page_title: ArtsBridge
section_title: Reason for creation
hierarchical_section_title: ArtsBridge / Reason for creation
caption_attribution_description: English: The ArtsBridge logo created for the expansion of ArtsBridge from the campus of UC Irvine to all campuses of the University of California.
context_page_description: ArtsBridge is a university scholarship program in the United States created by Lawrence University president Jill Beck in April 1996 when she was dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. She brought together groups of local elementary pupils to receive arts training from UCI arts majors. It was designed to attract public and private funding to support scholarships for top arts graduate and undergraduate students who commit themselves to teaching their speciality to one or more classes of K-12 pupils in local schools.
context_section_description: The program was a response to two perceived needs: (1) to provide financial aid to university students and (2) to help primary and secondary schools whose arts budgets had been wiped out by several economic downturns in California, including the passage in 1978 of Proposition 13  which restricted property taxes to such an extent that educational commitments to  
  the state's children could not be met.  "ArtsBridge Scholars" aimed to fill in the arts gap by partnering with classroom teachers and teaching dance, drama, music or studio arts directly to pupils, requiring no payment from the schools' budgets and often providing the classes with musical instruments, cameras, and other physical accessories necessary to each art.
caption: ArtsBridge logo 1998, at the time of expanding throughout UC campuses
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