Timea Griset's story begins with a meaningful international experience where she earned a degree in primary education, mastered three languages, and became passionate about the health and vibrancy of local communities. 
 
She has 14 years of experience in the medical field, but ultimately her passion for education, more than a decade of work with non-profit organizations and a strong belief that art can transform lives led her to Arts For The Schools. She believes learning through the arts enforces critical academic skills overall, teaches children to trust their ideas and believe in themselves and encourages all of us to explore a world of new possibilities.
 
She embraces art and nature in her personal life. She's an avid runner, practices yoga, loves to go hiking, and tries to beat my amazing husband up the hill when cross-country skiing. She seeks art through her personal exploration of literature, music, drawing, and architecture. Making art and nature a priority in her life keeps her balanced, open-minded, and positive.
 
She is very excited and feels grateful to have joined the Arts For The Schools team as Youth Programs Coordinator.

Welcome to the Arts For The Schools Team Timea!

June 20, 2018 - For Immediate Release: onSTAGE Live subscriptions on Sale July 15th!
Each year Arts For The Schools presents acclaimed cultural performing artists in music, dance, theater and other progressive art forms in regional venues. onSTAGE Live is about bringing community members together, celebrating cultural arts and learning about each other. Each year we bring artists from all over the world including from Europe, China, South America and across the US for live shows right here in Truckee and Tahoe. We also celebrate Hispanic Heritage month each year with a Hispanic artist. This year will be celebrating with Flor De Tolache from the Bronx, NY - an all women Mariachi group that is breaking all the rules.

​​Arts For The Schools’ launching it’s 3rd annual Wooden Boat Challenge on September 22nd at Commons Beach in Tahoe City.
A day festival with live music, activities for children, food options, drinks, and a beer garden; but the main event is the Challenge itself. Pre-registered teams of four will be provided with the materials to build a wooden boat (here’s the catch!) without power tools. After three hours of building time, the teams then have to race their hand-made boats in Lake Tahoe. Of course, there is a 1st place prize but other awards, such as funniest boat andbest craftsmanship, will also take home some prized goodies.
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A festival and fundraiser that combines a unique challenge for participating teams but also provides entertainment for all ages, and types, of people.

​Made In Tahoe 2018 is Saturday, May 26th and Sunday, 27th!

Arts For The Schools will be hanging out and making a few easy crafts with the kids. We want you to volunteer with us and enjoy your time just like we do!

Questions?
Call Jen at the Arts For The Schools office, 530-582-8278 or email: jen@artsfortheschools.org



​See you at Made In Tahoe!

​We are still awestruck from Contra-Tiempo's performance at North Tahoe High Theater on April 27th! An amazing multilingual performance work that created visual and sonic vocabulary that collages Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater and original music, brought dynamic multi-modal experiences to the stage and the audience. We thank Contra-Tiempo all the way from Los Angeles, for visiting us and the children at Alder Creek Middle School, Truckee High School, Incline Middle School and North Tahoe School.

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Keep up with Contra-Tiempo and their future shows at: ​http://www.contra-tiempo.org

Artist in Bloom is an opportunity for students to showcase their artwork created in Arts For The Schools' 14-week visual arts program. Your child has kindly donated one piece of art for us to frame your family, as a fundraiser for art supplies. These artworks will be available at your child's open house. Each art work is a suggested donation of $15.

​Truckee Elementary School
May 3rd
5:30-7:00pm

Donner Trail Elementary 
May 17th
5:00-6:30pm

Tahoe Lake Elementary  
May 31st
6:00-7:30pm

​Kings Beach Elementary 
June 5th
5:00-7:00pm

Glenshire Elementary School
June 7th
5:00-7:00pm


​Missed your child's open house? Their artwork is still available to take home!
​Please call our offices at 530-582-8278

​​Visit Plumas Bank to cast your vote for your favorite non-Profit, Arts For The Schools! You can visit your local branch or send Plumas a message on Facebook.

For more information, visit: www.plumasbank.com

Thank you to Plumas Bank for including Arts For The Schools as one of the many awesome non-profit organizations in our community!

​Join us at the 3rd Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival presented by Mountain Area Preservation this Friday, April 20th at the Community Arts Center in downtown Truckee to win 2 tickets to see CONTRA-TIEMPO!

Tickets for the festival are available at www.mapf.org! Doors & Box Office Open at 5:00 PM, Films Start at 6:00 PM.

​Thank you to MAP for allowing Arts For The Schools to be apart of this wonderful visual arts event!

​Rain, snow and hail didn't stop Arts For The Schools from having a good time at Winter WonderGrass 2018! Thank you to our Teaching Artists, Volunteers and Kids for helping and hanging with us! We offered different activities such Tahoe Trout making - fabric trout stuffed with newspaper, Pickin with Pastels - drawing bluegrass instruments with Artist Anja and Dancer Wands - made with recycled materials. 

We look forward to next year, rain or shine!

​We are counting down the days until Winter Wonder Grass 2018! Thank you to everyone who reached out and asked about volunteering. 

Have purchased your tickets yet?
If you haven't and are buying online, select Arts For The Schools when purchasing tickets to give $1 back to Kids! 

Please stop by the Kid Zone tent to say hello or bring your Little WonderGrasser for some activities!

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Are you ready for Winter Wondergrass? We are! Returning again in 2018, Arts For The Schools brings back the Kids Zone, Art Classes and a creative hang out space during the Festival.

Want to volunteer during the show? Email jen@artsfortheschools to sign up. Volunteers receive a 3 day festival pass for helping out! ​

​The TTUSD Transportation Department has reschedule the STEAM & CTE Fair due to the predicted storm for tomorrow - Thursday, March 1st. TTUSD and Arts For The Schools is committed to safety of the student attendees.

The new date for the STEAM & CTE Fair is scheduled to take place on June 11th, 2018 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the Truckee Donner Recreation Center (same location).

Arts For The Schools and TTUSD looks forward to seeing you there!

Rahim AlHaj born in Baghdad, Iraq began playing the oud (the grandfather of all stringed instruments) at age nine. In 2015 Rahim was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship and was also nominated for two Grammy awards. 

He wowed Truckee Elementary, (in the video above) and a large audience at The Community Arts Center for AFTS onStage live public show.

Arts For The Schools owes a big Thank You to Rahim and his trio for coming to "have fun with us"! 

Urban Jazz Dance Company, lead by Antoine Hunter brought professional deaf & hearing dancers to 628 children in the Truckee Tahoe area . Public audience members and students alike were shown how to use sign language to communicate with Antoine and the dancers during the performance. Urban Jazz Dance Company taught all audience members that no matter who you are, your dreams are possible. ​