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

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

CM-026 Mindful Moves (PK–12)
Mindful Moves is a yoga-inspired program designed to help students bring calm, focus, and energy into their school day. Through simple yoga poses, breath work, and gentle stretches, students learn techniques to manage anxiety, boost concentration, and start their mornings feeling awake and energized. All activities are designed to be done right in the classroom, making mindfulness and movement accessible anytime, anywhere.
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VA-069 The Yarn Lab (3–12)
The Yarn Lab is an entry-level crochet program designed to introduce students to the art of crochet while building focus, patience, and creativity. In this hands-on class, students will learn basic stitches, follow fun projects, and discover how yarn and imagination can turn into tangible creations. Perfect for beginners, The Yarn Lab makes learning both engaging and rewarding. Adaptable for Special Education Single Session
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M-018 Crawfish & the Zydeco Tales: Interactive Kids Music Experience
Join Crawfish and friends for a toe-tappin’, hand-clappin’ Zydeco adventure straight from the heart of Louisiana! In this 42-minute interactive session, kids sing, dance, and laugh their way through fun YouTube hits like “Zydeco 123,” “Crawfish Shuffle,” “Don’t Eat My Fruit Loops,” and more. Each song brings a mix of rhythm, storytelling, and movement — […]
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VA-070 Create a Unique and Original Character (4-12)
Students will create an original character based on attributes and characteristics they come up with. They will be taught the fundamentals of basic shape drawing and how to turn it into a character (single session). Short-Term Residency option: Students will then be introduced to the fundamentals of drawing poses and expressions. Once the students design […]
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M-016 Music Production 101: Recording & Producing a Song (3-12)
Ready to make your own music? Music Production 101: Recording & Producing a Song is a fun, hands-on course where kids learn how to create songs from start to finish! You’ll explore recording your voice and instruments, making beats, adding cool sounds, and putting it all together to make a real song. At the end […]
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M-015 Giggle Grooves (K-12)
Get ready to laugh, rhyme, and groove! Giggle Grooves is a hands-on songwriting session where kids learn how to turn silly ideas into songs that sound catchy and fun. From picking wild topics like dancing pizza or runaway socks, to writing a goofy chorus everyone can sing, students discover how humor and music work together. […]
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M-014 Zydeco Drumming 101 - Styles & Grooves (K-12)
This session takes students on a fun and interactive journey through the heartbeat of Louisiana music history, the drums of zydeco. Originating in the Creole communities of Southwest Louisiana, zydeco blends African, Caribbean, blues, rock& roll and R&B influences into a high-energy dance style that’s powered by rhythm. Students will explore how zydeco drummers create […]
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VA-068 Art with no Boundaries (1-8)
In this session, students will be introduced to abstract painting in a free spirited style of artistic expression using acrylic paint, markers, oils pastels and pencils. Single Session
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VA-067 Master Matisse (1-4)
In the session, the students will learn about the artist Henri Matisse and work on paper cutting and collage inspired by the artist. Single session
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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

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