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Fall event combines art, family and fun

Wyoming — Creativity and artsy fun were on display during the recent Artists Creating Together fall kick-off event at the Wyoming Early Childhood Center. Students, teachers, parents, siblings and ACT representatives drew with chalk, played with a parachute and giant pipe cleaners, built towers and hula-hooped. 

Preschooler Clarke hops her way across the parking lot

ACT empowers individuals with disabilities to learn, grow, and celebrate through the arts. The organization partners with the ECC and is currently offering a 10-week art class based on visual arts and creative movement. The focus is health and wellness through art.

“It’s cool to see the students grow as artists, and also expand upon their social-emotional learning they are already doing at school,” said Jess Pennock, ACT program director.

At Wyoming ECC, ACT works with both students in the early childhood special education program and in the Great Start Readiness Program in different sessions throughout the year. 

Early Childhood Center Director Lillian Cummings-Pulliams said she sees students, some who are non-verbal, light up when involved with ACT: “We see them communicating a lot more.”

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Erin Albanese
Erin Albanese
Erin Albanese is managing editor and reporter, covering Kentwood, Lowell and Wyoming. She was one of the original SNN staff writers, helping launch the site in 2013, and enjoys fulfilling the mission of sharing the stories of public education. She has worked as a journalist in the Grand Rapids area since 2000. A graduate of Central Michigan University, she has written for The Grand Rapids Press, Advance Newspapers, On-the-Town Magazine and Group Tour Media. Read Erin's full bio

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