Inspiring creative and critical thinking in rural students through arts-based projects.
Through the Placeworks arts outreach program, teaching artists travel to rural schools to create customized cross-curricular projects linking art to core studies like history and science. Rural students also take field trips to visit sites related to their projects like the Springfield Art Museum or the Watershed Center. Placeworks is made possible through the CFO’s partnership with the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Charitable Foundation, managed by the Commerce Trust Co.