Clay Community Arts

CLAY COMMUNITY ARTS

Clay Community Arts was created in 2006 with the mission to enhance the quality of life by providing community-based educational opportunities in the arts and sciences throughout the state. Lyell Clay made this program possible with his generous gift to the Clay Center in 2007. After more than a year of planning, the Clay Center will launch this brand new program for 2008-2009.

Goals

Over the next three years, Clay Community Arts will:

• Provide quality music lessons and musical instruments to young people in Clay, Mason, Lincoln and Mingo counties.
• Provide adult music education programming at the Clay Center with scholarships to reach underserved participants.
• Expand programming to include additional West Virginia Counties.

Community Outreach Manager Kate McComas was hired to facilitate the design and implementation of this new program. Her background includes arts and arts program management from her experience as individual artist program coordinator for the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and more recently as the executive director of the MountainMade Foundation.