All Quad City Arts programs are partially supported by Festival of Trees, Quad City Arts P art ners and operating grants from the Iowa Arts Council and the Illinois Arts Council, both state agencies. Jeanne O'Melia and Terry Mesich received a grant from the Access program. O'Melia and Mesich want to show the students at Perry School that art is for everyone. O' Melia has worked with the students at Perry School before so she is familiar with the routine of the students and they know her too. Perry School in Davenport is an alternative school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students with behavior disorders.
Art is extremely useful and important for expressing one's self.
It begins with working with the students on making pillow people. Next, the students will move outside to work in the marsh near their school. It was already a school project to clean-up the marsh by picking up the litter. O'Melia and Mesich expanded upon that to show students they can create something beautiful out of other people's trash. The 'recycle art' or 'green art' collage will be a visual reminder of the effects garbage has on other people and the planet.