How art works for kids

This is about igniting the unequaled power of imagination. It works. We welcome you to investigate our programs, including SFArtsED Summer, After School, and Artists-in-Residence, where we give our students the tools to tap into that creative energy.

Through enthusiastic, active, direct mentoring in visual arts, music, dance, theater and many other disciplines,

our children:

Develop intuition, reading skills and creativity along with mental and physical dexterity. This is literacy at its best.

our children:

Are more confident and interested in school. They energize the school environment. They are being educated, even those who were formerly hard to reach.

our children:

Learn to adapt to — and respect — different ways of thinking, working and expressing themselves across cultures.

our children:

Take artistic modes of problem solving to every situation using expressive, analytical and developmental tools.

our children:

Are drawn to analyze nonverbal communication and embrace vastly more powerful and effective ways to communicate on their own.