Orcas Arts Education Project

The Orcas Arts Education Consortium, a group over 15 Orcas organizations working to promote, provide and sustain arts education for our children, has a common Vision for Arts Education on Orcas Island:

The community of Orcas Island believes that arts education is a critical component of the basic education of our children. The young people of Orcas Island are enriched by exposure to and participation in the diversity of dance, music, theatre and the visual arts.

Through the Orcas Arts Education Project, led in partnership by Orcas Center, the Orcas Island Public School District and the Orcas Island Education Foundation, a consortium of over 15 representatives from island organizations are working towards comprehensive, sequential, developmental, and sustainable instruction in dance, music, theatre and the visual arts for our K-12 students.

Over the past 3 years, Orcas Center has provided classroom-based dance and theatre instruction for students in grades K-8 and has introduced new visual arts curriculum for selected elementary grades.

Funding for this program has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Orcas Island Community Foundation, Orcas Island Education Foundation, the Gould Family Foundation, and individuals.

 

To learn more about the Orcas Arts Education Project, please contact Andrea Cohen 360-376-7577, orcasandrea@yahoo.com