Kids Reconstruct with Creativity: Resources for Reconstruction

Kids Reconstruct with Creativity is a special project of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.

Support is provided by our generous leadership sponsors:

Generous support also provided by:

Mississippi Louisiana Florida Regional South

Mississippi:

http://www.lmdc.org/
The Lynn Meadows Discovery Centintegrates a premichildren's museum focused on the history, culture, and ecology of the Gulf Coast with a full slate of year-round and summprograms in the visual and performing arts.

http://www.arts.state.ms.us/
The Mississippi Arts Commission is the official service agency for the arts in the state, and acts as a major supportand promotof arts education and art in community life.

http://www.msculturalcrossroads.org/
Mississippi Cultural Crossroads is a local agency that serves Port Gibson and Claiborne counties and focuses particularly on African-American culture and expression.

http://www.usm.edu/smwp/
The South Mississippi Writing Project, located at the University of Southern Mississippi, offers statewide programs and conferences for writing teachers that empowers them to bring new materials and methods back to their schools. The Project also serves as a key resource for writing workshops and camps for young people.

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/writing_project/
The University of Mississippi Writing Program, like the South Mississippi Writing Project, is an affiliate of the National Writing Project, and offers expanded programs and resources thanks to its home at Ole Miss.

Mississippi Poetry Society c/o Emory Jones Department of English Northeast Community College 101 Cunningham Booneville, MS 38829 Telephone: (601) 728-7751

Mississippi Writers Association
P.O. Box 1278 Jackson, MS 39215
Telephone: (601) 352-6864

Louisiana:

http://www.lparts.org/index.cfm
The Louisiana Partnership for the Arts has organized an extremely helpful Displacement Contact Database for the latest information on how to contact displaced organizations.

http://www.artshurricanerelief.org/
Arts Unite for Hurricane Relief has been established by the Swine Palace at Louisiana State University Department of Theatre as an organization in support of artists who are working to bring relief to hurricane victims.

http://www.lcm.org/
The Louisiana Children's Museum features wonderful interactive exhibits as well as art camps during the holidays and the summertime. Its unique teaching outreach program brings learning directly to local classrooms.

http://www.ya4la.org/
Young Audiences/Arts For Learning is a non-profit arts-in-education organization that serves approximately 200,000 school children in Louisiana each year with programs in music, theatre, dance, language and visual arts.

http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/programs/slwp/
The Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project is a National Writing Project site and is part of a national network of outstanding teachers. It is a good resource for teachers seeking to reinvigorate their creative writing curriculums and gain solid training in their craft.

http://www.yayainc.com/
Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA), Inc. is a non-profit and social service organization "whose mission is to provide educational experiences and opportunities that empowartistically talented inn-city youth to be professionally self-sufficient through creative self-expression." The New Orleans site has focused a lot of attention recently on community art projects as the city rebuilds.

http://www.artscouncilofneworleans.org/
The Arts Council of New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization providing programs and services to artists, arts organizations, the business community, and city government.

Florida:

http://www.arts4learning.org/welcome.aspx?sid=12
Arts4Learning: This site is for teachers and teaching artists to use in planning, creating, and conducting classroom activities that enrich student learning in and through the arts.

http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/print/nwps/187
The Writing Project at Florida Gulf Coast University offers a full slate of programs and conferences for teachers and teaching writers to bring their expertise back to their classrooms.

http://www.miamichildrensmuseum.org/events.html
The Miami Children's Museum offers hundreds of bilingual, interactive exhibits; programs and classes and learning materials related to arts, culture, community and communication.

Regional South:

http://www.southarts.org/
The Southern Arts Federation has established an Emergency Relief Fund to assist arts organizations and artists residing in Gulf Coast communities most devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.alternateroots.org/
The Alternate Roots Focused Funding program provides support to Roots artists from the affected areas who are organizing community arts projects with shelters, evacuee centers, and community organizations.

http://www.education.noaa.gov/
NOAA Education Advancing Environmental Literacy: This site provides resources to educate and inform students and teachers about hurricanes themselves-the science and art of formation and response.

http://gcwriters.org/
The Gulf Coast Writers Association is a nationally recognized organization established to encourage and inspire local writers throughout the Gulf Coast regional area.

http://www.artsusa.org/
Americans for the Arts Relief Fund is a permanent fund developed to provide timely financial assistance to areas impacted by a major disastfor the purpose of helping them rebuild the arts in their communities.