Music is Art

Incorporated in 2004, The Music is Art Foundation strives to promote and educate music and art within the community and schools throughout the year. Programs include (not limited to):

High School Awareness Tour
Music based motivational assembly focusing on personal responsibility. To date the tour has been invited to more then 100 schools and performed before more than 80,000 high school students.
This free program, designed by musicians, directly addresses the needs of disenfranchised students by reinforcing the notion that self-motivation positively impacts personal satisfaction and fulfillment; and that the acceptance of personal responsibility leads to more intuitive and positive decision making. Further, students with even a peripheral interest in music are shown alternate career paths within the industry.
For more info:
www.musicisarttour.org

Instrument Drive
Community involved musical instrument collection for redistribution to local schools. We are proud that this out reach has placed more than $100,000 worth of refurbished instruments in needy schools.

Music is Hope
Music based programming to assist in local not-for-profit fund raising efforts. In 2005 Music is Art released Music Is Hope a CD to help raise funds for Summit Academy, a facility specializing in the needs of developmentally challenged children focusing on Autism.

Event Programming
Co-production of community based events such as Rockin at the Knox, a fund raiser for the world renown Albright-Knox art gallery, and Party for the Parks, which helps raise money for the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

Music is Art Festival
Now entering its fourth year our festival has grown from 3,500 curiosity seekers to 75,000 fans from throughout Western New York and Southern Ontario. The festival features the finalists of a Teen Battle of the Bands; an event organized through schools. 05 saw a rare first as Robby Takac of the Goo Goo Dolls performed live with students from a local high school. The festival also features a Kids Zone.

Teen Battle of the Bands

Every year Music is Art sponsors a teen talent search. We provide schools with all the materials needed to produce their very own Battle of the Bands. These events are student run and are used to raise money for various charities. At the end of the school year MiA stages a "Final Battle." The prizes include recording time and a chance to headline the Music is Art Festival. 2006 Teen Band of the Year Charles Wants to Kiss You Goodbye is putting the finishing touches their EP and has been invited to perform at St. Bonaventure College, The Albright Knox Art Gallery.

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Music in Action
Music in Action is a year long, research-driven, intensive 80+ hour experiential training program of 36 teaching modules, each driven by one or more of the learning standards (academic enrichment) and developmental assets (youth development), delivered to teams of 15 students grade 9-11.
Outcomes are real world industry skills an attitude of industry, self improvement (character ed.), networking and leadership.

Girlz Rock Clinic
Music is Art presented our first annual Girlz Rock Clinic in 2006, a
two day guitar/songwriting instructional clinic taught by Grammy nominee Lisa
Loeb and indie pop punkers The Juliet Dagger. Twelve girls ages 13-17 were eligible to win two special VIP passes (one child + a parent), one night hotel stay, and guitar/song writing lessons. The clinic took place during the Fourth Annual Music is Art Festival '06, a two day music and arts festival in Buffalo, NY on June 10th and 11th.

H.E.A.R.T. for Mental Health
H.E.A.R.T., Comprised of Music is Art, Crisis Services, Healthy Community Alliance and the Mental Association of Erie County, is a coalition offering a program to schools that is designed to increase awareness of mental health among adolescents who are dealing with issues related to suicide, relationships, alienation, loneliness & bullying, and how these issues may affect them individually, their peers, and their family.
Music is Art opens the program by having a national recoding artist present a motivational concert assembly during the school day. Band members also spend time with students either individually or in a classroom setting.

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