Visual Arts at The Project School consist of two distinct but connected components. Visual Arts Workshops and Daily Art Immersion work in concert with each other to provide experiences for Project School students to express themselves and their learning through art.   

Visual Arts Workshops happen at least twice a week. The Art Workshop is project-based and consists of reflective time devoted to the artistic creative production process. Students can use this time to align their conceptual and philosophical imagery with tangible visual creations surrounding the Compelling and Generative Topic and Question. The work developed will be based upon our students introspectively examining issues related to the Topic/Question, surfacing personally relevant concerns and then producing significant in-depth work that personifies their own constructed meaning.

Through close collaboration with the classroom teachers, our visual arts program is authentically embedded into the daily P3 curriculum. Through Daily Art Immersion, our curriculum weaves mathematics, the sciences, social studies, and language arts seamlessly into these other academic core curriculum areas in accordance with the Indiana Visual Arts Standards. The visual arts teacher consistently works in the same classroom during other core areas of study to support the embedded cross-curricular art standards, art history, art criticism, problem- solving, and critical thinking skills. During the Art Workshop, the classroom teachers work together with the art specialist integrating other areas of study into students’ current visual projects. This also allows opportunities for visual projects to meet individual learner’s developmental needs, as well as various curricular, classroom and community needs.