Artists-in-Schools Initiative

Does your idea of art in school involve making leaf impressions with crayons and white paper? Gluing popsicle sticks together to make picture frames? Our Artists-in-Schools Initiative is here to change all that.

Since 2015, CAC has brought professional teaching artists into schools to support math, science, language, and history curricula. Through interactive, engaging workshops taught by nationally acclaimed theatre artists, performance artists, dancers, poets, Grammy-nominated musicians, African drummers, and Emmy-winning digital music artists, students have unique opportunities to experience new outlets for emotional expression and new pathways for learning.

Through artistic immersion, the program helps foster a personal connection for students to a variety of academic lessons. What does this look like? Learning and reinforcing math principles, like fractions, through dance choreography; Science and history lessons are investigated with clever raps about topics such as the Revolutionary War and Einstein's Theory of Relativity; Exploring math through music and rhythm; or Learning various writing styles and methods through multiple poetry forms.

We have an ambitious goal to be in all twenty-two public schools in Chatham County. We're on track to make Chatham the first county in the state to do that! Our program is unique in that we never ask teacher, principals, or administrators to find funding to participate. We fully fund each residency with support from individual donors and local business, as well as through our partnerships with NC Arts Council and Chatham County. You can help by giving today!

Artists-in-Schools is made possible through partnerships with Chatham County, Chatham County Schools, and North Carolina Arts Council.