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• 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.

• 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 AIA 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 or discussion questions.
• Integrated technology:  Lessons are built with technology integration in mind. Facilitators can teach lessons with traditional ‘pen and paper’ workshops or easily present with classroom projectors, smartboards or tablets.
• 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: AIA’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 and materials 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.

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. Mounted prints of the featured artwork, lesson-specific art materials for up to 30 students per class and custom training at your school are also available.

Three art material options are available for purchase: ARTboxes, Masterpiece Reproductions, and Paper Plus Boxes. ARTboxes contain program-specific paper, paints, and other art supplies needed to teach lessons. Masterpiece Reproductions are 18”x24” colored, mountable printouts of the works of art in each program level. 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.