Dear Friends,
The ACG Education team is honored to be a part of one of the most accomplished, dynamic, community-focused music education programs in the world. We believe that thoughtful and passionate teaching leads to meaningful connections with our students, connections that break down barriers across our community. Because when a young person finds a little success, it opens the door for fascination and the guitar becomes a vehicle to express, inspire, validate, and grow.
We believe that thoughtful and passionate teaching leads to meaningful connections with our students, connections that break down barriers across our community.
ACG’s core education staff and associate teaching artists are among the most experienced and accomplished classroom guitar educators and professional guitarists in the nation. Together, we work with over 50 schools and 3,000 students in the central Texas area each day. We are writing cutting-edge classroom curriculum for school programs worldwide. We are helping to create guitar resources for students with blindness and visual impairments. We are sitting down with teen mothers and incarcerated mothers to help them write personal lullabies for their children. We are teaching young men in detention at Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center that they can do great things regardless of their past.
Your support and energy through the years have helped build this guitar family. I could not be more excited for the coming year, and for the continued privilege of working with such a vibrant, inspiring community.
Thank you for everything,
Travis Marcum
Director of Education & Outreach