MaryAnn F. Kohl, process art and treasures of childhood

Thank you for your support for children's art -- and my Pepsi Grant.

To all the people who supported my efforts with the Pepsi Refresh grant for the month of December, 2010:

Thank you so much for your support voting for my proposal to bring art to children and teachers around the country. I know it was a lot to ask and I appreciate the time each of you took to help me. I've learned a lot about how this type of voting process works!

Looking forward, I feel renewed to schedule more workshops for the coming year and I am inspired to really really really reach children and impact their creative lives! After all, that's what my teaching and writing career is all about and always has been.

My proposal, Bring hands-on art to kids who have no art programs in their schools finished #142. There were 1500 entries. Therefore, because I did not finish #1 or #2, I did not win the grant. I was competing for one of two spots in the $250K level in all 6 categories. It was a long shot for sure, but I was willing to try. The competition was tough at that grant level; competing against the entire National Humane Society was not an easy task for one person with a sincere following. We simply did not have the numbers they had, but we certainly had the loyal voters!

Pepsi Refresh Results
For a full listing of winners and rankings, go to:http://www.refresheverything.com/finalists</span>

The final results will be verified January 23.

 

Though I'm disappointed, I learned much and have a renewed desire to bring art to children. And I am simply astounded by the support of so many for my cause. Thank you. I am humbled.

Last Day to Vote Dec. 31. LET's VOTE!

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http://www.refresheverything.com/greatartkids

VOTE EVERY DAY FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ART 

 

Three Ways to Vote for MaryAnn' Kohl's Pepsi Grant to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

 1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.c om/greatartkids 

2.) Text vote 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Facebook vote through the Pepsi Voting App. 

You can vote all three ways each day, or choose one! 

Vote as many times as you can until Dec. 31. Winners announced Jan. 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 day voting push underway HELP MARYANN WIN!

VOTE EVERY DAY FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ART 

 

Three Ways to Vote for MaryAnn' Kohl's Pepsi Grant to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

 1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.c om/greatartkids 

2.) Text vote 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Facebook vote through the Pepsi Voting App. 

You can vote all three ways each day, or choose one! 

Vote as many times as you can until Dec. 31. Winners announced Jan. 1.

 

 

 

 

Art for Kids: Vote for MaryAnn's Pepsi Grant (through Dec. 31)

VOTE EVERY DAY FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ART 

 

Three Ways to Vote for MaryAnn' Kohl's Pepsi Grant to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

 1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.c om/greatartkids 

2.) Text vote 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Facebook vote through the Pepsi Voting App. 

You can vote all three ways each day, or choose one! 

Vote as many times as you can until Dec. 31. Winners announced Jan. 1.

 

 

 

Vote through Dec. 31 so MaryAnn can win a Pepsi grant. Thank you!!!

VOTE EVERY DAY FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ART 

 

Three Ways to Vote for MaryAnn' Kohl's Pepsi Grant to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

 1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.c om/greatartkids 

2.) Text vote 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Facebook vote through the Pepsi Voting App. 

You can vote all three ways each day, or choose one! 

Vote as many times as you can until Dec. 31. Winners announced Jan. 1.

 

 

Gryphon House, Inc. Supports MaryAnn's Pepsi Refresh Grant

Three Ways to Vote for MaryAnn' Kohl's Pepsi
Grant to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.com/greatartkids 

2.) Text vote 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Facebook vote through the Pepsi Voting App. 

You can vote all three ways each day, or choose one! 

Vote as many times as you can until Dec. 31. Winners announced Jan. 1.

VOTE EVERY DAY FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE ART 

 

FOUR Ways to Vote for MaryAnn' Kohl's Pepsi Grant

to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.c om/greatartkids 

2.) Text vote 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Facebook vote through the Pepsi Voting App. 

4.) Or click on the VOTE BUTTON below.

You can vote all three ways each day, or choose one! 

Vote as many times as you can until Dec. 31. Winners announced Jan. 1.

 

Vote Today for MaryAnn to Win a Grant for Art in Schools All Over the USA!

