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The Doel Reed Center in Taos is blessed to be part of the Taos community. As part of a land-grant university, it is one of our missions to serve as an educational resource for the surrounding community.
Taos Interactive School for the Arts
The Doel Reed Center recently partnered with Taos Interactive School for the Arts , a charter school whose goal is to encourage children to become confident, creative, compassionate individuals.
The K-8 school offers an arts-integrated curriculum consisting of visual arts, theater, sciences, music and writing. This year, through voluntary donations from Leisure Learning attendees, the center is providing much needed art supplies for TISA students.
"The supplies will certainly be welcome and much appreciated. As we return to in-person classes this fall, our students will be required to furnish their own art supplies. COVID-19 has caused enormous financial hardships on many of the parents of our children and they won’t be able to afford the needed materials. The art supplies given by the Doel Reed Center will be a real blessing to our students, their parents and our teachers. We certainly appreciate the Doel Reed Center in Taos’ philanthropy efforts to support and encourage our young people," said Cassandra Bates, TISA art teacher.
Doel Reed Center director Carol Moder and her husband Brewster Fitz recently hosted a four day workshop at the Center for fifth through eighth grade TISA art students led by Cassandra Bates and Luis Garcia, local Taos artist. The DRC campus provided the perfect venue for the event, with its new outdoor Ramada and Doel Reed studio facilities.
“Our young art students have been cooped up for over a year with the pandemic without much exposure to their love for the arts. They were so thrilled to attend the workshop at the Doel Reed Center," Bates said. "They learned so much about printmaking and loved learning the techniques for reproducing art. It was a magical hands-on experience for the students and we look forward to additional workshops in the future.”
