Room 111 — $22,550

Curricular Area: Arts

Grant Focus: Arts in Education

Schools: WSPIS

This grant funds Room 111. Room 111 is a program of Arts in Education of the Gorge which is provided two days a week to every 5th and 6th grader at Wallace and Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School. Working across three rotating workstations staffed by teaching artists, students engage in hands-on creative projects — photography, storytelling, cooking, and visual art — explicitly tied to core academic content in writing, math, science, technology, and culture, while also supporting the social-emotional development students navigate during the transition from elementary to middle school. The 2026–27 program will deepen curriculum integration with arts projects aligned to specific unit plans, from ratios and fractions to personal narrative writing to earth science, building lasting lesson materials for teachers and students well beyond the grant period.