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TPAC Education directs programs that bring exciting arts opportunities and learning to a diverse audience, from pre-school to adult. |
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Since 1982, TPAC’s Humanities Outreach in Tennessee (HOT) program has reached more than 1.5 million schoolchildren. Through the Season for Young People, K-12 students across the state come to TPAC to experience professional, performing arts productions. Each year, HOT offers drama, instrumental music, opera, and dance presentations that appeal to students ranging from kindergarten through the 12th grade. Programs are selected to complement learning objectives in school curricula. Teacher guidebooks contain background information, definitions of terms, and lesson plans. HOT makes cultural experiences readily available for Tennessee students, supplements classroom programs already in existence, bring works of art to life for students, and enriches students’ lives. |
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ArtSmart trains and further develops professional artists as Teaching Artists to guide children in partnership with their classroom teachers into meaningful encounters with quality works of art. It also prepares classroom teachers to develop in-depth lessons focused on chosen arts experiences for their students. Seminars, workshops, guidebooks, classroom activities, and Teaching Artist visits are available for each participating school. This program helps teachers integrate the study of quality works of art into the curriculum, making a case for the importance of arts experience in a well-rounded education. |
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Wolf Trap Early Learning through the Arts places professional performing artists in Head Start classes and pre-schools to work with children 3-5 years old (most considered “at-risk”). Along with their teachers and parents/families, the children learn basic skills through the disciplines of drama, music, and movement. The collaboration between performing artists and early childhood professionals serves to enrich and motivate the teacher’s professional develop-ment; engage young children in active, creative learning experiences, energize the efforts to bring parents and caregivers together in the classroom; and enliven the classroom environment. As Wolf Trap activities are woven into the curriculum, the arts become a new way of teaching, learning, and knowing. |
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InsideOut offers adult learners opportunities throughout the year to attend seminars, panel reviews, meet and greets, and other educational events related to TPAC’s Broadway Series, TPAC Presents Series, production by TPAC resident companies (Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, Tennessee Repertory Theatre), as well as other professional performing arts group appearing at TPAC. Approximately 3,000 people are served each year through this program. |
