Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis Launches Major Study Measuring Impact of the Arts in Region

by Jay Scherder | Aug 30, 2022 | Impact Stories, In the News, Newsroom, Press Releases, RAC News

Photo: Randy Cohen, vice president of research, American for the Arts For the first time in many years, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis (RAC) hosted a convening of arts and culture leaders on August 30 to mark the launch of Americans for the Arts: Arts and...

Buzz Growing Around RAC-Funded Children’s Show

by Jay Scherder | Jul 12, 2022 | Impact Stories, In the News, Newsroom, Press Releases, RAC News

To help close the well-documented literacy gap and positively represent BIPOC (black, indigenous and people of color) children in our community, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis is teaming up with Nine PBS and Lion Forge Animation to create an exciting new...

Local Singer Honors Greatest Generation Through Song

by Jay Scherder | Jan 5, 2022 | Impact Stories, In the News, Newsroom

Her passion for singing started in a church. Elizabeth Lakamp was only a child, but she noticed something that changed her life. “I saw a baby looking at me over her mother’s shoulders,” she explained. “She had a look of wonderment and amazement as I was singing.”...

Pianos for People: Reverberations of a Lasting Legacy

by 108productions | Nov 25, 2019 | Impact Stories

Pianos for People honors the vision of late founder, Tom Townsend, by expanding its offerings as a provider of pianos and music education Playing an instrument can have life-changing effects. But the cost of an instrument, especially a piano, can be insurmountable....

Perennial, 2019 RAC General Operating Support Grant Recipient

by 108productions | Oct 21, 2019 | Impact Stories

Skip the Landfill: How ‘Trash’ is Being Used to Promote Creativity Perennial is teaching St. Louis how to reduce and reuse materials to create sustainability through discarded items, transforming them into valued and cherished resources. Since 2011, Perennial has been...

Career Prep Program Educates Area Students to Adapt to an Evolving Workforce

by 108productions | Aug 27, 2019 | Impact Stories

Building Futures: Design and Build Workshops, 2019 RAC Program Support Grant Recipient Through a series of workshops focused on design and build skills, Building Futures offers hands-on experiences to better prepare a new generation of workers In its eighth year of...