Art Encounters Education Programs

Art Encounters Education Programs for Schools

What is the Art Encounters Education Program for schools?

The Art Encounters Education Program brings authors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and actors from around the corner and around the world into schools throughout Central and Northern New Hampshire. The idea began with the sense that schools in this area found it difficult to travel to cultural centers for the arts, so…we would bring arts and cultures to the schools.

The program started with just one school in 1973. Today our programs are offered to more than 40 schools reaching over 8500 students each year, and making connections to on-going classroom topics, themes, and goals. The more we make connections across curricula, the more we see the power of the Arts as a tool for motivating all kinds of students to participate and learn.

Art Encounters artists…

• SHARE their art form with students
• TALK about where their art form comes from including cultural & historical information
• INVOLVE students in the presentation of their art form

Art Encounters Education Programs for schools are designed to apply identified New Hampshire State Curriculum Frameworks, including critical thinking skills, writing skills, group discussion skills, reflective evaluation skills, and more.

The programs include classroom tools such as:

• Friendly Clues Study Guides- these guides can be copied for each student and include background on the artist, vocabulary words, activities, suggested readings, and more.
• Learning Kits- select programs have Learning Kits that are filled with activities, lesson plans, picture books, class journals, and more.

Recent Art Encounters Education Program for School Participants include: