ARC

Artist Reaching Classrooms is the Taft museum's stellar example of making real impact in young adults lives. This gem of a program goes the extra step to deliver young artist to adulthood with experience.

The High School focused program is divided into several components: 

Participating schools meet with local professional artists. These artists share their experiences and artwork in the form of presentations and studio visits. Many artists know and remember the value of being in the studio and seeing the art making process first hand. 

The program seeks to engage students in thinking and discussing the visiting artist's methods & techniques. The dialogue is an examination of the relationship among artist, art, and society.

The museum is opened up to the students as a resource for artists to draw-inspiration. In this process students are invited to create art that draws from the experience of visiting artist, the taft museums collection, and beyond. This experience all comes together in a widely celebrated professional exhibition held at the Pendleton Art Center in Over the Rhine. 

ARC is an educational experience that introduces young artists with inspirational examples of professional art and artists. This experience strives to create a dialogue and bring resources to students. The program finishes strong with a great juried student exhibition where students participate with dozens of other high school art programs. For many of the students the experience is there first taste of exhibiting, as well as first hand experience with professional standards of displaying artwork (thru museum staff). Several student artist are selected through a jurying process to win prizes and scholarships based on the merit of their artwork.

The Taft Museum, ARC

At parProjects we are constantly investigating educational programming that works in the classroom and beyond. The ARC program at the Taft Museum offers several layers of experience to High Schools Students and parallels one of our goals, to help lead Students into adulthood by providing programming that benefit adults by providing real impact. 

Thank you,

 parProjects