The website has been quiet for a while, but we are back online and will now keep this page up to date with current events and announcements about the Friends of the Museum School.

We have had some changes to the board make up, most significant is the fact that Lizbeth Persons-Price is our new President (cue: hail to the chief)!

To catch up on all that the foundation has been up to this year, take a look at the minutes from our most recent monthly meetings:

Minutes from 2/13/09 meeting

Minutes from 3/13/09 meeting

Please join us for any of the upcoming Friends of the Museum School (FOMS) meetings, regularly held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 9:00 at the school.

Upcoming dates are Friday May 8, Friday June 12 and Friday July 10.

The Friends of the Museum School Foundation will be meeting today at the school at 11am. For an agenda of today’s meeting, click here. In addition, meeting minutes for our last meeting, can be found here.

In today’s meeting we will focus on upcoming events and ideas for fundraising. Future meetings should all be on Friday mornings, the second week of every month. Everyone is welcome to come and see what the Friends of the Museum School is all about.

Due to inclement weather, the Museum School 6th-grade Car Wash scheduled for today has been canceled. Check back here or at the school for updates on the car wash and other events.

Mark your calendar now and plan to attend

The Museum School

Holiday Home Tour and Arts Fair

Featurning 4 fabulous sites in Bankers Hill and Little Italy

Sat. Dec. 6, 2008

Arts Fair at 211 Maple Street:  9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Holiday Home Tour: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

(Tour begins at 211 Maple Street, 92103)

By special arrangement, includes a talk-back with

Lloyd Russell, Architect of Little Italy’s “R3 Triangle Building”

Lloyd Russell was awarded the Young Architect of the Year Award by the San Diego Chapter of the AIA and his “R3 Triangle Building” was awarded an Honor Award in the 2006 AIA Design Awards.

For ticket information, email Lizbeth Persons Price at lizbeth_price@yahoo.com

All proceeds from the Home Tour and a portion of the proceeds from the Arts Fair will go to support The Museum School, a free public, charter school in Bankers Hill committed to integrating the arts with experiential, project based learning.

Here’s a fun competition for the kids only that will be going on at the school. Each class will get a jar to fill with pennies, and whoever has the most at the end wins a pizza party for their class. Of course, nothing is that simple. Anything monetary in the jars that isn’t a penny is subtracted from the penny total (so a quarter reduces the total by 25 cents, for instance).

There will only be two divisions, but the kids will get to add their pennies to the race in a good-natured competition that allows the kids themselves to support their school.