The Foundation

A Mission of Art Appreciation and Education

The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival Foundation remains focused on supporting community appreciation of the arts, providing programs that encourage creativity in children and funding college scholarships.

The foundation supports the Children’s Workshop, the Leon Theodore Schools Exhibit, the Emerging Artists Program, the Image Review Workshop, and Performing Arts at the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival.

It also funds the Jean Alice Oliphant Scholarship at Rollins College in Winter Park and the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival Scholarship at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Founded in 2008, the foundation’s mission has been to enhance art appreciation, art education and community spirit. Typically, more than 1,000 children take the opportunity to display their creativity though easel painting, and museum workshops report more than 500 children per day take part in the hands-on art activities they provide.

Each year, more than 4,500 Orange County students experience the thrill of having their artwork displayed and judged at the Leon Theodore Schools Exhibit. Added creativity was required during the 2021 festival due to COVID-19, which required that the museum projects and the schools exhibit be conducted virtually.

The foundation received funding in 2021 from donations by the Joe and Sarah Galloway Foundation, the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, the Rotary Club of Winter Park, Pocket Program and the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival. The foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt entity. If you’d like to donate or find out more, contact the foundation at P.O. Box 597, Winter Park, FL, 32790, email wpsaf@wpsaf.org or call 407-644-7207. n

The Image Review Workshop is now in its eighth year of helping artists apply.

The Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival

appreciates the support and funding provided by the Joe and Sarah Galloway Foundation; it makes so many of the festival’s activities that are focused on children a reality.

Programs like the museum workshops, easel painting, school exhibits, performing arts and emerging artists all give children and youth an opportunity to be creatively inspired at the festival.