ArtsNOW

09/02/2026

This week in , we’re celebrating Logan Elementary School in Columbia, SC — a school where creativity, collaboration, and a commitment to students continue to shape the learning experience. 🎨✨

Over the past three years, Logan has partnered with ArtsNOW through the generous support of the South Carolina Arts Commission (Arts Grow SC), building on a strong foundation of arts integration and bringing new energy to creative, hands-on learning across the school.

As the grant comes to a close, we’re especially proud of the school culture Logan has built, and the leadership behind it.

Principal David Copeland Jr. has championed this work from Day 1, consistently showing up for his teachers, students, and the ArtsNOW community. From attending ArtsNOW events to connecting with fellow school leaders, David leads with a genuine commitment to creating meaningful learning experiences for students.👏

While the grant chapter is ending, Logan is committed to sustaining and growing the work they’ve started. We’re grateful to have been part of their journey and hope this isn’t our last chapter together. 💙

Join us in celebrating Logan Elementary!

09/01/2026

Partnerships make big things possible, and we’re proud of what we’re building together with the 💙

ArtsNOW was featured as the top story in Young Audiences - National's August newsletter, highlighting the latest work happening through the Educational Advancement through STEM Engagement (EASE) grant.

Over the past year, EASE has been building momentum for arts-integrated STEM learning across the Southeast. ArtsNOW led professional learning and coaching for teachers, supported teacher leaders in developing and piloting arts-integrated math and science lessons, and this summer helped launch the next phase of the initiative with seven additional schools across Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

Together with Young Audiences National and our fellow affiliate, Young Audiences of Louisiana, EASE will reach more than 5,700 K–5 students over five years, giving educators sustained support to bring the arts into math and science learning.

We’re incredibly proud to partner with YA on this work, and equally proud to serve as the Southeastern affiliate of Young Audiences, bringing our shared vision for arts-integrated education to more schools, teachers, and communities.

Read the full feature from Young Audiences Arts for Learning: https://www.youngaudiences.org/whyarts/updates-on-ease-2025-2026

Here’s to building something that lasts—and to the teachers and students making it happen every day. ✨

Image The 2025–26 school year marked an important year for Educational Advancement through STEM Engagement (EASE), a national initiative of Young Audiences Arts for Learning (YA), with two EASE schools building the foundations for sustained arts integration in math and science. Throughout the acad...

08/28/2026

Funding comes from many different places for our partner schools, and we are so grateful to Alpharetta Elementary PTO for sponsoring our work in their school. Their community dollars are going directly into professional learning for their teachers, who in turn are able to provide more opportunities for engaged learning & student achievement in their classrooms. We love to see it! 🎉

08/27/2026

Registration is officially open for this year's Demonstration of Learning Days! 🎉

Join us to see innovative teaching methods in action, walk through classrooms, interact with students, and experience firsthand how the arts spark creativity, engagement, and deeper understanding across subjects.

Upcoming Dates:
📍 Cannons Elementary School, Spartanburg County School District 3
Oct. 21, 2026

📍 East Aiken School of the Arts, Aiken County Public School District
Nov. 13, 2026

📍 Dowell Elementary , Cobb County Schools
Feb. 24, 2027

📍 Deer Chase Elementary School, Richmond County School System
Mar. 31, 2027

📍 Ellen Woodside Elementary, Greenville County Schools
Apr. 9, 2027

Individual DOLs will get their own spotlight closer to their date, but click the link for more info and to register 👉 https://artsnowlearning.org/demonstration-of-learning-day-registration/

Registration is FREE and open to all - share this with someone who'd love to see the power of arts integration in person!

08/25/2026

For this week's feature, we're staying in the Augusta, GA region with Warren Road Elementary School🌟

Warren Road is another school in the Richmond County School System that we've had the pleasure of serving over the last few years, thanks to generous support from the Chestnut Family Foundation.

This school community has embraced arts integration with joy! Throughout the building, creativity is sparking curiosity, strengthening critical thinking, and helping students build confidence through meaningful, hands-on learning.🎨

We are incredibly grateful to partner with Warren Road, and to continue strengthening our relationship with new leadership this year. We 💙 our partner schools!

08/21/2026

Back in the spring, we shared that ArtsNOW received the 2026 South Carolina Governor's Award for the Arts - Organization. This summer, we celebrated it!🎉 🏆

This award recognizes our work advancing arts-integrated learning across the state. It is a huge honor to our team, but it also belongs to the educators who welcome creativity into their classrooms, the school leaders who invest in innovative teaching, and the students who bring learning to life through visual arts, music, dance, digital arts, and theatre.

We gathered this summer for a reception and award ceremony at the Columbia Museum of Art with our team, partners, and supporters. Special thank you to Ashley Brown from the South Carolina Arts Commission for her presentation of the award.

As a new school year kicks off, we're carrying this momentum forward, expanding access to arts-integrated learning across South Carolina and beyond.

Read more and watch the video: https://artsnowlearning.org/artsnow-celebrates-south-carolina-governors-award/

08/19/2026

This week's spotlight is another amazing partner school in Augusta, GA -
T. Harry Garrett Elementary School✨

Thanks to generous funding from the Chestnut Family Foundation, T. Harry Garrett is heading into their fourth year with ArtsNOW! Led by principal Stacey Walk, the school community has embraced the power of arts-integrated learning and has truly become a place were creativity thrives.🎭🎨🎵

We’re proud to partner with such an incredible school and community and can’t wait to see how they continue to grow. Cheers to another great year together!🌟

08/18/2026

Need classroom inspiration? Take a peek into a recent curriculum mapping session!

This curriculum map at Bryant Park Elementary School shows exactly what arts integration looks like when it's planned intentionally.

All grade levels. Classroom standards at the center. Art form standards integrated to support understanding & demonstration of learning through the arts.

Let’s take a science standard about life cycles, for example:
🎶 Through music, students compose a song or chant that tells the story of an organism's life cycle.

🎭 Through theatre, they use their bodies and facial expressions to pantomime and sequence each stage.

🪩 Through dance, they choreograph movement that mimics how a plant or animal changes as it grows.

🎨Through visual arts, they use modeling clay to show the sequence of a life cycle using shapes, lines, and colors.

Every approach hits the same standard (plus fine arts standards simultaneously!), and every student finds their way through something that clicks for them.

This is arts integration. Tag an educator or school who could use this for inspo! 💛

08/13/2026

This is why we do what we do. 💛

Meet Avery, a student who attended J.C. Lynch Elementary School, one of our ArtsNOW partner schools in Florence County School District Three, who is now thriving at J. Paul Truluck Creative Arts & Science Magnet School. She shares what arts-integrated learning means to her, and what it still means as she carries those experiences forward.

Stories like Avery's are the reason ArtsNOW shows up every day. When students experience learning through the arts, when they're given the chance to move, create, collaborate, and connect, something shifts. Confidence grows. Curiosity deepens. And the impact follows them well beyond the classroom.

This work is made possible by the people and organizations who believe in it enough to invest in it. Behind every student like Avery is a teacher we served, a school we partnered with, and a community that said yes to arts integration. Help us keep saying yes. artsnowlearning.org/give 💛