Student Arts Magazine Garners Grant from The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
 Theatre, music, art, film, fashion—the arts are alive at Albright, and a new
student-produced arts magazine aims to prove it. Michael Weekley ’09 and the
staff of 15 students “felt the need for something a little hip,” so they are writing,
designing and producing a 20-page, color publication. “There is plenty of stuff
to write about,” Weekley said.
The first two issues of A.M. Albright: Waking up the Arts, were published
in spring and fall 2008 with funding from the Student Government Association.
Their vision of a third issue meant they needed to find money for printing. So
Weekley, the managing editor, decided to write a grant.
Using skills he learned in a local grant writing workshop, and with help from
Darlene Roth, director of corporate and foundation relations, Weekley’s request
resulted in a $1,672 grant to cover the printing of a spring 2009 issue.
The project was supported by the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding
partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA).
State government funding for the arts depends on an annual
appropriation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a
federal agency. PPA is administered in Berks County by the
Berks Arts Council.
Magazine staffers are selling coffee mugs to raise the
remainder of the $1,950 cost of printing the upcoming
issue, but Weekley is confident they can raise the remainder—
and of the future of A.M. Albright.
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