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
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
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