What We Stand For

Everything Positive, Nothing Negative

The 2009 year ended with Alcott going out into the local KCK USD 500 and the Turner school districts doing Art and Craft classes. Pictures to be posted soon.

The 2010 year is starting the way that 2009 ended with Alcott going to both KCK and the Turner schools doing the Arts and Craft classes once more. We will try to do as many projects out and about as possible to help out the strapped school districts. Due to there not being enough money at this time to fund a lot of extra curricular activities the teachers are having to pay for materials in the class rooms themselves, so we feel a need to lessen the burden on them. 

We will try do do as many projects for free or at as low of a cost as possible but funds are always an issue. As many of you know Alcott is not functioning at this time and has never operated by grant funding, so we can use as much help as we can get.  

We are in the planning stages of the 2010 season at this time.

Check back often to see what’s coming your way this year.

The Alcott Arts Center is Closed for the Winter

Take a look at what has happened at Alcott in the past during our warm months. So much more could happen if we were open year round.

The L.M. Alcott Art Center Foundation will continue to offer as much as possible outside of the Arts Center during our buildings closed months. Alcott will be doing remote art and craft programs around the city and will be planning another fun year of Art at the Alcott Arts Center for 2010.

The Alcott Arts Center

Needs Heat!

In 2002 we bought a building that did not have a heat source. So, each year, we close the building after our Halloween Trunk or Treat that we host for the kiddies.

So, we close down for the winter, it’s something we have done for eight years. Our goal is to have a heating and cooling system ran by solar, geothermal or some other renewable energy source. Allowing us to stay open year round. We could do so much more for everyone.

That may transpire at some time in the distant future, but till then we produce all we can from April through October. Hey and everything we have done, has been accomplished through money raised from donations and fundraisers. While it’s never been enough to pay salaries or get us heat we try to at least offer the Artistic Opportunities our mission statement mandates, while we are open.  When you look at all of the pictures (we have several years of pictures still to load on the website) from events pages on this site just ask yourselves what it takes to accomplish this much without grants. I’ll tell you; it’s all due to people deciding that no matter what a person’s self value and need to be monetarily compensated is, it can be set aside to help others. It’s all about volunteerism, without the selfless people that help Alcott, nothing would happen. They receive our unending appreciation and some even get rooms named after them.

Alcott is a 501(c)(3), 509(a)(2) Not for Profit Public Charity.