The Taft's dedicated team of professional artists and educators help you create a well-rounded curriculum for your students through our Art for All Outreach and Artists Reaching Classrooms.
Art for All provides a unique arts education experience to students who might have limited access to the arts. The program is designed for teachers whose classroom demographics demonstrate need, defined as greater than 50% of students receiving free/reduced price lunch. For this program, the Taft Museum of Art creates educational programming based on its special exhibitions.
Please note: activities are currently virtual only. Learn more here.
If you would like to participate please contact outreach@taftmuseum.org to determine if your school is eligible.
The Taft Museum of Art’s Artists Reaching Classrooms program (ARC) is a great way to enrich your curriculum and expand your students’ experience of the arts. All aspects of the program, including buses for field trips, are offered to participating schools free of charge.
ARC immerses high school art students in Cincinnati’s visual arts community and exposes them to careers in the arts. Professional artists visit classrooms to talk with the students about both the creative and practical aspects of a career in art. The program includes opportunities to visit an artist’s studio, such as a painter’s atelier, a glassworks, or a fine arts pressworks.
Students are expected to complete a research project on an object from the Taft Museum of Art’s collection, describe its history and significance, and explain why the artwork has personal appeal. Each classroom receives a set of Museum catalogues.
As a final project, students are asked to make artworks in response to the ARC experience and write artists’ statements demonstrating what they have learned. The program culminates in a professionally organized exhibition of selected student artwork.
Please note: activities are currently virtual only. Learn more here.
View this year's exhibition online.
If you would like to participate please contact education@taftmuseum.org to determine if your school is eligible.
Education Sponsor
Charles H. Dater Foundation
Children's Education Programs Generously Supported by
Joy and W.G. (Pete) Alpaugh Trust
Art For All Sponsors
Robert Gould Foundation
P&G Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Chemed Foundation
Artists Reaching Classrooms Sponsor
Chemed Foundation
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