The New Life Learning Center Learning Center (A division of the Colquitt/Miller Arts Council) currently serves approximately 140 students from the Miller County School System in grades Pre-K through 7th Grade. We employ a staff of 50 teachers, college students, paraprofessionals, and high school students (who serve as tutors). We help them daily complete and check their homework, teach academic enrichment skills, teach all of the art areas, and also make sure they are safe in the After-School Hours. We have an all day, Monday-Friday Summer and School Holidays program with a focus of academic achievement through art.

The MCES and MCMS have an extended day program that runs 3 hours per week. The sole function of this program is Academic Skills.

Colquitt/Miller Arts Council (CMAC) received a 21st century community learning center grant through the No Child Left Behind legislation. This provides funding for our Explorer?s Tutorial Program, after-school art classes, Children?s Summer Art Workshops (C-SAW), family field trips, character education classes, and Swamp Gravy Kids. Colquitt?s New Life Learning Center was created to be a public facility where local residents and visitors could receive training in the traditional crafts of Georgia such as quilting, pottery, sewing, and photography.

The hopes of the New Life Learning Center are to increase cultural art awareness and unity within our community. Grant and donation funding of the project support our goal of educating our rural community and preserving our past cultures.