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Summer Festival of the Arts is unlike any other program on Mount Desert Island!
“I like how I get to experiment with my creative juices and help them grow big and strong.”
5th Grade Young Artist
Why give?
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25% of our students receive tuition assistance through our scholarship program. To date, over 700 families have benefited.
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SFOA has now welcomed over 7,500 students.
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48% of students attend SFOA for at least two summers and many children attend each and every year from third grade until high school.
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71% of families send more than one child to SFOA.
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For several years now, there have been many individuals return to be teaching artists who were once SFOA participants!
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Each summer, we bring together an average of 40 teaching artists, 20 assistants, and over 100 children to create imaginative artistic experiences that reach far beyond the walls of our campus.