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School Specialty’s Sax® Teams Up with Fresh Artists® to Support Art Education and Empower Young Lives
School Specialty’s Sax® Teams Up with Fresh Artists® to Support Art Education and Empower Young Lives.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n GREENVILLE, Wis., July 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sax®, the premier arts and crafts brand of School Specialty, Inc. (OTCQB:SCOO) (“School Specialty”, “SSI” or “the Company”), is pleased to announce today its new partnership with the national award-winning non-profit, Fresh Artists®. With a shared passion for art education and inspiring student creativity, Sax in collaboration with Fresh Artists, will provide a wide assortment of art making supplies to support innovative programs for K-12 children in under-resourced public schools nationwide. Together, the goal is to change the lives of children and their communities by increasing access to quality art materials and tools.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Figure 1 - Student art mounted in corporate cafeteria.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/a08489b9-52e9-4f0d-8b2f-749c3a8f3faf Great Art Doing GoodFounded in Philadelphia in 2008, Fresh Artists empowers young people as artists and equally important, as philanthropists, by inviting their donation of selected digital images of their artwork to help other children in public schools struggling with slashes in arts funding. Students keep their original artwork and its copyright. Businesses make donations to Fresh Artists and then choose scaled-up high-resolution reproductions of students’ artwork for their facilities as thank-you gifts from the children. This corporate support enables Fresh Artists’ delivery of art supplies and innovative art programs to schools in need. It’s a unique circle of giving where children’s art fulfills a corporate need while raising funds for future art making. The children are empowered as change-makers in the world. Fresh Artists’ programs for students and teachers include Pablo’s Clothesline Art Sale, Mini-Masterpieces, Chip Art, Artful All-Calls, Palates to Palettes, Design Camp, Cool Jobs Pop-Up Expo, Fresh Artists Greenhouse, Fresh Artists Sunday Salons, and Art Kit Grants. Since 2008, the organization estimates that the lives of more than 330,000 young people have been impacted and it has delivered the value of more than a half million dollars in goods and art programs to ar...