The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission recently announced that the Parkview Homes Community Center, in affiliation with the University of Georgia College of Education will receive a $1,500 grant for a literacy center. In the fall of 2017, the College of Education at the University of Georgia and the Athens Housing Authority entered into a cooperative partnership to allow members of the Department of Language and Literacy Education to start a community literacy center at the Parkview Community Center.
This partnership aims to build a hub for community-based literacy programming and activist research training across multiple properties of arts-based advocacy. The grant is being awarded for a proposed mural project that will involve a semester-long engagement between middle and high school youth in Parkview, UGA graduate students, as well as a teaching artist, who will be paid through the grant.
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