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- I'm with MSCR's Art Cart, learning about their work
to make art more accessible
to communities across Dane County.
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The Art Cart has a long history of bringing art
to families across Dane County.
We met up with MSCR's Youth Arts and Enrichment Specialist,
Sarah Zahn, to discover more about this program on wheels.
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- Art Cart is a program that started in 1975
in Madison.
It's a partnership program
between Madison School and Community Recreation
and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
It is a mobile art studio that travels to different parks
throughout Madison and brings art to the community.
The idea behind the program originally
was to bring arts to art deserts in Madison.
- Angela: As the Art Cart travels around town,
it brings new projects for kids to get messy and create.
- So, as far as curriculum,
we do have traditional projects that we do every summer.
So, Friday mornings, we have beach stops,
and we do plaster sand-casting on the beach.
- Angela: MSCR, a program of the Madison School District
since the 1920s, runs mobile programs
like "Fit2Go" and the Art Cart
as a way to connect with local neighborhoods.
- Sarah Zahn: The mission of MSCR is all about accessibility, right?
Our mission as an organization is exactly that,
and there couldn't be anything, I think,
more accessible than bringing the programs to the people.
We're on wheels, and we can go right to the people.
Mobile programs are still relatively new to recreation.
They're more and more coming onto the scene,
but Art Cart has been around for almost 50 years now,
and to just have something
that's been around for so long and so well loved
and doing a great job at it
and being able to be a part of that
is really cool and really fulfilling.
So, it's just really fun to be a part of.
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- This is my finished masterpiece.
What a fun way to learn, experiment, and try new things.