Katy ARTreach locates funds through grant-writing and donations to bring Art programs to communities in need. You can help make a difference in the life of a child through Art. Become involved by volunteering to be an Art Mentor and a child's friend through art, or by making a tax-deductible donation supporting your favorite

MENTORING THROUGH ART
Katy ARTReach pairs art mentors with Children at Risk, Troubled Youth, Families in Crisis and the Elderly as identified through our school districts and local social service organizations in the Katy/Fort Bend County area.

Mentoring Through Art can become the vehicle for establishing a long term and caring relationship between a mentor and a child. Katy ARTReach Mentors provide support and encouragement to children at risk, the troubled youth, families in crisis and the elderly through weekly one-on-one sessions and small group workshops. Art can become an avenue for expressing emotion, as well as a positive and creative outlet for children and adults in need.

ARTS in EDUCATION
Katy ARTReach provides Art Educational support to under-served school communities, social service organizations and foster care facilities supporting troubled youth and children at risk.

Katy ARTReach Arts in Education Program incorporates weekly art classes, in house theater, dance and performing art programs, artist in residence and composer in residence programs, field trips to art museums and local artist studios as well other opportunities as available through collaboration and partnerships with community non-profit art organizations and Katy ARTReach art business partners. (link to community links page)

ENTREPRENEURIAL ART WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Katy ARTReach designs this workshop program for specific communities in need. This program encourages student interest in the arts and introduces basic entrepreneurial and business concepts through the creation of artwork-to-end-product note cards, stationary, ceramics, woodcrafts etc. The program teaches necessary skills in printmaking, silk screening, ceramic design and glazing techniques. The program incorporates product packaging, along with marketing and direct sales of the final artwork. 

TROUBLED YOUTH
Katy ARTReach is developing and managing the Arts in Education Program for The Krause Children's Treatment Center. The Krause Center is a residential treatment center managed by Lutheran Social Services of the South, www.lsss.org  The Krause Center provides skilled professional treatment for boys and girls, ages 11 to 17 who are suffering from behavioral and emotional problems, often as the result of abuse and neglect. 

All children need to be exposed to the arts. The children at Krause need to be given opportunities to experience Art, Drama, Music and Dance. Art is an incredible vehicle for expression. Art can be utilized and developed as a coping mechanism by providing a valuable communication outlet for many of these children. Katy ARTReach designs art programs specific to the community served. The Arts in Education program incorporates weekly art classes, theater programs, artist and composer in residence programs, field trips to museums, local artist studios along with jazz and classical music concerts. Katy ARTReach seeks necessary funding and subsidies through collaboration with other non-profit art organizations providing outreach programs designed to enrich the lives of the underprivileged. 

FAMILIES IN CRISIS
Katy ARTReach seeks funding to provide art mentors, art workshops and craft activities for Families in Crisis located through Katy Christian Ministries Domestic Abuse Counseling Program. www.ktcm.org  

THE ELDERLY
Katy ARTReach implements art programs designed for the elderly. Katy ArtReach specifically locates support for art and craft programs serving the elderly residents of Katyville Medical Care Facility and other Katy/North Fort Bend County public nursing homes. Katy ArtReach works to locate funds, provide volunteers and train art mentors to work with patients suffering from stroke, Alzheimer's disease and other ailments associated with aging.