Governor's School for the Arts Foundation, Inc.

Wish List

Please contact the Foundation prior to making a purchase from the Wish List so that we may confirm sponsorship availability.

Priority School Needs

CAD program for Art Department - $200
Musical instruments: tambourines, castanets, suspended cymbals, cymbal stands, concert snare drum stands, chime hammers, Temple block set, wood blocks
Marimba - $6,000

Priority Foundation Needs

Subsidized printing costs for other publications and communications pieces (cost varies from $250-$4,000)

All in-kind donations are tax deductible.

Library Wish List

Please contact the Foundation prior to making a purchase from the Wish List so that we may confirm that it is still available for sponsorship. Thank you!!

Recent film releases:

$440 - "Forever": A poignant tour of the importance of art in the lives of visitors to the Pere-Lachaise cemetary in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists.

$398 - "Notes on Marie Menken": The story of the "mother of avante-garde film" who inspired artists such as Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol.

$390 - "Eileen Gray": The reknowned designer and architect who is still considered the very essence of the Modern style.

$390 - "Once Upon a Time . . . Rome, Open City": The making of "Rome, Open City", its significance in cinema and reflections on the great director, Roberto Rossellini.

$390 - "Great Expectations": A journey through the history of visionary architectural movements in the 20th century.

$390 - "The Face of Evil": A history of attempts to categorize the physiognomy of evil, including the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch, phrenology and eugenics.

$295 - "We Feed the World": illuminates the dysfunctionality of the industrialized world food system.

$250 - "John James Audubon Lawrence Hott": the life story of the pioneering American artist and naturalist.

Books $40 and under:

Windows of the Heart: The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Margaret Roberts ($35)
Last Call: Stories by Kevin L. Cook ($28)
Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer ($35)
The Alice Stories ($25)
To a Nightingale: Sonnets and Poems from Sappho to Borges ($20)
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer ($38)
Strange as This Weather Has Been ($16)
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur ($40)
Theresa Rebeck: Complete Full-Length Plays 1999 - 2007 ($20)
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story ($25)
Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet ($18)
Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild ($25)
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black And Other Stories ($21)
Civil War And The Rule Of Law: Security, Development, Human Rights ($25)
Universes ($37)
The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family ($28)
Beginner's Greek ($24)
The Berlin Blues (A Play) ($16)