Picasso Project Grant Recipients, 2003-2019

Grant Partners (Arts Organizations, Teaching Artists, & other School Project Title Year Community Partners)

2019 F. Amedee Bregy Elementary Another Philadelphia Art Sanctuary

2019 Fitler Academics Plus School The Picasso Poetry Slam Young Audiences New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania

2019 John B. Kelly School Kelly's Living Garden Mindy Flexer

Music, Math, and Magnetism: Jasper Quartet at 2019 John H. Taggart Elementary School Jasper String Quartet Taggart Parkway Northwest High School for Peace 2019 Theatre and the Arts as a Lens into History Quintessence Theatre and Social Justice

2019 Science Leadership Academy Middle School Arts Advocacy Awakening Fabric Workshop and Museum

Poem In Pocket: Advocating for Art to Transform 2019 The U School The Galleries at Moore, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Vision Our Communities

2019 W. B. Saul High School E.A.T.- Edible Art with Technique Tenira McCloy, Nick Gandolfo-Lucia

William Bodine High School for We Shall Overcome: A Timeline Toward Equality & 2019 Philadelphia Young Playwrights International Affairs Justice

2019 Overbrook Education Center Picasso Project School-Based Grant N/A

2019 Cook-Wissahickon School Picasso Project School-Based Grant N/A

2019 William T. Tilden Middle School Picasso Project School-Based Grant N/A

2018 Alexander McClure Elementary School Growing United COSACOSA art at large, Inc., Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team

2018 Clara Barton Elementary School All Are Welcome Here Lynn Denton

2018 Eliza B. Kirkbride School Philadelphia Dreams COSACOSA art at large, Inc., Passyunk Square Civic Association

2018 James Rhoads Elementary Heartbeat at Rhoads ArtWell

2018 John Barry Elementary School I Voted Today Spiral Q

2018 John Bartram High School The Marimba: Mordern Roots Musicopia

2018 John H. Taggart Elementary School Jasper at Taggart Jasper String Quartet Parkway Northwest High School for Peace 2018 Theatre & Acting Come Alive! Quintessence Theatre, Johnnie Hobbs, Jr. and Social Justice

2018 Philadelphia Military Academy Crafting Community! Sue Brackett

2018 Science Leadership Academy Middle School The Voice of Bravery is Yours! Mantua Theater Project

2018 South Philadelphia High School SPHS' "Little Shop of Horrors" Curtis Institute of Music, Alize Rozsnyai

2018 Stephen Girard School The Girard Community Mural Maria Beddia, Friends of Girard

2018 The U School Survival Guide for the Future The Galleries at Moore, Li Sumpter

2018 The Workshop School 9th Grade Play Project Curio Theatre Company

2017 Albert M. Greenfield Elementary Narrative as Soft Sculpture Sinéad Cahill, Fabric Workshop + Museum

COSACOSA art at large, Inc., MelodyVision, Passyunk Square Civic 2017 Andrew Jackson School Roots, Rhymes, & Rhythm Association

2017 Eliza B. Kirkbride School American Dreams COSACOSA art at large, Inc., & Passyunk Square Civic Association 2017 Eugenio Maria de Hostos Charter School Tying It Together: Drum Corps Musicopia

2017 Henry H. Houston Elementary School Keep the Art, Lose the Violence The Clay Studio

2017 Isaac A. Sheppard School Celebrations in Art! Taller Puertorriqueño

2017 John B. Stetson Charter School Printing Our Identity Taller Puertorriqueño

2017 John Bartram High School Bartram Arts Through Gardens Bartram's Garden, Women Against Abuse

2017 John H. Taggart Elementary School Jasper Quartet at Taggart Jasper String Quartet

2017 South Philadelphia High School SPHC Music & Theatre: The Wiz Curtis School of Music

2017 Stephen Decatur Elementary School Living Mural & Garden Trustees of Lower Dublin Academy, Stephen Wasielewski

2017 Tacony Academy Charter High School Tiling Tacony Lynn Denton

2017 The U School Re(New) You Fashion Lab The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design

2017 Thomas Finletter Academics Plus School The Eagles' Nest at Finletter Fresh Artists, Primex Garden Center, Pennsylvania Horticulture Society 2016 Alexander McClure Elementary School Hope Reading Garden CosaCosa art at large, Inc, Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team

2016 Eugenia Maria de Hostos Charter School Dancing Classrooms Dancing Classrooms, Musicopia

Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA, Home & School Association, City on 2016 Fitler Academics Plus School Emerging Artists Youth Café: Voices for Change the Hill Productions, Brown's ShopRite

2016 George W. Childs Elementary Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters Enchantment Theater Company

2016 Henry H. Houston Elementary School A Day in My Life: 2016/2026 LiveConnections

2016 James R. Lowell Elementary School Lowell Magic Garden: United We Stand Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA

2016 Murrell Dobbins CTE High School The Sounds of Dobbins Jr. Music Executive, Blackboard Labs, Marsten House Recording

2016 Pan American Academy Charter School Cacti and Pearls Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA, Congreso de Latinos Unidos Parkway Northwest High School for Peace 2016 Arts, Peace, & Social Justice Sharon Katz and the Peace Train, Arcadia University and Social Justice

2016 Paul L. Dunbar School We Promise CosaCosa art at large, Inc., To Our Children's Future with Health

2016 Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center Video News Magazine Educating Communities for Parenting

2016 South Philadelphia High School South Philadelphia High School Musical Theatre Curtis Institute of Music

2016 Wissahickon Charter School Awbury Awbury Ecosystems Mural Awbury Arboretum

2015 Alain Locke Elementary School Changing Life at Locke Through the Arts Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA

2015 Alexander McClure Elementary School Hope Reading Garden CosaCosa art at large, Inc.

2015 Andrew Jackson Elementary School Pillars of Community CosaCosa art at large, Inc.

Exploring Identity and Community through 2015 Chester Arthur Elementary School Fleisher Art Memorial, FoCA Portraiture, Print, and Bookmaking

2015 F. Amedee Bregy Elementary The Story of Ferdinand Enchantment Theater

2015 Fitler Academic Plus School Emerging Artists Youth Café Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA

2015 James Rhoads Elementary MasterPeace ArtWell

2015 Laura W. Waring School Read and Re-tell: The Other Wes Moore Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA

2015 Samuel Powel Elementary School Greece: The Ancient and Modern Wonder University City Arts League

Southwest Leadership Academy Charter Breaking Injustice: Civil Rights Movement through 2015 Hip Hop Fundamentals School Hip Hop Educational Ecosystems: Exposing Creative 2015 Stephen Girard Elementary All Heart Art Cart Learning

2015 Swenson Arts and Technology High School Stories from the Shortbus Moore College of Art

2015 The Workshop School Power to the People Philadelphia Young Playwrights

2015 William Cramp Elementary School Film Crew @ Cramp Elementary Moore College of Art and Design, CosaCosa art at large, Inc.

2015 Wordsworth Wordsworth Clay Animation The Clay Studio COSACOSA art at large, Inc., Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team, 43rd 2014 Alexander McClure Elementary School Growing United Ward

2014 Allen M. Stearne Elementary Star Power ArcheDream for Humankind, Vervet Dance, Natalie Garcia

2014 Andrew Jackson Elementary School Fabrics, Flowers, Foods COSACOSA art at large, Inc., Passyunk Square Civic Association

2014 Bache-Martin Elementary Corinthian Gardens Outdoor Art The Clay Studio, Friends of Eastern State Penitentiary William Bodine High School for 2014 Portals to the Past/Portals to the Future Bareteeth Performance Crew International Affairs

Young Audiences of NJ & SE PA, Home & School Association, Brown's 2014 Fitler Academic Plus School Emerging Artists Youth Café Shop Rite, SoLo/Germantown Civic Association

2014 George W. Nebinger Elementary Gateway to the Environment Fleisher Art Memorial, Friends of Nebinger, Nebinger HAS

2014 James Rhoads Elementary MasterPeace ArtWell

2014 Samuel Powel Elementary School Latin America: People & Places University City Arts League

2014 Stephen Girard Elementary Printmaking for Art Awareness and Funding All Heart Art Cart

Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Zoo, Brandywine 2014 Swenson Arts and Technology High School Proficient Posters and Advanced Apparel Workshop

2014 Thomas Mifflin Elementary School Cinderella Project PhillyU's P.U.M.P., Friends of Mifflin

Visual & Word Portraits: building Community at 2014 Vare-Washington Elementary Society Hill Synagogue, Fleisher Art Memorial Abigail Vare Elementary School

2014 William Cramp Elementary School Picasso Project at Cramp Taller Puertorriqueño

2013 Andrew Jackson Elementary School Garden of Diversity/Jardin de la Diversidad COSACOSA art at large, Inc., Passyunk Square Civic Association, Juntos

2013 Avery D. Harrington Elementary School The Harlem Renaissance Project Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Jubilee School

2013 Cassidy C. Lewis Elementary School A Peaceable Kingdom: Building Community WHYY

2013 Eugenia Maria de Hostos Charter School Strike up the Band: The Music Man Surprise Musicopia, Taller Puertorriqueño, Walnut St. Theater, Joyce Crosscombe

2013 F. Amedee Bregy Elementary The Lion King Revue Kehinde Ardrey, Elizabeth Greene

Philadelphia Magic Gardens, Friends of Nebinger Home & School 2013 George W. Nebinger Elementary Delaware Estuary Mosaic: One Team, One Planet Association, Queen Village and Bella Vista Neighborhood Associations

2013 Henry H. Houston Elementary School Rural Lane Records Action Harvest

Roses from concrete: Our Neighborhood Music 2013 Middle Years Alternative Dane Tilghman, Pheralyn (Lady) Dove, Samori Coles Experience

Overbrook Arts & Environmental Education Network, Doris Stahl, US 2013 Overbrook Elementary School Come Take a Look at Overbrook Forest Service, Penn State Extension

2013 Samuel Powel Elementary School Terracotta Arts Army Spiral Q, Powel Home & School Association Southwest Leadership Academy Charter 2013 The Rainbow Fish: A Year of Giving Philadelphia Magic Gardens School Brandywine Workshop, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Linda 2013 Swenson Arts and Technology High School Literature Lamps Graham East Falls Community Council, Caroline Davidson, Rainbow Child 2013 Thomas Mifflin Elementary School On the Other Side of the Fence International An American Journey: Connecting the Harlem 2013 Youth Study Center School Renaissance to the Civil Rights Era through Music & Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Art 2012 Andrew Jackson Elementary School Garden of Diversity / Jardin de la Diversidad COSACOSA art at large, Inc.

Cassidy Home & School Association, Peg Pabsc, Esther Cohen-Eskin, 2012 Cassidy C. Lewis Elementary School A Peaceable Kingdom: Building a Community National Liberty Museum

2012 Excel Academy The Recycled Water Cycle: A Mosaic Mural Philadelphia Magic Gardens

2012 F. Amedee Bregy Elementary Tell me a Story Kehinde Ardrey

Fleisher Art Memorial, Friends of Nebinger, Nebinger Home & School 2012 George W. Nebinger Elementary Nebinger Goes Green: One Team One Planet Association, Queen Village Neighborhood Association, Bella Vista Town Watch, Dumpster Divers, Nebinger School Council

2012 Greenfield Elementary School We Dig the Earth The Clay Studio

2012 Grover Cleveland Elementary School From the Same Tree Bridgeway Inc., Isaac Maefield

2012 Henry H. Houston Elementary School Rural Lane Records Action Harvest

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Al-Bustaan Seeds of Culture, Karen 2012 Motivation High School Multicultural Artistic Expressions, Part 2 Pendergrast

2012 Paul Robeson High School "From These Roots" Paul Robeson House

2012 Thomas Mifflin Elementary School The Peaceful Posse Wendy Anderson, FaithVarrrone

2012 William H. Harrison Elementary School Symbolic Self Portraits Nikki Virbitsky, Raphael Fenton-Spaid, Ron Randolf

2011 Alexander McClure Elementary School Many Hearts, Many Hands Kulu Mele Dance, Spiral Q, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

2011 Andrew Jackson Elementary School School of the Suns/ Escuela de los Soles COSACOSA art at large, Inc.

2011 Camelot Excel Academy South My Philadelphia Eric Landes

2011 Henry C. Lea School Lea Visual Arts Project Yvette Almgauer

Comparing and Connecting Cultures of Latin 2011 Kensington Urban Education Academy American Art Through Portrait Painting, Clay, and The Clay Studio, Gray San Angel Diversity Found Object Mobiles Lankenau Environmental Science Magnet Lamont Dixon (Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership), Schuylkill 2011 ART GOES GREEN—Visions of a Sustainable High School Environment Nature Center

2011 Motivation High School Multicultural Artistic Expressions PhilaDanco, Jazz Journeys, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2011 Samuel W. Pennypacker School The Legacy of Dreamers Mike Zerbe, University of Pennsylvania

2011 South Philadelphia High School Building Bridges and Allies at South Philly High Spiral Q

2010 Cayuga Elementary School Clay for Life at Cayuga Taller Puertorriqueño

2010 Cook-Wissahickon School Art & Character Go Hand in Hand Jessica Liddel

2010 Feltonville Intermediate School Lifting Our Cultures and Family Project Spiral Q, Beacon OST

2010 Jay Cooke Elementary Catch the Vibrations at Jay Cooke Musicopia Parkway Northwest High School for Peace 2010 Putting the Arts into SHARE Andrew Puntel, Aaron Blandon and Social Justice

2010 Penn Alexander School The Art of Growing Up The Arts and Spirituality Center

Philadelphia High School for Business and Faces of the Future: From Sculpture to Grisaille to 2010 Susan Niczy Technology Digital Photo Montage Building the Thematic Unit on Latin America 2010 Samuel Powel Elementary School Raíces Culturales Latinoamericanas Through the Arts

Tap Team Two, Rhythm of the Drum, Linda Beiler, Uri Sergeyev, Barbara 2010 Watson Comly Elementary Many Cultures, One Family Siegal, Katherine Pannepacker 2009 Feltonville Intermediate School Lifting up Cultures & Families Spiral Q

Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership, Philadelphia Young 2009 General David Birney School Museum of Many Cultures Playwrights Festival, Dancing Classrooms Philly, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Future Leaders of the World through Arts & Malaika Reid, BahJah, Orrika Choice, Wall Street Beatz, John Canada 2009 Global Leadership Academy Technology Terrell, NuMillenium Sounds, Rockefeller Records, Temple University

Institute of the Arts in Education, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Nai Ni 2009 Guion S. Bluford Elementary School Arts & Culture of China Chen Dance Company

2009 John Turner Middle School Spring into the Arts! Young Audiences of Eastern Pennsylvania

2009 Overbrook Elementary School Picture This! Kenn Nesbitt, R. Alexander Trejo

2009 Samuel Daroff Elementary School Leaving a Legacy Artist in Residence

University of Pennsylvania (East Asian Center, Japanese American Society, 2009 William H. Hunter Elementary School Focus on Asia: First Stop, Japan World Affair Council) Raising Up, Reaching Out: An Alternative Self- 2009 Youth Study Center School Taller Puertorriqueño, Young Playwrights Portrait

2008 E.M. Stanton Elementary School The Shakespeare Project Catherine Slusar

2008 Eugenia Maria de Hostos Charter School Hostos Musical Cooperative Elio Villafranco, Nueva Esperanza

2008 Feltonville Intermediate School Lifting our Cultures and Families Project Spiral Q

2008 Francis Hopkinson School When You Wish Upon A Star Musicopia, James D Ensemble

2008 Joseph Pennell Elementary School What's The Buzz Jessica Gorlin Liddell

2008 Overbrook Elementary School Lens on Life ABC Books, Gary Giles

Parkway Northwest High School for Peace Sankofa: Re-visiting Traditions of Sub-Saharan 2008 Leon Finney, Karambe, Lucien Crump Gallery and Social Justice African Story Telling and Folk Art in the Classroom

2008 Samuel W. Pennypacker School ArtWorks Heather McGuire

2007 E.M. Stanton Elementary School Shakespeare Kathy Slusar

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Spring Garden Community Development 2007 Laura W. Waring School Galleries that Talk Corporation Julia Taylor, Tyrone Davis, Patrice Hawthorne, John McCleary, Morris 2007 Samuel W. Pennypacker School The Hair Wiz and Other Hair Stories Jones

2007 Sheridan West Academy Promoting PEACE through Art and Music Philadelphia Museum of Art

2007 Trinity Head Start Program Crescendo Music Program Academy of Community Music 2006 Andrew J. Morrison School The Masked Ball Renaissance Artist Puppet Theatre

Bridesburg and Beyond: Communities Past and 2006 Bridesburg Elementary School Cheltenham Arts Center Present Through the Arts

2006 E.M. Stanton Elementary School The Shakespeare Project Catherine Slusar

2006 Eleanor Emlen School Eleanor School Community mural Chestnut Hill College

2006 Freire Charter School Promoting PEACE through Art and Music Artists in Residence

2006 General David Birney School Harlem Comes to Birney Artists in Residence

2006 Joseph Leidy Elementary School Puppets with a Purpose Mum Puppet Theater

2006 Overbrook Elementary School Art from Many Lands Artists in Residence

2006 Samuel W. Pennypacker School An African Tale: the Play and the Mural Charles Keenan, Mike Zerbe, Storybook Musical Theatre

2006 William H. Harrison Elementary School Art About Us Fleisher Art Memorial Alternative Middle Years (AMY) at James 2005 Book Arts Project Philadelphia Writing Project Martin School

2005 Austin-Meehan Middle School Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. Choreographer in residence

2005 E.M. Stanton Elementary School Cultural Arts Program The Clay Studio, Nana Korentama, University of the Arts

2005 F.S. Edmonds Elementary School Chicken Soup with Rice Artist in Residence

2005 Feltonville-Horn Elementary School Exploring Multi-Culturalism Through Creative Arts PA Academy of Fine Arts, Cheltenham Arts Center

2005 James R. Lowell Elementary School Music Makes Me Move Artist in Residence

2005 Robert B. Pollock Elementary School Character Through the Arts The Clay Studio

2005 Roxborough High School A Mathematical Quilt Artist in Residence, Germantown YWCA, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2005 William M. Meredith Elementary School Community Cloth: Weaving Cultures Together Fleisher Art Memorial Resistance Through the Arts; Creating Social African American Museum in Philadelphia, Bushfire Theater, Fleisher Art 2004 Anna H. Shaw Middle School Change Memorial, University of the Arts

2004 Austin-Meehan Middle School Broadway Jr. - Annie Artist in Residence

2004 Bok Technical High School Exploring Our Musical Heritage - Three Traditions Strings for Schools

2004 Cayuga Elementary School Hispanic Music: A Multicultural Experience Latin Fiesta Ensemble

2004 Cook-Wissahickon School Enriching Cultural Diversity through Music Young Audiences

2004 Durham Elementary School Moving Toward Connection Movement therapist in residence

2004 Eleanor Emlen School Literacy and the Arts are Family Artist in Residence

2004 Elkin Elementary School An Elkin Cultural Mosaic Esther Cohen-Eskin

2004 Robert B. Pollock Elementary School You've Gotta Have Art PA Council of the Arts, Young Audiences

Germantown Womens Y, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chester County 2004 Roxborough High School A Mathematical Quilt Historical Society, Lancaster Heritage Center

University of the Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Community College of 2004 South Philadelphia High School Diversified Artistic Expressions Philadelphia, City Year, South Philadelphia High School Alumni

Sculpture for the Elderly and Hospitalized Children 2004 William Cramp Elementary School Artist in Residence and Veterans

2004 William Shannon Pierce Middle School Hola Africa! Jambo Spain! Strings for Schools, Doc Gibbs Ensemble

2003 George Washington Elementary School We're Making Music Artist in Residence

Donetsk Ballet of Ukraine, Wissahickon Dance Academy, Simon Gratz 2003 Kenderton School Bridging Ballet Boundaries High School, Girls High

2003 Overbrook Educational Center at Palumbo Music in Our Lives Artist in Residence

2003 Roxborough High School A Mathematical Quilt Philadelphia Museum of Art, Balch Institute, Lancaster Heritage Center

Mum Puppet Theater, Clay Studio, Center for Learning Through 2003 Spring Garden Elementary School The Apercu Project Arts/Books Alive!

Learning About Ourselves and Others Through African American Museum in Philadelphia, Taller Puertorriqueño, Center 2003 Bayard Taylor Elementary School Poetry and Art for Learning Through the Arts, Catalina Rios

2003 William H. Hunter Elementary School Catch the Vibrations Strings for Schools