July 17, 2024 UTSA and Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Commit Funding to Youth Art
UTSA has reached a milestone in matching funds from a $500,000 grant made by the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation to support and expand UTSA Arts’ Young Artist Programs. By adding matching gifts from other local and national foundations over the past year, the grant from the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation will yield a total gift commitment of $750,000.
UTSA Arts was established in 2022 to support community arts education, public-facing performances and exhibitions, and arts-based research and partnerships that enhance the accessibility of the arts for the general public. UTSA Arts’ Young Artist Programs provide high quality visual arts education services primarily to low-income children and teens in San Antonio.
“The Young Artists Programs at the UTSA Southwest Campus have been developed over the course of five decades by the professional arts administrators at the former Southwest School of Art and have become one of the largest and most outstanding visual arts education programs established for low-income students in San Antonio,” said Heather Shipley, UTSA provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. “Arts programs have the potential to teach children and teens valuable skills for future success including critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence. We are grateful to the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation for providing the resources that UTSA needs to support thousands of youth artists within our community with this valuable instruction.”
The vision for the Young Artists Programs is to kindle, nurture and celebrate the creative ability of children in San Antonio by providing youth with high quality experiences in the visual arts. By fostering the creativity of the city’s young people, the Young Artist Programs empower children and youth to learn and grow creatively and to acquire skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.
This support from Kronkosky will help us to take the very talented high school and middle students in this program to the next level.
