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Jeremy sorting lettuce at Food for Families

Students and staff celebrated on  August 23rd as art teacher, Justine Wollaston, was presented with a grant check for $2503 from the Art After Five Association.  Art After Five is  a group of professionals who attend gallery openings and celebrate the arts in Dallas. Each year they raise money and donate the funds to a nonprofit organization involved in art education.

With this grant, the art department will be expanding our art library, purchasing a video series that discusses art and the history of man, buying more paint supplies, and restocking clay, glass for etching, new paint for glass, and rigid wrap, etc. This year we plan to practice drawing skills, learn about perspective, build coil pots, discuss our Rorschach paintings, create self portraits in collage, visit area museums, practice sculpting with a variety of materials, and learn about famous artists and what they did to influence the world.

Students practice art in a hands-on, risk-free environment. This grant will help our students to grow not only intellectually, but emotionally and socially as well. Art will be a therapeutic opportunity for students to express themselves creatively.

Art After Five Grant

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Want to help Walden? Each year Walden holds an auction to raise money for the school. Last year’s “Moroccan Nights” Auction was a great success, and we are looking forward to raising more money at this year’s auction. If you would like to help plan, host, or make much needed donations to this year’s auction, please contact Pamala at 972-233-6883, or pamala@waldenprepschool.org.

Whether it is hot or cold, rain or shine, if it’s the third Friday of the month, you’ll find Walden students and staff working hard in an Irving parking lot. Each month students and faculty work with the North Texas Food Bank to distributing large amounts of food to needy families. Students and volunteers unpack, sort and divide large flats of food from the Food Bank. Once the food is ready, it is loaded into waiting cars.

Since 2004, Walden students have been distributing an average of 14,000 pounds of food to area families each month. This year alone, students have helped over 900 families and distributed over 100,000 pounds of food. Food Bank COO Paul Wunderlich describes, "Walden made it possible to open the Irving Food For Families site. The agencies needing to distribute the food there did not have enough volunteers to support the program. Without Walden's involvement, the Irving area would not be served by this program."

Food for Families is just one of the ways Walden students work to make their community better. If you would like to help us at Food for Families, meet us at the school on the third Friday of each month at 9:00am.

Walden Auction 2008

Food for Families

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