Arts In Education

Bringing the Arts to Your Child's School

Division Street's Arts In Education program (funded by both the district and our PTA) brings music, arts, visual arts, creative writing, theater, dance, and other types of art to your child’s school through performances, workshops, and residencies.  Arts In Education programs supplement the core curriculum. We are fortunate to be a part of a school and a school district that recognizes the importance of arts in education to motivate and enrich students. 

For more information contact the program chair at artsined@divisionstreetschoolpta.com 

Current Programs

All grades: We welcome Skidmore College’s Tang Museum for a week-long art residency! They will work with all students during their art period to create cyanotypes, which is a simple, camera-less photographic printing process that produces a distinctive Prussian blue image using light-sensitive iron salts and exposure to sunlight or UV light.

Grades 3-5: On March 24th, Opera Saratoga will come to our school to perform the children’s opera “Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in el Mundo”. “It is an interactive children’s opera about Mariana, a young girl living in Mexico City in the late 1940s. Mariana’s family encourages her to have her portrait painted by the renowned artist, Frida Kahlo. Mariana is initially frightened, but is emboldened and charmed by Kahlo, the animals in her household including a monkey, a parrot and a dog, and a visit by the exuberant artist Diego Rivera. As Mariana sits for her portrait, she learns all about Frida’s life, and begins to understand the meaning of bravery.”

Grade 2: April 7th - ADKX Bee’s & Pollination

5th Grade: Mission to Mars 4H Program; 3 part series: 3/7, 3/12, 3/17: “Program series connects classrooms to NASA. The series builds knowledge over 3, 1 hour programs, to give children a good picture of space exploration, technology, engineering and good old “Perseverance”!”

Virtual Author Visits: Author visits are offered by our local Northshire Bookstore. Families will have the opportunity to place an order for the book after the visit and have it delivered to their student at school.

Book orders due Thursday, March 20th for Vanya and the Wild Hunt. (4th and 5th graders). You can send in the paper flyer with a check or place an order online.

NEW: Upcoming: Thursday, April 2nd 1st and 2nd graders will meet with illustrator & author Marissa Valdez to learn about her new picture book Hedgehogs Don’t Wear Underwear. Book order details will follow.