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Social Impact Report: Pulse Arts
We are committed to empowering young people with tools to address academic challenges, pursue creative careers and ignite community change through the arts.
01 School day art classes:
Theater
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music
Video Production
Sculpting
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music
Video Production
Sculpting
02
- 40% increase in student engagement
- 25% decrease in chronic absenteeism
- 43% increase in family engagement Community Partnerships tripled
03
- Community / family art workshops, over 200+hrs.
- Collaborative lesson planning
- 50% of teachers creatively redesigned their curricula and found more joy in teaching
- $150 sponsors a student for 10 weeks
- $1500 sponsors a student for the year
- $4500 sponsors a class of 30 for 10 week
- $45k sponsors the class for the year
- $10k sponsors a school mural
- $150k sponsors a school for the year
Special Events sponsored by Pulse Arts
04
Pulse Arts, in support of the Tomlin Dance Academy in Compton, CA provided dance scholarships for students from 186th Street
Elementary School.
05
Antonio Perez is our fall 2023 Otis Intern
06
Lead High School Instructor
Tiffanie Peters is a contemporary visual artist based in Los Angeles, CA. The artist’s continually expanding practice merges and abstraction while processing systems surrounding: western ideas
of beauty, power structures, visibility, art history, academia and categorization. By combining oil paint, ink, pastels and charcoals with
the use of unscratched canvases, she confronts Eurocentric traditions in art history. Leaning into this resistance provides alternative
ways to see, create and live. Tiffanie Peters earned her BA in Interdisciplinary studies at the American University of Rome, Italy and is a 2023 MFA candidate at Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, CA.
Poetry Out Loud competition host High School Gallery
Exhibit in partnership with LA Southwest College Annual Back to School Drive
Exhibit in partnership with LA Southwest College Annual Back to School Drive
Funding
07
- CA Performing Arts Grant Recipient – $50k
- LA County Arts grant recipient- $5600
- Nellie Leaman Taft Foundation Grant recipient- $10k
- Other funding- $175k
- Paid Interns
- High School- 2
- College- 5
09 Student Impact
8 school sites served
Approximately 6500 students
Elementary Schools- 2
Middle Schools- 2
High Schools- 4
Approximately 6500 students
Elementary Schools- 2
Middle Schools- 2
High Schools- 4
Funding
10
School day art classes:
Theater
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music Video
Production
Sculpting
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music Video
Production
Sculpting
11
- 40% increase in student engagement
- 25% decrease in chronic absenteeism
- 43% increase in family engagement
- Community Partnerships tripled
- Community/family art workshops, over 200 + hrs.
- Collaborative lesson planning
- 50% of teachers creatively redesigned their curricula
and found more joy in teaching
$150 sponsors a student for 10 weeks
$1500 sponsors a student for the year
$4500 sponsors a class of 30 for 10 week
$45k sponsors the class for the year
$10k sponsors a school mural
$150k sponsors a school for the year
$1500 sponsors a student for the year
$4500 sponsors a class of 30 for 10 week
$45k sponsors the class for the year
$10k sponsors a school mural
$150k sponsors a school for the year
Approximately
2023 IMPACT
NUMBER
84% black students
About 5500 are on free or reduced lunch
About 20% served have disabilities
About 20% served are systems involved youth
(group home, foster care, probation)
About 10% identify as unhoused
2022-23 THEME:
Technical idea
Arts for All
FUNDING
We advocated for students in alternative schools to receive vital art enrichment opportunities as therapy, as a teaching tool, for career readiness.
Art is not a reward, it’s a necessity.
Courses offered:
Theater
Creative Writing: The Art And Power Of Words
Painting
Collage
Sculpting: Expression Without Words, Color And Emotions, The Power Of Imagery
West African Drum and Dance: Ancestral Communication Through Drum and Dance, The Healing Power Of Drums
The Art Of Movement - NOT dance but learning how the body stores trauma and movements to release.
Audio Production and intro to podcasting (or however you want us to describe your course lol)- the power and art of the voice.
