SMARTS Arts in Non-Arts Spaces

Discover an artist at work in a place you wouldn’t expect! All SMARTS Teachers come to SMARTS as artists and receive training to teach their art while also earning income as working artists. Some own ceramics studios, perform and record original music, dance for companies, act in community theater, and have published books. In this program, SMARTS Teachers will come to your school or organization as an artist and will demonstrate their art live in a place students wouldn’t expect. The purpose of this program is to expose students to careers in the arts, see an artist at work live, have an opportunity to ask them questions about their art, and to learn about SMARTS free public classes.

During the demonstration, the teacher may be visited by classrooms of students and teachers, administrators, students passing by in the hallway, or eating lunch. The school or organization will choose the location(s) where the arts demonstration will take place. The artist will be prepared to answer questions about SMARTS, what it means to be an artist, and their own career as an artist. Students will be invited to complete a SMARTS application to take free classes after school and on Saturday mornings at SMARTS in visual art, music, dance, theater, and creative writing by visiting www.smartsartschool.org/classes. This is a demonstration of art-making, this is not a performance.