{"id":7114,"date":"2021-05-31T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:55","slug":"artvan-a-community-based-non-profit-in-the-time-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2021\/05\/31\/artvan-a-community-based-non-profit-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"ArtVan: A Community-Based Non-Profit in the Time of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/05\/art-e1605145131530-300x112-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/05\/art-e1605145131530-300x112-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7115\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, many Bates students have loved their work with ArtVan, which offers therapeutic arts to encourage youth with limited arts access to fully express their imaginations, relationships, and experiences.&nbsp;<em>The Bates Student<\/em> (newspaper) had the opportunity recently to speak with Jamie Silvestri, the Executive Director and Art Therapist for ArtVan and Shannon Els, the director of development and communications for the organization, as they reflected on the challenges of running a nonprofit that is based on social connection during a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We share <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebatesstudent.com\/22012\/features\/artvan-a-community-based-non-profit-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">that story<\/a> in this week&#8217;s blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-900x159.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-900x159.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-400x71.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-768x136.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-1536x271.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM.png 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, many Bates students have loved their work with ArtVan,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10310,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}