Post Production Training
Summer Dance Intensive K-12 part of the CA Hip Hop Education Grant The roots and fundamentals of Hip Hop and it’s influence in all art forms
Social Impact Report: Pulse Arts
We are committed to empowering young people with tools to address academic challenges, pursue creative careers and ignite community change through the arts.
01 School day art classes
Theater
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music
Video Production
Sculpting
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music
Video Production
Sculpting
02
- 40% increase in student engagement
- 25% decrease in chronic absenteeism
- 43% increase in family engagement Community Partnerships tripled
03
- Community / family art workshops, over 200+hrs.
- Collaborative lesson planning
- 50% of teachers creatively redesigned their curricula and found more joy in teaching
$150 sponsors a student for 10 weeks
1500 sponsors a student for the year
$4500 sponsors a class of 30 for 10 week
$45k sponsors the class for the year
$10k sponsors a school mural
$150k sponsors a school for the year
Special Events sponsored by Pulse Arts
04
Pulse Arts, in support of the Tomlin Dance Academy in Compton, CA provided dance scholarships for students from 186th Street
Elementary School.
Tiffanie Peters is a contemporary visual artist based in
Los Angeles, CA. The artist’s continually expanding practice merges
and abstraction while processing systems surrounding: western ideas
of beauty, power structures, visibility, art history, academia and
categorization. By combining oil paint, ink, pastels and charcoals with
the use of unscratched canvases, she confronts Eurocentric
traditions in art history. Leaning into this resistance provides alternative
ways to see, create and live. Tiffanie Peters earned her BA in Interdisciplinary
studies at the American University of Rome, Italy and is a 2023 MFA candidate
at Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, CA.
05
Antonio Perez is our
fall 2023 Otis Intern
06
Lead High School Instructor
Poetry Out Loud
competition host High School Gallery
Exhibit in partnership with LA Southwest College Annual Back to School Drive
competition host High School Gallery
Exhibit in partnership with LA Southwest College Annual Back to School Drive
Funding
07
- CA Performing Arts Grant Recipient – $50k
- LA County Arts grant recipient- $5600
- Nellie Leaman Taft Foundation Grant recipient- $10k
- Other funding- $175k
- Paid Interns
- High School- 2
- College- 5
Student Impact
8 school sites served
Approximately 6500 students
Elementary Schools- 2
Middle Schools- 2
High Schools- 4
pulseartsla.org
Funding
10
School day art classes:
Theater
Poetry
Painting
Dance
Music Video
Production
Sculpting
11
- 40% increase in student engagement
- 25% decrease in chronic absenteeism
- 43% increase in family engagement
- Community Partnerships tripled
- Community/family art workshops, over 200 + hrs.
- Collaborative lesson planning
- 50% of teachers creatively redesigned their curricula
and found more joy in teaching
$150 sponsors a student for 10 weeks
$1500 sponsors a student for the year
$4500 sponsors a class of 30 for 10 week
$45k sponsors the class for the year
$10k sponsors a school mural
$150k sponsors a school for the year
$1500 sponsors a student for the year
$4500 sponsors a class of 30 for 10 week
$45k sponsors the class for the year
$10k sponsors a school mural
$150k sponsors a school for the year
Approximately
84% black students
About 5500 are on free or reduced lunch
About 20% served have disabilities
About 20% served are systems involved youth
(group home, foster care, probation)
About 10% identify as unhoused
2022-23 THEME:
Technical idea
Arts for All
We advocated for students in alternative schools to receive vital art enrichment opportunities as therapy, as a teaching tool, for career readiness.
Art is not a reward, it’s a necessity.
Courses offered:
Theater
Creative Writing: The Art And Power Of Words
Painting
Collage
Sculpting: Expression Without Words, Color And Emotions, The Power Of Imagery
West African Drum and Dance: Ancestral Communication Through Drum and Dance, The Healing Power Of Drums
The Art Of Movement - NOT dance but learning how the body stores trauma and movements to release.
Audio Production and intro to podcasting (or however you want us to describe your course lol)- the power and art of the voice.
Post Production Training
Summer Dance Intensive K-12 part of the CA Hip Hop Education Grant The roots and fundamentals of Hip Hop and it’s influence in all art forms
