• Exposing students to the world of art.
• Stimulating student’s creative thinking and confidence.
• Integrating visual arts into other courses such as language arts, math, science, and social studies.
• Appealing to many different learning styles.
• Empowering teachers and parents to teach art with confidence.
• Providing lesson specific art materials and ongoing support.
• Maintaining an affordable and comprehensive visual arts education for grades K-8.
• Sequential standards-based curriculum.
• Teacher and parent docent training.

Many schools have had Art in Action for 5+ years and 94% of teachers agreed students enjoyed our lessons!

Comprehensive: Includes curriculum, lesson-specific art materials for classes, teacher/parent volunteer training, and ongoing support via your school’s Art in Action coordinator.

Innovative: Through the Art in Action Teach website, teachers can access online tutorials that provide in-depth reviews of the lessons. Each tutorial includes videos, downloads, and other resources such as step-by-step teaching aids and discussion questions.

Culturally diverse: The lessons across grades K-8 represent cultural diversity and a history span of 17,000 years, from cave paintings to contemporary art and include a survey of art from cultures around the world including African, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian and Japanese among others.

Easy to teach: Each lesson gives straight-forward, easy-to-follow directions for guiding successful discussions and projects. No prior art background is needed.

Integrates easily with other curriculum: Art in Action’s curriculum is designed to integrate with other fields of study. Teach art alongside language arts, mathematics, science or social studies!

Run by school: We train your teachers and parent volunteers, and we support you to successfully implement and maintain the program.

Proven: Established in 1982, Art in Action has impacted more than 500,000 students at hundreds of schools around the country. Many schools have had Art in Action for 5 or more years and the program consistently receives a 99% satisfaction rating.

Standards driven: The curriculum aligns with California State and National Academic Standards for Visual Arts Content.

Affordable: Most schools receive a full year of art curricula for under $10/student.

The curriculum is aligned with National Standards for Visual Arts, most state Visual Arts Standards and strongly supports key elements of the Common Core.

Yes. Programs K through 8 may be purchased individually. Contact our sales team for more information on purchasing.

The base program includes a complete visual arts curriculum with 12 lessons for each grade from K through 8. The classroom subscription provides access to the online lesson tutorials for all teachers and volunteers who will be in the classroom. Webinar training and ongoing support is also included.

• ARTboxes contain program-specific paper, paints, and other art supplies needed to teach lessons
• Paper Plus Boxes contain program-specific paper supplies and other consumables, such as templates and visual aids

For more information about purchasing materials, please click here.

The program easily adapts to the school’s specific situation. You can teach as many of the 12 lessons in a program level as you wish. The lessons are designed, however, to be sequential which each lesson, and each grade level, building upon knowledge and competency from prior lessons and grade levels.

Lessons take anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes. Some schools teach a lesson in 60 minutes and others split a lesson into two 45-minute sessions. We also offer ideas for integrating the lessons into other subject areas.

Art in Action trains classroom teachers, art teachers and/or parent volunteers to teach the program. Training takes place in the fall at our Redwood City headquarters or via online resources available once a school has subscribed to the program.

A school’s Art in Action Coordinator is the liaison between the school and Art in Action and is typically a parent or teacher with a strong interest in the program. The Coordinator organizes the program at his or her school and often recruits a team of docent volunteers at school functions and in the school’s newsletter. The volunteers can attend in-person or webinar group trainings to learn how to effectively teach the Art in Action program.

Want more information? Contact our Customer Success Coordinator at elizabeth@artinaction.org or call 650-566-8339 ext. 202

During Art in Action training workshops, you will …

• Learn how to ask interpretive questions, how to help students understand each work of art, and how to transition from discussion to demonstration of the project.

• Learn various sketching, drawing and clay techniques.

• Learn about different art mediums and how to create mini-versions of several projects.

• Learn tips on encouraging students to express their observations during discussions.

• Learn about techniques to set up, clean up, and store materials.

• Learn methods to successfully integrate lessons into the general curriculum.

The annual subscription provides the school with the right to use the Art in Action program during the school year for the grade levels and classrooms specified at purchase or renewal. Furthermore, schools receive access to online resources, group training, workshops, ongoing school support, and the opportunity to purchase custom training or lesson-specific art supplies.

Want to sample our curriculum? Get a FREE lesson here or contact sales at sales@artinaction.org.

Schools and other organizations effectively utilize the lessons in K-8 after school and summer programs. Art in Action is proud to partner with afterschool providers such as Boys & Girls Club to bring our programs to students during extended learning time. Contact sales for more information.

The cost depends on the number of classrooms teaching the program and the optional purchase of art materials. View our products to find out more.

Programs are often funded through the school district, a school’s curriculum budget or through the school’s PTA/PTO.

Occasionally we receive a grant for a specific purpose, and we then seek schools that qualify. You can also apply to be a recipient of the Art in Action Scholarship. Many schools also write grants to help fund the program. for more information about securing grant funding for your school, please contact elizabeth@artinaction.org.

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