| Founded twenty five years ago, the Lillian Black Arts Council’s mission is to promote the visual and performing arts curriculum in the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Oakland, initiate arts events, and provide grant and scholarship opportunities to foster and support the arts. The Council seeks to address the students’ need for self-expression, communication, discipline and critical thinking, and teachers’ need to integrate the arts as part of the regular curriculum. Each year the Lillian Black Children's Arts Council of the Department of Catholic Schools sponsors a celebration of the visual and performing arts in the Catholic schools of the Diocese of Oakland, grades K-12. All schools are invited and encouraged to participate by sending works of visual art and/or by musical, dramatic, or dance performances. |