finalist for White House Award

“National Recognition for the Work of Lowell’s Revolving Museum”

On May 10, 2011, Revolving Museum was selected as a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award national finalist by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. The Revolving Museum was named one of fifty finalists for twelve national awards, which will be announced by the end of June.

The competition was among 471 nominated organizations from across the United States. If selected for one of the twelve national awards, Revolving Museum representatives will be invited to attend a White House Awards ceremony and receive the award by First Lady Michelle Obama, as well as receive $10,000. Awardees also receive a full year of capacity-building and communications support, designed to make their organization stronger.

The Museum’s Board—chaired by University of Massachusetts Lowell history professor Robert Forrant—views this announcement as a tremendous validation for the hard work of the Museum’s staff, its many volunteers, and Lowell’s young people, the true recipients of this prestigious honor. This news comes on the heels of the Museum learning last week that it is the recipient of a grant from the Parker Foundation to help it hire a new Executive Director in the very near future.

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Support to Further Artistic Youth Development

Settled into its new home on Jackson Street, Revolving Museum provides high quality arts programs for 150 young people annually. These programs instill in them artistic exploration and appreciation, encourages community participation, and creates significant opportunities for individual empowerment. Students participating in Museum programs experience increases in academic achievement, higher high school graduation rates, and are more likely to enroll in post-secondary education. Hands-on, mentor-driven programs, including a Mural Crew, Public Art Projects, Artbotics, Article Fashion, and youth-directed performance programs make it possible for participants to become inspired and inspiring catalysts for positive social change and to engage constructively in Lowell’s civic dialogue.

Your contribution is key to sustaining these vital programs.

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Article taken from the Lowell Sun, 5/16/11:

Opportunity in fashion at Lowell's Revolving Museum
by Jennifer Myers

LOWELL -- Today, Michael Sam is finishing his senior year at Lowell High School. This fall, he will be studying fashion design in Florence, Italy.

Sam, 17, has been accepted to the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and will spend his first year studying abroad, an opportunity he said he would never have been afforded without the after-school program at the Revolving Museum.

"I come from a low-income family and never would have been able to afford sewing classes," said Sam, adding that he has been coming to the program since his freshman year. "Here I learned to sew and how to use a sewing machine. I learned about fabric and was able to work with many different fabrics."

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For more information on our educational programs or to get involved, please contact Diana Coluntino, Artistic Director:
dcoluntino@revolvingmuseum.org

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