2011 Artist Outreach Project Grant Recipients

The Picerne Family Foundation is pleased to announce the 2011 Artist Outreach Project grant recipients. For more information about the Artist Outreach Project, contact Victor Nelson, the Executive Director of the Picerne Family Foundation, at 949-267-1517 or email us here.

• ‍Lynn Adams – Visual Artist
  Project: “Once Upon a Tile,” creating individual tiles for a painted tile mural with at risk children at the Boys & Girls Club of San Dieguito‍
• Cynthia Britain – Visual Artist
  Project: Conducting a weekly art program on painting for at-risk, inner-city adolescent girls who live at the Crittenton Residential Treatment Center in Fullerton‍
• Juan Manuel Cortez – Musician, Director
  Project: Capistrano Mariachi Enrichment Project, teaching Mariachi music to Latino students age 5 to 18, and mentoring new music instructors, with the Capistrano Community Mariachi Program in San Juan Capistrano‍
• Stephanie Cunningham – Visual Artist
  Project: Conducting mixed-media art activities for women who are enrolled in the “Battling the Blues” program at the SusiQ Senior Center in Laguna Beach‍
• Nancy Egan – Visual Artist, Educator
  Project: Teaching drawing and oil painting to at-risk young people age 12-18 at the Boys & Girls Club in San Clemente‍
• Barbara Gothard – Visual Artist, Educator
  Project: Art and Sustainability, teaching first generation, college-bound high school students to create environmentally conscious works of art at the Preuss School UCSD in San Diego‍
• Donald Harrell – Musician, Educator
  Project: Giving private trumpet and cornet lessons to students who cannot afford music instruction, at schools in Placentia‍
• Georgia Freedman Harvey – Visual Artist
  Project: Leading one-on-one art sessions and workshops with teens who live with chronic illness at CHOC Hospital in Orange County‍
• Marcos Martinez – Actor, Director, Educator
  Project: Providing performing arts instruction to underserved Latino English Language learners of all ages, in partnership with the Center ARTES‍
• Jo McLaclan – Actor, Teacher
  Project: Introducing seniors to improvisational theater at affordable senior housing communities, in collaboration with the EngAGE organization‍
• Nancy Pricetta – Visual Artist
  Project: Leading after-school art projects for students with special needs at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School in Encinitas‍
• Karen Wilkening – Visual Artist, Teacher
  Project: Leading expressive arts therapy groups for adults recovering from substance abuse and low income children and adults in Northern San Diego County