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Michael Yanette,
Program
Director for CCE; Mellie Justad;
Ralph
Hamilton Award winner; Tom Pilecki,
Executive Director of CCE
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Photo by: Lucien
Capehart Photography
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CENTER FOR
CREATIVE EDUCATION HONORS ARTISTS
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WEST PALM BEACH – From clay and mosaics to
acting and singing, Center for Creative
Education (CCE) artists transformed
classrooms into unique learning experiences
for many local students during the 2007 –
2008 school year. Artists, board members,
staff and friends of CCE gathered recently
at "Portiuncula," the home of Tom Pilecki,
Executive Director of CCE, to honor the
artists at the annual Artists Awards Party –
recognizing this year’s most outstanding
projects in after- and in-school
programming.
"The Artists Awards Party is a special
evening to celebrate the talented artists
who work hard all year with students from
area schools," Pilecki began. "Through our
CADRE and LEAP programs, our artists make a
huge impact on the children by creating
memorable learning experiences either in the
classroom or during the after school
programs. I am always so amazed with the
unique projects created encompassing all
different art forms."
CCE is a not-for-profit educational
organization that supports partnerships
among schools, arts and cultural
organizations, artists, community-based
organizations, and human service providers
in order to integrate the arts into academic
curriculum and out-of-school activities in
Palm Beach County. Since its inception in
1994, more than 70,000 students have
benefited from CCE, inspiring their love of
learning through the arts. CCE currently
has more than 40 artists on their roster.
CADRE is an arts and cultural program
offered through a partnership with Prime
Time of Palm Beach County that brings
programs in all arts areas to afterschool
providers. Project LEAP provides
artist-classroom teacher collaborations that
improve student learning and teaching
practices by integrating arts and academics
into the classroom setting. CADRE and LEAP
artists were presented with the Ralph
Hamilton Award, the most distinguished award
at CCE. The award is named for the former
director of development at the MacArthur
Foundation and
co-founder of CCE.
This year’s Ralph Hamilton Award winner for
LEAP programming was Ronni Gerstel for her
“The Ellis Island Effect: An Immigration
Living Museum” with Mrs. Manchester’s third
grade class at Grassy Waters Elementary in
West Palm Beach. John Carlile and Rae
Randall were runners-up with their “The
Scientific Method” project created with
Melinda Graat’s fifth grade class at South
Olive Elementary in West Palm Beach.
Honorable mention went to Jean Heart Howard
for “The Life Cycle of a Butterfly” with 14
students from Martha Kratz and Rachel
Kravitt’s classroom at Potentials North in
Riviera Beach and Potentials South in Boca
Raton.
The CADRE Hamilton Award winning project was
“Super-Saturating the Rainforest” with
artist Mellie Justad and students at Forest
Park Elementary in Boynton Beach.
Runners-up were Anne Sheehy Moritz, Steve
Brouse, Ronni Gerstel, Tracey Ross of
Peterson, Ramona Jenkins and Sonja Kelly for
the “Serendipity Garden” they created with
students at Hidden Oaks Elementary in Lake
Worth.
To date, the 12-year-old CCE has operated as
an outreach programming supplement to public
school curricula by bringing arts teaching
and cultural collaborations to public
schools in disadvantaged communities to
transform a child's educational experience.
CCE recently purchased the former skating
rink on 24th Street in West Palm Beach and
is raising $10 million to create a community
center that will feature a 300-seat black
box theatre, dance studio, art galleries and
classrooms.
For more information on The Center for
Creative Education,
please call (561) 805-9927, or visit
www.cceflorida.org
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