NEW YORK—The Sherman Fairchild Foundation has donated $4 million to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’s education wing, which will be rebranded as the Lincoln Center Education.
Known as Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) since 1975, the unit will now serve an additional 50 schools, reaching a total of 300. The mission of the center is to bring more arts and culture programs into public schools. The grant will also allow programs to be expanded to shelters for battered women and to special-needs students, according to Crain’s.
“The news... has brought us kudos and well-wishing from followers and leaders in arts-and-education,” wrote the LCI website on Oct. 9.
The LCI worked with Charter Schools to introduce museum visits, working with teaching artists, and going on field trips to see performances into the student’s curriculum. Pre-K schools were also able to work in partnership with the LCI to introduce arts into their curriculum.
Russell Granet, executive director at the LCI, said that the public school system scene was very different when the institute started, Crain’s reported.
“There used to be more parent involvement and arts education than there is now,” he said in the interview.
