During the 2006-07 Fellows' residency, the Fine Arts Work Center launched an innovative community outreach program called "Kids' Art Partners in Education" ("KAPE"). KAPE's purpose is to provide free art and writing workshops to students in Cape Cod public schools.

The Work Center developed KAPE to respond to the need for quality after-school enrichment programming. KAPE engages FAWC's Fellows in the community in a meaningful way, enhancing their residency experience while providing Cape Cod school children with a stimulating artistic experience.

In its first two years KAPE reached 600 elementary and secondary public school students on the Lower Cape. It has become the Work Center's most important community outreach program, as well as a vital component of the core Fellowship program.

KAPE has had some wonderful and inspiring results that are a testament to the quality of the workshops and their importance to the participants. One of our visual arts Fellows, a native of China, taught paper-cutting to a class of fourth graders who staged a puppet show using folk stories and paper-cut-outs they created. One of our visual arts Fellows collaborated with a poetry Fellow to teach bookmaking and poetry to a class of sixth graders who wrote numerous poems about a single object and compiled them in books they made themselves. Under the guidance of one of our fiction writing Fellows, high school students designed, edited and printed a literary journal of their work and held then publicized a reading at the Work Center's Stanley Kunitz Common Room. The reading was attended by parents, teachers, fellow students, FAWC Fellows and staff.

KAPE has been generously supported by a number of local funders including the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Cape Cod Foundation, TD Banknorth, BJ's Charitable Foundation and Cape Youth Force, a studentdriven philanthropic fund of the Cape Cod Foundation. Cape Youth Force is a committee of high school students from across Cape Cod interested in making the community a better place by supporting projects that positively affect youth on the Cape and Islands. This year it not only renewed but increased its funding for the KAPE project, a sure sign that KAPE is benefiting the community the way we envisioned it would.