Who Should Watch This Program

“Bringing Artists to Your Community” demonstrates ways that teachers and professional artists can collaborate to identify instructional needs and meet them using arts-based approaches. The program can be used in a professional development setting by classroom and arts specialist teachers to help them work effectively with professional artists as well as by artists to help them understand the skills they need to work in classrooms.

Other audiences for this program might include:

• arts organizations, to provide insights on current or potential visiting artist programs;
• curriculum or arts project planners, to expand ideas on bringing the arts into a unit of study; and
• administrators, parents, funders, and policymakers, to gain support for a visiting-artist program.