Our Partners

Writers in the Schools

Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program places professional local writers in public elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, empowering young people to discover and develop their authentic writing and performance voices. Since 1994, the program has served over 100,000 students throughout the Puget Sound region. Through WITS, students become authors of their own lives.

ArtsCorps

Arts Corps partners with schools and community organizations to provide equitable access to creative arts education for young people across King County.

Arts Corps’ mission is to revolutionize arts education by igniting the creative power of young people through culturally engaging learning experiences.

We influence schools and youth-serving systems by providing equitable access to arts-based opportunities to fuel youth voice and leadership.

All of Arts Corps’ programs are offered at no-cost to youth to ensure maximum access.

Amy L. Piñon

Amy L. Piñon is an audio engineer, vocalist, videographer, photographer, and multimedia teaching artist. She has produced and taught an array of audio and video education programs in Seattle, is the Board President at The Vera Project, and a founder of Womxn’s Creative Industries Meet Up – an all-ages community that inspires and connects current and aspiring media makers. In addition to being a teaching artist with Arts Corps, she is also the Media & Communications Manager – with the major responsibility of listening to and documenting the stories of young people throughout Arts Corps’ programs

RAmon isao

Ramon Isao is a writer, educator, and actor who loved his time working with the Chief Sealth crew! He helped student filmmakers with research and script-writing, and how to take a bunch of things you want to say and make a story out of them. He has a big haircut, and a car. He's won some awards and he one won a TV at a county fair. His stories and movies are all over. He's really bad at writing bios about himself.

Shann Thomas

Shann is a freelance filmmaker, photographer and teaching artist. Shann's favorite thing about working with students @ Cheif Sealth was the student's bravery in doing something new and creative; and their unbelievable patience in working with lackluster technology. Shann is teaching filmmaking at Northwest Film Forum this Summer, and will also be producing a photo installation at the Vera Project on Transgender History in the Northwest.

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