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Making Learning Visible

A world of authentic art experiences.

The Arts Education Projects you see here reflect how the arts come to life through schools, artists, and community organizations. These projects support a variety of teaching and learning opportunities for preschool through high school students. Framed by the Core Arts Standards, the projects reach diverse students, encourage community partnerships, and nurture student development through creativity.
Year of the Brass

Year of the Brass is a project that connects brass players in grades 5-12 with professional musicians.

Music Conservatory of Sandpoint

Taught by highly trained music instructors, the summer camp provides classes to families where music education has otherwise diminished.

Boise Philharmonic: Explore Music!

The Explore Music! program provides an array of programs for students from across the Treasure Valley supporting and introducing classical music.

WINDOWS Arts Education

WINDOWS programs seek to give students a better understanding of cultures through the arts.

Opera Idaho’s The Enchanted Forest

Anna Young’s opera The Enchanted Forest was presented to elementary and middle schools featuring 51 performances and reaching nearly 20,000 students.

Creative Access Artists

Artist in Residence program provides arts education to students with special needs across Idaho in community centers and public schools.

High Mountain Strings

The (HMS) program expands performing arts opportunities in McCall’s rural area, providing a youth orchestra and private lessons.

Arts on Tour

In partnership with the Magic Valley Arts Council and school districts, Arts on Tour brings a number of performances to local students.

Idaho Falls Symphony Outreach

Various programs are designed to provide music education to local students and foster music appreciation in the next generation.

Around the World with Drum and Dance

250 Cascade students were introduced to Brazilian samba and Japanese taiko with a week long outreach.

Lapwai Schools Orchestra Program

Lapwai schools have offered band, choir, dance, drama and Native culture arts in the past but never stringed instruments until now.

Summer Institute for Piano and Strings

Students participating in the institute are given the opportunity to rehearse and perform in the state-of-the-art Jensen Grand Concert Hall.

Stay in School Quinceanera Program 2018

An in depth focus on Latino arts & culture workshops based on social issues pertinent to teens.

Idaho Falls Symphony Outreach

All outreach programs are designed to provide music education to local students and foster music appreciation in the next generation

Explore Music! 2018

Throughout the 2017/18 school year, Boise Philharmonic’s Explore Music! program brought our professional musicians into classrooms and auditoriums across the Treasure Valley, introducing classical music and the_

Kids Mountain Music Camp

Kids Mountain Music Camp (KMMC)  is a three day music and singing workshop in  McCall that culminates in a performance at local’s night at the Summer Music_

Corrido Concert Project

The goal of the Corrido (Ballads) Concert 2017 Project was to promote knowledge and understanding among Latino youth and others about the contributions of the Latino community_

Creative Access

Throughout 2017-2018 Idaho Parents Unlimited’s Creative Access Artist in Residence program provided arts education curriculum for students across Idaho in community centers, special and general education classes._

Culture of an Era

“Culture of an Era” was a project undertaken by the Bonners Ferry Band students in the 2017-2018 school year.  The primary focus of the year was swing_

Arts on Tour

A cornerstone of the College of Southern Idaho’s mission statement is to provide cultural opportunities for the community. To that end, the Arts on Tour performing arts_

The Elixir of Love

Opera Idaho presented Opera for the Young’s adaptation of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love to elementary and middle schools beginning on October 10 through November 7, 2017._

emPOWERme Arts Program

The Caldwell Fine Arts emPOWERme Arts Education Program sought to give students experience in the arts that increased tolerance and promoted self-confidence. As part of the 11_

High Country Strings

Limited affordable extracurricular music activities exist for youth in our rural area, High Country Strings program not only expanded performing arts opportunities in our area, but also_

2017 Summer Music Camp

Through musical skill building, taught by highly trained and seasoned music instructors, our programs are reaching an increasing number of North Idaho families where music education has_

Around the World with Dance & Drum

The 2018 Around the World with Dance and Drum program served approximately 260 students in grades k-12 in the rural communities of Cascade and New Meadows, Idaho._

Summer Music Camp

Music Inspires! In July/August (2016), the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint, hosted its fourth annual Young Artist Exchange Program with visiting students and musicians from Mexico as part_

High Country Strings

Limited affordable extracurricular music activities exist for youth in our rural area, High Country Music program not only expanded performing arts opportunities in our area, but also_

Educational Workshops

This year’s University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival explored the power of jazz as we celebrated 50 years of jazz education, performance and inspiration. Students had_

Summer Institute for Piano and Strings

The ISCS Summer Institute for Piano and Strings (SIPS) serves the entire area of SE Idaho, including over 400 students that are involved in the School District_

Nuestros Corridos Concert

The goal of the Corrido Concert 2016 Project was to promote knowledge about the economic and cultural contributions of the Latinos to the state of Idaho. Their_

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