OKCMOA’s Yellow Bus Brigade provides free admission and transportation reimbursement for schools K-12 across Oklahoma to experience the Museum’s first-class exhibitions.
Elgin High School’s Ruth Crittendon has been bringing her students to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art for 17 years. “Elgin has a pretty high percentage of low-income students that would never get to visit the Museum if it weren’t for the programs available to schools that pay for transportation and admission,” she said. “To expose [students] to different forms of art and watch their excitement when something grabs their attention – for an educator, that’s the payoff!”
Just north of Lawton, Elgin is a small town of roughly 2,500 people. “The diversity of the students makes our school unique,” said Crittendon. “We have kids who have never left Oklahoma and kids from military families who have been all over the world; it makes for an interesting student population. Some of these kids may eventually have the opportunity to see world-class art in New York, Europe or someplace else; but realistically, most of our students will not have that chance.”
“Seeing actual works of art that are not just pictures in a book is a remarkable gift,” she said.
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