In cultivating an engaging, creative, and academically challenging learning environment where all students have opportunities for creating, performing and responding in the arts, the SmART Schools program employs an impressive roster of renowned regional and national professional teaching artists. SmART Schools also partners with local and national arts and cultural organizations and institutions of higher education throughout the country.

Here is a current list of our partners on both the East & West Coasts:

• Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire

• New Hampshire Department of Education

• New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

• DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

• Harvard Graduate School of Education (Project Zero & the Arts in Education Program)

• The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College

• The ArtsLiteracy Project at Brown University

• Rhode Island College

• Rhode Island Department of Education

• Rhode Island School of Design

• RISD Museum

• Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

• Opera Providence

• Providence Black Repertory Company

• Smith's Castle

• Trinity Repertory Theatre

• Big Nazo Puppets

• Vermont Arts Council

• Saint Michael’s College

• Fowler Museum/UCLA

 

To find more information on Arts and Education please visit:

• The Arts and Education Partnership

 

More Information:

SmART Schools Brochure (pdf)

SmART Schools Master Teaching Artists and Faculty: High School (pdf)

SmART Schools Master Teaching Artists and Faculty: K-8 (pdf)

SmART Schools Evaluation (pdf)
Reviews findings during phase 1 of a three-part assessment of programs implemented in Rhode Island schools.

Read "SmART Schools Use the Arts to Engage Students."
EDC feature article that describes how the arts are used across the curriculum to engage all students.