By: Jeffrey D. Stauffer – Executive Director – Elville Center for the Creative Arts, Inc. “Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital […]

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By:  Jeffrey D. Stauffer – Executive Director, Elville Center for the Creative Arts, Inc. Wednesday was a great day for the Elville Center for the Creative Arts, and most importantly the school music programs and student musicians we support!  Executive Director Jeff Stauffer and Audio-Visual Specialist Lucille Elville began their travels early in the morning, […]

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  By: Stephen R. Elville – President and Founder of the Elville Center for the Creative Arts, Inc. Good news is rare these days, but not at the Elville Center for the Creative Arts. The Elville Center is boldly continuing its work in 2021 to provide much needed musical instruments, music lessons, art- and dance-related […]

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By:  Jeffrey Stauffer – Executive Director The Elville Center was privileged to deliver some donated refurbished instruments to our fine longtime partners at Wiley H. Bates Middle School in Annapolis in November and December!  These instruments will help support the student musician’s in the performing visual arts school’s band and orchestral programs. The first picture […]

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By:  Stephen R. Elville, J.D., LL.M. – President and Founder – Elville Center for the Creative Arts, Inc. It’s casual virtual Friday at Elville and Associates and here’s what’s on my mind.  This morning I noticed how green and beautiful my yard is after all the April showers.  And oh, during this sad and challenging […]

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William and Jasmine are middle school-age children who live in central Maryland.  They are brother and sister and each has a strong interest in music and the arts.  Their school had a music program in years past but now that program has been largely defunded and is barely functional – it has all but stopped. […]

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By: Jeffrey Stauffer – Executive Director     Since our last Elville Center for the Creative Arts update, the charity was blessed to celebrate its five-year anniversary! Founded in 2014 by Stephen Elville, the mission of the Elville Center is to improve the quality of life of children of all ages by providing them the […]

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By: Jeffrey D. Stauffer, Executive Director of the Elville Center for the Creative Arts In June 2018, the Elville Center for the Creative Arts celebrated its four-year anniversary. Founded in 2014 by Stephen Elville, the mission of The Elville Center is to improve the quality of life of children of all ages by providing them […]

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Authored by: Jeffrey D. Stauffer, Executive Director – jeff@elvilleassociates.com, 443-393-7696

Your support is needed!

The Elville Center for the Creative Arts is working to make a musical difference in the lives of children throughout Maryland by partnering with school music programs and other organizations throughout Maryland.  The Elville Center is helping music programs fill needs they have in their programs by providing donated refurbished musical instruments, much-needed supplies such as instruments cases, reeds and oils, fixing instruments in their inventories that need attention, and getting them the instruments they need to help their programs and students be successful.
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Authored by: Jeffrey D. Stauffer, Executive Director – jeff@elvilleassociates.com, 443-393-7696

A young girl is singing in a recording studio to music she composed herself. A seventh grader who didn’t have his own trumpet last semester is now practicing at home to hit that high G for the first time. A middle school jazz band is listening to a replay of its winter concert on a new stereo system with HD speakers in its classroom. And, a third grader is handed a clarinet he’s always wanted to play for the first time and squeaks out the first note to the delight of his teacher…
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