Return of the Artists: An All-Star Day for Turnaround Arts

“I’m in!” DJ IZ Avila told the 4th and 5th graders at Moulton Elementary School first thing Wednesday morning, and they were extremely glad to hear it.

How many schools can claim a five-time Grammy winner who performed at a presidential inauguration and has sold 50 million records as a member of their family? Besides Moulton, only a handful across the country, according to Avila, who told the Moulton students that he considers them “my kids” and himself “your human mascot.”

Meanwhile, at Madison Elementary School, the school was breaking in its brand new gymnasium/event space with the help of two Silk Road enemblists – violinist Shaw Pong Liu and choreographer/dancer Preeti Vasudevan….

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