Bridging to the Arts completed its fifth and final year of innovative, theme-based programming with summer programs for children and families in 17 sites around the state of New Mexico.

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2003 Exploring Thirst
'Exploring Thirst' is the environmental theme upon which all sites based their explorations in the summer of 2003.

2002 Important Stories of Corn
In this, the third year of Bridging to the Arts, 'Important Stories of Corn' became the theme upon which all sites based their explorations. Corn has so strongly impacted the ecology, history, and cultures of New Mexico that corn references and stories are abundant in all reaches of the state.

2001 Living Ditches
The second year's theme, 'Living Ditches' was focused upon intermittent waterways, ecological systems developed out of non-consistent waterflows. These were acequias, gulches, arroyos, ditches, and canales as found in the varying landscapes throughout New Mexico. Again the arts led the discovery.

2000 Water's Edge
Our first year's theme, 'Water's Edge,' became an exploration of the diversity and unique sources of water in varying terrains. Each site utilized the arts and local resources to investigate the watersheds, rivers, ponds, and lakes, as well as the abundant species of plants and animals dependent upon the ecology 'at their water's edge'.