March 6-12, 2000
Vol. 4, No. 27
New arts program answers needs of two communities
It's quite common these days for UCSC senior Jessica Fisher to take a walk downtown
and be hailed enthusiastically by a group of excited preteens. It's not that she
resembles Britney Spears or anything like that. Rather, Fisher teaches art in a local
junior high every week, which has given her a small fan club of her own. Fisher is
one of 58 UCSC students who reach more than 1,700 secondary school students each
week through ArtsBridge, a UC program created to increase arts enrichment in California's
secondary schools. (More)
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