Student Workshops:
Professional teaching artists visit the classroom to engage students in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. Workshop series can be customized from 1 to 5 sessions per classroom.

Short-Term Artist Residencies:
Designed to complement a curricular goal or central theme using a series of standards-based sequential arts experiences. These include:

• 6 sequential classroom lessons
• Collaborative planning time between teaching artists and classroom teachers
• Connections between the art forms and other areas of study

Skirball Artist – Teacher Partnership Program:
This is the Music Center’s most in-depth student workshop model. This residency program supports collaborative planning and teaching between Music Center teaching artists and classroom teachers. Residency includes:

• A minimum of 14 student workshop sessions per classroom
• Multiple collaborative planning sessions between artists, teachers, and Music Center staff
• A culminating student performance or presentation
• Assessment for student learning for each lesson and evaluation of residency goals and objectives

Arts C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Agencies:
Arts C.A.R.E. is an intensive after school arts education program for children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances (SED) and for their families/care givers. Professional teaching artists travel to community-based agencies to offer sequential arts workshops, usually in the late afternoon or early evening hours.

The program was designed in 1997 by the Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (DMH) and other County agencies. It is based on the belief that the arts are a vital part of life and that exploring, imagining, creating, sharing and performing can be transforming and healing experiences for emotionally disturbed children and their families.

For more information, call (213) 250-ARTS or email schoolprograms@musiccenter.org.