Discount School Supply's Blog Post and Support for MaryAnn's Pepsi grant

Discount School Supply Supports MaryAnn Kohl's Pepsi Refresh Project

Hi. I’m Judy McGuinn, President of Discount School Supply. I’d like to share with you a project to help restore art instruction and experience to 150,000 children whose schools no longer have art programs.

MaryAnn Kohl, author of children’s books and popular keynote speaker, is a long-time friend of Discount School Supply – and a long-time fan of Discount School Supply Colorations® art materials. Now she is hoping to win a $250,000 grant in the Pepsi Refresh Projectbeing sponsored by Pepsi Cola – and she needs our votes! You can vote every day in December – and you can even text an extra vote each day!

“Art by Great Masters, Art for Great Kids” is the name of MaryAnn’s great idea. She hopes to reach out to 6,000 teachers and 150,000 children in schools that have lost their art programs to budget cuts. MaryAnn says, “The idea of being able to reach out to all those teachers and students is just awesome. I have been so concerned to see how many schools have had to give up art programs because of budget constraints. When I learned about the Pepsi Refresh Project, I though this might be my chance to help those schools restore a great art experience to their classrooms. And since I have loved working withDiscount School Supply and its wonderful customers over the last 20 years, I knew you’d share my excitement for this project.”

Please visit the Pepsi Refresh Project or vote today for MaryAnn Kohl’s idea. Here’s what her grant will do:

• Reach 6000 teachers who have no art programs in their schools.
• Allow teachers to experience art hands-on to understand how to teach art easily
• Share slides of great masters' art and examples of great art by kids
• Teachers will come away with free art books full of art ideas from the workshop

MaryAnn has authored two children’s books on this subject, Discovering Great Artists and Great American Artists for Kids, along with many other titles. She is a popular speaker at workshops, seminars and conferences around the world. Many of you probably know her already. If you can take a minute today to vote for MaryAnn’s project, we’re sure she would be so grateful for your help. Thank you from all of us at Discount School Supply.

 

Visit Discount School Supply and enjoy browsing their amazing catalog of materials, supplies, furniture, and so much more.

Kids Without the Arts?

Kids without the arts... where will America's next entrepreneurs and inventors come from if they don't have a chance to imagine, think, test ideas, create, explore, discover? This grant is about more important than just sprinkling glitter on glue (which of course is great fun!) - it's about the future.

Thank you for your support of the arts for children by voting for this grant. I am passionate about helping teachers get art back into their classrooms.

Three Ways to Vote to Bring Art to Teachers and Children

 1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.com/greatartkids (You have to sign up first with the program to be a verfied voter.) 

2.) Text your vote - no sign up needed. Text these numbers: 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Go to Facebook and vote through the Pepsi Voting App. (easy if you're already a Facebook member)

 

VOTE HERE 

 

Discount School Supply endorsed my Pepsi Refresh Grant

Day 8 - 23 days to vote!

 

(Click on the words, Discount School Supply below.)
Discount School Supply endorsed my Pepsi Refresh grant by sending out an announcement to 140K customers to "Please Vote". Watch my numbers leap! I buy all my art supplies from DSS. They are truly good people with great prices and great products. Thank you DSS!!

Here are the 3 ways you can vote, and you can do them all three in one day - Every Day: 

1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.com/greatartkids
(You have to sign up first with the program to be a verfied voter.) 

2.) Text your vote - no sign up needed. Text these numbers: 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774 

3.) Vote the easy way through the Facebook Pepsi Voting App. Find it through the search box at the top of your profile page.

 

If each person asked just 3 friends to vote !!every day!! in the 3 ways listed above, I could actually win. It's that close!

 

MaryAnn wants to bring free art workshops to your town! Please VOTE!

Day 7 - 24 days to go!

MaryAnn wants to bring free art workshops to your town!  Let her know where you live and she'll try to schedule your town in her workshop travels... IF SHE WINS THE PEPSI GRANT!

* Did you know that you can vote 3x a day? Add 75 votes per person by Dec. 31.

 

 

 

Here's how:

1.) Direct vote at: http://www.refresheverything.com/greatartkids
(You have to sign up first with the program to be a verfied voter.)

2.) Text your vote - no sign up needed.
Text these numbers: 104840 To Pepsi's phone: 73774

3.) Go to Facebook and vote through the Pepsi Voting App.
This is pretty easy.