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The Touchstone Center
The Touchstone Center for Children, a nonprofit educational organization founded in New York City in 1969 by its present director, Richard Lewis, was established in the belief that all persons have natural creative, imaginative and artistic capacities, which when encouraged and allowed to develop, find unique expression in each individual.
Through its Arts and Education Projects, the Center creates interdisciplinary arts programs in classrooms which explore the role of the imagination and poetic thought as pivotal to all learning.
In addition the Center conducts Workshops and Seminars for adults on the role of the imagination within the learning process and how, at all levels of education, the use of elemental themes and images based on natural phenomena can strengthen and awaken our human relationship to the natural world.
The Center's Publications Program has been concerned with documenting and reflecting upon the imaginative efforts of children and adults who have participated in the Center's activities, as well as creating and republishing books of poetry and myth from a wide spectrum of cultures.
The Archival Project, as part of the Center's publishing program, is an extensive collection of children's writings and artwork – as well as audio, video tapes, photographs and documents related to the history, philosophy, and work of the Center. The Archival Project also maintains an Overview of Activities of The Touchstone Center from 1969-2007, and Sources of Funding and Support.
Upcoming Activities include forthcoming programs in the Center's Arts and Education Projects, Workshops and Seminars, and recent and future Publications.
Biographical information about the Center's staff is included in Staff of the Center.
The Touchstone Center for Children
141 East 88th Street
New York, New York 10128
(212) 831-7717
(212) 427-9644 (Fax)
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