Essex partners with local agency to provide arts education

Posted: Wed, May 22 2019 12:00 am

In Oregon’s education budget, school arts programs get the short shrift. To make this up—districts must rely on community-based support to ensure students receive at least some arts education. This is what’s happening in Lane County. KLCC visits one school in the Bethel District to see an artist-in-residence program in action.

These 4th graders at Prairie Mountain School are jazzed to be creating art. Half of them are cutting cloth for a quilt. The rest surround a large mural, paint brushes in hand.

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4th graders painting a mural of the Oregon Trail

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