Arts in Schools Collaborative

In 2007 Jane Brooks, Joyce Burd and Harvey Kimmel founded Arts in Schools Collaborative with an organizational mission of bringing the arts to the inner city schools. Our primary program is Dancing Classrooms Philly, a licensed ballroom dancing program for Philadelphia schoolchildren, launched in September 2007.

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Advisory Board

Dorothy Binswanger
Rosemary Cataldi
Dr. Dennis Creedon
Dr. Evan Fieldston
Marjorie Klein
Michael Norris

Partners, Sponsors, and Supporters

Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia
Berwind Family Corporation
Business Volunteers for the Arts
The Solomon and Sylvia Bronstein Foundation
Connelly Foundation
Do-Gooders
Drexel University
Samuel S. Fels Fund
Friends of Dancing Classrooms Philly
Glenmede Trust
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
The Hamilton Family Foundation
Virginia & Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund
Lincoln Financial Foundation
The Philadelphia Foundation
Phoebe Charitable Trust "A"
PNC Bank
Rosenlund Family Foundation
St. Christopher's Foundation for Children
Temple University
University of the Arts
Debbie Zateeny, Zateeny Loftus, LLP
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Board of Directors

Tina Bregman
Jane Brooks, Co-Executive Director
Joyce W. Burd, Co-Executive Director
Paul Curci
Jeffrey Freedman, Esq.
Harvey Kimmel, Chairman of the Board
Ray Lawrence
Zoe Pappas
Vanessa Thomas-Smith

2009-2010 Teaching Artists

*Jaye Allison
Marck Flaco Best
Donna Boyle
Linda Camardo
*Nora Fitzgerald
Ellen Gerdes
Alexa Hibbert
Nya McCarthy-Brown
Steve Mesh
*Joyce Harwood Ratner
Ahalia Simmons
Mafalda Thomas-Bouzy
Elise Billock Tropea
Kate Rast
Bess Mattern Witcosky

*fall semester only