Arts Education Important

For 17 years, Ocean Bank's support of The Education Fund's Ocean Bank Center of Educational Materials has leveraged more than .8 million in donated art and school supplies, benefiting more than 525, 000 students. Ocean Bank's commitment includes a belief that we must foster the creativity and imagination of our children and that the arts play a vital role in that development.

To ensure support for visual arts in the schools, Ocean Bank sponsors both this exhibition and The Education Fund's Art of Found Objects Charity Auction, which raises thousands of dollars for visual arts programs in our public schools.

In a community as diverse as ours, the arts serve as an essential bridge across language and cultural differences. They become the shared link, the glue that shapes our understanding of how we see ourselves and each other. In giving children the materials and the freedom to create through The Education Fund's Art of Found Objects Exhibition and Charity Art Auction, we celebrate our children, their families, the schools they attend, and our community.