Pollock Arts Initiative
Expanding Arts Education Opportunities
The Pollock Arts Initiative (formerly know as the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative) fund helps underwrite instrument and arts equipment rentals at the elementary and middle school levels to eliminate financial barriers to student participation in arts programming, supplements Achieve Foundation funding of teacher grant requests for arts-related projects, and may be used to help maintain the district’s inventory of musical instruments and other arts-related equipment and supplies.
Through the Initiative, scholarship awards for advanced training may be offered to Columbia High School students who demonstrate exceptional talent and are recommended by SOMSD music and arts department faculty. Awards are tailored to students’ specific needs for private instruction, classes and/or professional quality instruments/art equipment.
Donate to the PAICharlie & Vanessa Pollock established the Vanessa Pollock Music initiative (VPMI) with the Achieve Foundation in early 2015. In June of 2024, the scope of the program was broadened to include all visual and performing arts.
Pollock Arts Initiative by the Numbers
89
Scholarships awarded through fall of 2023
738
Instrument rentals funded since 2015