We believe every child deserves art and museum education from a young age.

Just $10 helps toward one student's cARTie art museum experience. When you donate to cARTie, you have a direct impact on a student's lifetime ahead thinking critically, creatively, collaboratively, and confidently.

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Over the past four years, we have grown our school and community partnerships by 400% and now serve more than 7,000 PreK-2 students (not to mention 1,000s of community members, 100s of student-artists, and 100s of educators) who would not otherwise have access to art museum enrichment.

Students gather around the cARTie art museum bus with an educator.

With your help, we bring our art museum bus to young students 3X each so that they become comfortable and confident exercising their art museum habits of mind. We pull from promising practices across early childhood and art museum education, and train educators to teach students how to think critically, creatively, collaboratively, and confidently through the arts.

Students practice ASL outside the cARTie art museum bus with an educator.

We build a pipeline for students through the arts by highlighting emerging Connecticut student-artists in our annual juried student art exhibitions, and providing intensive summer internships and student leadership opportunities.

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We involve students and families in our annual jurying and curation work, thereby demystifying the art museum field. We are champions of student voice and children’s rights in everything we do.

A student helps jury a cARTie art museum bus exhibition.

We count on your support to bring the myriad benefits of art museum enrichment to the 7,000 PreK-2 students, 1,000s of community members, 100s of student-artists, and 100s of educators we serve.

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Help us kickoff our biggest season of giving and make a difference today!

Give the gift of cARTie. Donations start at $10.

Help us bring 1,500 students aboard the cARTie art museum bus!

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