Lane Arts Council’s Artist Residency program provides schools across Lane County the opportunity to bring professional visual and performing artists into their classrooms to inspire their students through the power of the arts. Students learn new skills and methods of expression, develop creative thinking and self confidence, and gain career insights. Quality arts instruction provides young people with holistic learning experiences that engage minds, hearts and bodies.

Schools can select residencies from a wide variety of visual, performing, and cultural art forms that they would not otherwise be able to offer their students. Over the course of four 45-minute sessions with each classroom, Teaching Artists introduce students to the history of their art form, teach them the fundamental skills involved in the art form, and inspire students to create their own works of art.