What is a St. Lucie Cultural Alliance Artist Residency?

A school selects a teaching artist – visual, media, performing, or literary – to deliver a series of intensive classroom sessions in collaboration with a teacher, that immerse students in a particular art form through project-based activities.

Residencies enhance existing curriculum, as well as complementing and enriching teachers’ instructional plans, particularly in disciplines where teachers require assistance, thereby providing professional development for participating educators. St. Lucie Cultural Alliance staff provides coordination and assistance throughout the whole process.

SLCA Artist Residencies seeks to enhance not only participants’ artistic skills but overall academic performance, fostering capacities for creativity and innovation, and equipping students with transferable 21st century life skills.

SLCA Artist Residencies are not exclusively oriented to activity teachers (visual arts, music, dance, etc.). Any educator interested  in exploring the possibilities of arts integration and its potential to add innovation and novelty to instruction is welcome to explore hosting an artist residency.