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About

Founded in 1971, DeltaARTS provides creative writing workshops, art exhibits, art camps, and theater experiences for children and youth in the Arkansas Delta and surrounding communities. We provide our programs at our Arts Education Center in West Memphis and at schools and afterschool programs throughout the region.


One program DeltaART provides is nationally recognized Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. As the Mid-South affiliate for Wolf trap, Delta Wolf Trap is dedicated to enhancing early childhood education through innovative arts-integrated programs and comprehensive professional development. Our purpose is to provide accessible and enriching experiences that foster family engagement and create high-quality classroom environments aligned with Better Beginnings Standards. Through flexible training options and individualized coaching, we empower educators to strengthen teacher-child interactions, ensuring that every child has the opportunity to thrive in a supportive and creative learning environment.


At DeltaARTS, we also know that all children need and deserve year-round access to the arts to help them develop new creative skills, gain confidence, succeed academically, and build the social-emotional tools they need to prosper in life. We offer activities outside the school calendar to support and enrich the work of our local school district. 

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Mission Statement

DeltaARTS provides imaginative arts education programs for the Arkansas Delta and surrounding communities.

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Strategic Vision

DeltaARTS is currently updating our Strategic Plan and seek community participation through interviews, surveys, and comments. To tell us what you like, wish, or wonder about DeltaARTS please email office@deltaarts.org so we can include your perspective in our planning. 

Board Members

President - Michael Lejman, PhD

Vice President- Tywanna Smith, DLS
Treasurer - Kelly Pouncey
Secretary - Chrissy Carlson
Ashley Postell

Kennidi Ridgell
Patty Clark
Marty Milligan
Mary Marconi

Delta Wolf Trap

Institute for Early Learning through the Arts

Additional services offered through Delta Wolf Trap include Family Engagement Workshops available to early childhood centers, libraries, children's museums, and organizations focused on supporting parents with young children. These interactive family workshops provides parents and caregivers opportunities to engage in a live arts experience with their children and learn to play with their children in educational ways that support kindergarten readiness.

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Professional Development Workshops may be available for early childhood centers with aim to provide annual training on research-based practices of instruction. In-person and virtual workshops provide early educators with hands-on teaching strategies and active learning techniques that support literacy and language development, STEM learning, problem-solving, social-emotional development, classroom management, and more.​

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A Case for Arts in Early Childhood

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2014). Teachers Know Best: Teachers’ Views on Professional Development.

Child, H. U. (2017). Brain Architecture.

Child, H. U. (2014). Executive Function & Self-Regulation.

Children, N. A. (n.d.). The 10 NAEYC Program Standards.

Clay, J., Campbell, V., & Madsen, C. (2015). CUNY Creative Arts Team Astor Early Learning Program Evaluation Findings.

Green, M., M.F.A., & Sawilowsky, S., Ph.D. (2015). Social Innovation Fund Grant Final Report Year 3.

Klayman, D., Ph.D. (2006). Final Evaluation Report of Fairfax Pages Professional Development Project: An Effective Strategy for Improving School Readiness.

ReadyNation. (2013). The Vital Link: Early Childhood Investment is the First Step to High School Graduation.

Song, M., Ludwig M., and Marklein M.B., (2016). Arts Integration: A Promising Approach to Improving Early Learning, American Institutes for Research.

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Delta Wolf Trap

301 S Rhodes St, West Memphis, AR 72301, USA

(870) 705-5075

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