SAN FRANCISCO ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT
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Mission Statement
Opening minds, hearts and futures through the wonder of creativity. In public school residencies, out-of-school programs and arts summer camp, our kids will be asked to think outside the box. Put their creative minds and bodies into work and play. So the rapt joy of not just observing — but immersing in the arts — prepares kids for the best parts of life. Believing in themselves, thinking, feeling and expressing articulately takes them all the way to becoming lively, robust adult beings. Since 1968, more than 200,000 elementary and middle school children have danced, painted, written, acted, sculpted, sung and performed through SFArtsED learning.
About This Cause
We are artists, administrators and volunteers. We are public: present in over 20 San Francisco schools, bringing art into classrooms, summer camps and after-school/weekend programs. We are people who believe passionately and intellectually that creativity and art introduced to kids — at decisive years — affects them in vibrant, practical ways for the rest of their lives. We are observers who have seen first hand exactly how kids respond when they take ownership of their unique intellectual curiosities. We see children expressing positively without fear. We see youngsters enormously proud of things they’ve tried and accomplished. We glimpse the excitement of creating, interacting, and jump-for-joy moments when kids have an opportunity to share their newfound talents with their friends and families. We are very lucky people. Founded in 1968, the San Francisco Arts Education Project provides hands-on arts experiences for students in San Francisco public schools in the form of residencies taught by some of the Bay Area’s finest artist teachers as well as in after-school and weekend programs and an arts summer camp started in 1995. SFArtsED students – more than 200,000 of them since 1968 – sing, dance and act. They paint, draw and sculpt. They tap their creativity, challenge themselves and each other and experience the power and thrill of the arts alongside artist teachers who share their talents, experience and joy of creation.Our mission is to bring art — in many exciting forms — to San Francisco’s youth in vivid, experiential ways. Arts education through participation is what firmly distinguishes the San Francisco Arts Education Project. We pursue this by bringing career artists directly to kids in every corner of our city; helping them ignite personal confidence and growth. As children enter a world of lifelong investigation, we seek to leave them with skills that not only embrace their childhood curiosity. But captivate their imaginations over decades. Essential to the creation of the organization was renowned sculptor Ruth Asawa, whose inventive ideas about arts education for all students are as relevant now as they was more than four decades ago when she founded Alvarado Arts Workshop – the organization that would eventually evolve into the San Francisco Arts Education Project. The original three-part mission? • Teach students new skills — from cognitive development to physical dexterity — as original performance and visual artwork is created • Infuse public education with arts experiences through participatory learning • Make the arts accessible to school-age San Francisco children at every economic level. Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) believed passionately in arts education for all children: “I think that I’m primarily interested in making it possible for people to become as independent and self-sufficient as possible. That has nothing really to do with art, except that through the arts you can learn many, many skills that you cannot learn through books and problem-solving in the abstract. A child can learn something about color, about design, and about observing objects in nature. If you do that, you grow into a greater awareness of things around you. Art will make people better, more highly skilled in thinking and improving whatever business one goes into, or whatever occupation. It makes a person broader.” She also believed the greatest teachers of the arts were artists themselves: “Art can only be taught by artists. If a non-artist teaches a subject called art, it is non-art.”