Becky Patterson Design

Exciting things happening for students in Niagara County! 🎨

Big news for Western New York!

✨🎨 We can finally share! We are now a proud partner of the With Youth, For Youth grant 🎨✨ This supports our free programming over the 2026-2027 academic year. First, Lockport Chalk Walk gets our students involved. Second, the Royhart After School Art Club and the Newfane After School Art Club will have 24 sessions each! Third, our students will lead and install 5 community murals in Western New York this year. Let's gooooooooo! 📢

We are one of 40 organizations to receive a new grant because youth believe we are responsive to young people’s needs.
The WYFY Youth Advisory Board just directed more than $2 million in With Youth For Youth (WYFY) grants to 40 out-of-school time and youth sports programs across the region.

The 24-member Youth Advisory Board of young people ages 13–17 designed the process, reviewed applications, and selected the recipients.

Real decisions. Real dollars. Led by young people.
See who got funded: https://www.cfgb.org/news/

Can we talk about how sometimes the best tool for the job is the cheap old worn-out, rough paint brush? Don’t get me wrong. I love a clean, fresh, soft-bristle brush that holds a ton of paint for those crisp edges and that perfect coverage. But every now and then, the cheap-o brush with the bristles bending every which way and occasionally falling out… that one is gold.