Equity in and access to a strong arts education remains an issue for too many students. Yet the research is clear that arts education and learning through the arts is vital to increased participation and graduation rates, social and emotional development and creating innovative, culturally informed, global thinkers who are active citizens that value the arts in life and community.

Using the John F. Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child program, pARTners will work as a collective impact backbone organization with the primary objective to identify, develop, program, align, communicate, and assess arts resources to achieve our vision and ensure access and equity to expanded arts education and arts integration for all students in grades K-8 in the Bethlehem Area School District, and eventually the Lehigh Valley.