These curriculum-connected programs promote student and teacher confidence, creativity, and engagement through field trips, masterclasses, in-school residencies, classroom resource kits, and workshops.
Matinees
Experience the joy of live theatre in these curriculum-connected performances at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
SMoCA Museum Programs
Explore the rotating exhibitions at SMoCA through programs that promote critical thinking and artistic discovery.
Hope Chest
Hope Chest is a curriculum and complete set of teaching resources designed to immerse students in Holocaust survivor Oskar Knoblauch’s memoir, A Boy’s Story, A Man’s Memory: Surviving the Holocaust 1933–1945.
Hold on to Hope
Hold on to Hope is an educational Holocaust exhibition kit that inspires community through the life experiences of Arizona-based Holocaust survivor Oskar Knoblauch.
Arizona Wolf Trap
In this residency program, teachers learn how they can foster creativity, critical thinking, and emergent literacy skills through music, movement, drama, and puppetry.
Empty Bowls
Alli Ortega Empty Bowls uses arts-integrated workshops to teach students the artistic skill of creating bowls and the civic responsibility of caring for our community.
Kennedy Center Partners in Education
Kennedy Center Partners in Education is a national program that provides participatory workshops for teachers focused on integrating the arts into the curriculum.
SmART Integration
SmART Integration is a classroom-based, curriculum-focused residency program that targets learning academic standards through the arts.
Visions
Visions brings together advanced art students from diverse Maricopa County high schools for a yearlong series of activities designed to cultivate artistic skills, collaboration, and civic engagement.
Cultural Connections Dance
The Cultural Connections Dance provides high school and college dance student the opportunity to work with touring professional companies and their dancers.