Support The School in 2025 by becoming a “Rural Scholar” (and get a free print)
Make a gift of $200 or more and we’ll send you this limited edition print.
Our Rural Scholar campaign has been the center of our economic support since we first launched it in 2023. In 2024 we were able to install new custom bookshelves in the library, make repairs to our roof, and install a new gallery hanging system in the hallway and twenty acoustical panels in the gymnasium.
Your gift in 2025 will go directly towards HVAC installation in our building. This has been a major goal since 2020. As of today, we have only classroom with heating and cooling. However, we are now very close to having the support we need to install electric HVAC in the remaining thee classrooms, an exterior wood-burning furnace in the gymnasium, and new storm windows to maintain the building’s envelope. These long-awaited improvements will allow us to expand our programming into the more inclement parts of the year and preserve our building for the future.
“Updraft” is a limited edition linocut print by Matthew Regier, created and produced in the printmaking studio right here at The School. It is printed on a 9.5” x 7.5” sheet of Rives BFK paper. Please allow 1-2 months for delivery. For tax-deductible purposes, value the print at $75. If you would prefer not to have a print, please let us know.
If you don’t have $200 to give, consider a smaller gift—everything helps us in our mission to cultivate a place-based rural culture here in Matfield Green.
2024 RURAL SCHOLARS
Ed Agran, Wayne and Barbara Akers, Gena Dellett, Jane Koger, Robert Jensen, Third Coast Activist Resource Center, Flint Hills Books, Charlotte Street Foundation, Tony Crawford, Mary and Taylor McFall, Grant Snider, Jane Liggett, Tia and Matthew Regier, Julia and Bill McBride, Mary Harwood, Denise Dowd and Jill Burton, Don and Michelle Wolfe, Lisa Grossman, Edwin and Amy Cheek, Mary Hardiman, Derek and Katherine Hamm, Ian Huebert, Kathy Miller, Frank Martin, Ron and Cora Regier, Lynette Steger, David Wayne Reed, Jamie Beel, Lizzie Ackerly, Sally Mahe, Leila Monroe, Nathan Esau, Diana and Kelly Werts, Patrick Landazuri, Lori Spoozak and Sean Nash, Ksenya Gurshtein, and Ross Jory.