Families, schools, libraries, and community organizations are encouraged to use Art IS Education projects to explore and celebrate the 2013 theme “Every Child is Creative: Together We Create Our World.”

Two sample project plans are available:  

The Mandala Globe Project created by the Pacific Boychoir Academy is an arts lesson plan integrated music and visual arts. This project creates an opportunity for students to experience music from around the globe and create drawings inspired by the music.  Brought together by continent, the drawings create a representation of the world as experienced through music.

The Mandala Quilt Project created by the Alameda County Arts Commission is a visual arts project that uses basic traditional kirigami paper techniques for cutting and folding paper to create colorful quilt squares. Each quilt square expresses an individual positive trait we each bring to our lives and our community. Assembled together as a quilt, the squares create a collective image of our multi-faceted community. 

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What makes an Art IS Education event?

Events include presentations of visual and performing arts created by K-12 students with a public gathering at a school or community site. These events create a vehicle for students to share with their community what they are learning in and through the visual and performing arts.

Visit the Creative Impact calendar to post your events and to find out what is happening around the county!

Art IS Education is an annual, month-long showcase demonstrating the power of youth learning in and through the arts.

Each March, during National Arts Education Month, schools, school districts and community arts organizations participate in Art IS Education, where students have opportunities to share the process through which they have learned new skills, solved problems, taken risks, and persisted through obstacles, in order to bring form to their ideas expressed in works of art.