The ArtEsteem Program

Our priority: Body, mind, & heart development!

ArtEsteem curriculum guides students to think practically about the world and their abilities to manifest positive and creative outcomes. Classes build students’ social-emotional learning capacity, language and math literacy, aesthetic appreciation, and listening and performance skills. Our students learn–through dialogue, reading, writing, and on-the-ground exploration–conceptual understandings of social, historical, and cultural topics to engage and inform their minds, and develop the whole child.

During and after-school classes combine Attitudinal Healing concepts, art instruction, and classroom-management tools in an art integrated curriculum linked to the State of California Academic Content Standards.

Visual Arts, Cultural Arts, Digital Media & Animation, & more!

Visual Arts classes provide a multi-disciplinary curriculum that takes children/youth through a journey of self-exploration, critical thinking, family and cultural research, societal assessment, and the use of aesthetic tools for skill development and artistic creation.

The Cultural Arts class provides students with cognitive learning opportunities through drumming in a cultural and language rich environment. The curriculum incorporates phonics, the twin concepts of rhythm and sound, and cultural codes of conduct from around the world.