Arts LIFT

05/01/2025

Arts LIFT Applications now open!!!! APS Students grades 9-12 welcome to apply! https://forms.gle/nPFAajCjLtMyCR8V9

04/30/2024

Arts LIFT is looking for a few bold high schoolers from Akron Public Schools who want to make a MAJOR indoor MURAL for the Akron International Institute this summer! Work with Myers School of Art faculty and artists and a bunch of new friends this June 3-June 7 from 9-3pm to do something BIG, IMPORTANT, AMAZIN'!

If you or anyone you know LOVES ART, LIKES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE in your community, and is interested in HELPING DESIGN & PAINT a vibrant welcoming space at the Institute for immigrants and refugees resettling in Akron, please consider applying to the Arts LIFT program ASAP. Applications due May 24, and can be found through this link! https://forms.gle/7urNsDiV9Qe8zbTR8

04/09/2022

Arts LIFT is BACK Friends!!! Interested APS High School students should apppppply! Like, NOW! Please share. For more info and application, click on the links:
INFO:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ktf48Np_UrvcbpLWTeVph1vAB5_VEH6zoPrBRH6btTw/edit?usp=sharing APPLY:https://forms.gle/5D2SPeBfyxmrYSBR9

ARTS LIFT 2022 Summer Art Program Arts LIFT is a summer art program for APS high school students run by the University of Akron’s Myers School of Art faculty, Elisa Gargarella and an APS art legend teacher named Dan Coffield. From June 6-June 15 from 9am-1pm each day, you and 15 other APS student....

04/27/2021

Hey Y'all! Arts LIFT is back for some LIVE, IN PERSON, ART MAKIN, MUSIC PLAYIN, LOUD LAUGHIN action!!!

If YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW is a High School student from APS and is interested landscape design or 2D and 3D art in general, this free summer program is most totally for you!

Join Arts LIFT June 7-June 18 for spot on our team and help us transform a secret garden on UA's campus into a wildflower and sculpture oasis!! Use the link below to apply for this super fun opportunity!
https://forms.gle/11nZAxg9s1MvD6uCA

PLEASE SHARE! And remember, Arts LIFT is only offered to Akron Public School students (entering 9th through 13th grade). For more info, PM us!

08/07/2020

For Week 5 student artists were asked staged (or capture) some magic moments where they could photograph feelings.

They were challenged with how a photographer can help an audience share or understand their feelings, moods, joys, celebrations, or heaviness. How can they generate empathy in their viewers for the things they think are important or interesting or disturbing?

Check out some of their amazing works below!

07/17/2020

For Week 4, the artists had to consider not just people, places, and things but what are they doing, where are they, and why are those things important and to start to use their images to tell us a story! Check out what they came up with!

07/06/2020

Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the way humans interact in only a three month time frame. Our students were asked to showcase how this has impacted their communication with their friends and family during this time.

Check out some of the highlights!