Teaching Artist Program

Iberia Parish | Lafayette Parish | St. Landry Parish | St. Martin Parish | Vermilion Parish

Integrate the Arts

into core subjects

The Teaching Artist Program provides the opportunity for your students to experience a broad range of art forms and innovative arts activities in your classroom.

Music, dance, creative writing, visual arts, storytelling and folk arts are all available for you to consider. Each of the sessions are designed and led by a local Teaching Artist. The arts can be integrated with all areas of the curriculum and are proven to enhance student learning. Even when using the arts in limited ways, students are responsive and enthusiastic.

Invite a Teaching Artist to your classroom and experience the arts as powerful teaching, learning and motivation tools.

Participating school districts fund a limited number of sessions for its schools. Ask your school’s Arts Liaison about securing one of these allocated sessions!

Book An Art Session:

  • Find a session in the database below
  • Click the “Book a Teaching Artist” button
  • Request a lesson in the booking form
  • Coordinate with Teaching Artist for session date & time
BOOK A TEACHING ARTIST

Share Your Creativity with Young People:

Being a Teaching Artist isn’t about being a traditional teacher, it’s about sharing your artistic talents to inspire students.

As an AcA Teaching Artist, you make a lasting impact by introducing young people to your art form and showing them the lifelong value of creativity, self-expression, and artistic work.

AcA’s Teaching Artist Program gives public school students access to a wide range of arts experiences in their classrooms. In partnership with public school systems, AcA places local artists directly into classrooms to lead arts sessions designed and led by AcA Teaching Artists.

Current Parishes: Lafayette, Iberia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion

APPLY TO BE AN ACA TEACHING ARTIST

Welcome to the new Teaching Artist Program session database for the 2025-26 school year!

AcA’s Teaching Artist Program makes it easy for teachers to bring dynamic, hands-on arts experiences directly to their students.

Each 45-minute session is designed and led by a professional Teaching Artist, offering your class the chance to explore creativity through visual art, theatre, music, dance, creative writing, mindfulness, and more.

Sessions must be booked in blocks of three, allowing students to dive deeper into the experience.

Here in this database you can search sessions by parish, grade level, curriculum connection, school event, and art form to find the best fit for your classroom.

This new database format is designed with teachers in mind to help you find exactly what your students need.

School District

Grade Level

Discipline

Curriculum Connection

School Event Connection

Teaching Artist

VA-060 See You Later Alligator (PK-5)
Students will paint and color a precut alligator form and glue onto construction paper and we will talk about fascinating facts about this very large reptile that lives in our Louisiana Swamps. Single Session
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VA-060 Scenery Oil Pastel Blending (3-5)
In this session, students will learn to blend colors with oil pastels to create a beautiful landscape scenery. Students will be shown step by step how to use and blend colors with pastels. Single session
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VA-059 The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (3-5)
Dr. King fought for equality and justice for all people. He believed in peaceful ways to make a change. This lesson will focus on the leadership and the fight for civil rights in the United States. Students will be taught to draw the face of MLK, including his head, eyes, nose, mouth, and mustache, as […]
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VA-058 Veterans Day (3-5)
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VA-057 Diversity (2-5)
Students will be taught through a read-aloud of “Our Diversity Makes us Stronger,” which teaches students to accept themselves and others as they are. Helping students to respect all differences that make us unique. Students will be taught how to use part of a paper plate for this drawing of our world, and a person […]
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VA-056 Dandelion Painting (3-5)
In this session, students will learn the origin of the dandelion and how its been used for centuries in traditional medicine. Students will use acrylic paint, paint brushes and a tissue roll to create the dandelion on canvas or thick card stock. Single session
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VA-003 The Art of Surrealism: A Mixed Media Journey (3-5)
The students will explore what surrealism was and is today.
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VA-036 Scissors Skills (K-3)
Younger students are increasingly struggling with scissor projects, and this class aims to give them a good basis for this important coordination and creative skill. Tailored to the age group, this class will give basic instructions in scissor usage and safety, introduce different kinds of cuts, and allow students to complete a simple cut-out project. […]
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VA-035 Glittery Stars/Snowflakes (2-5)
Students will learn to fold and cut beautiful paper stars (or snowflakes, depending on the season), glue them onto a background, and add sparkly glitter. (The teaching artist will manage glitter to reduce the mess in your classroom!) Single session
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