ArtBound! In-School Artist Residencies
About ArtBound! In-School Artist Residencies
ArtBound, an integrative artist residency program by Art League Houston, connects teaching artists with elementary schools with limited resources, designing art classes to develop social-emotional learning skills and align with the HISD curriculum.
Each residency has an Art League Houston Teaching Artist visiting a school eight to ten times a semester, working with three classrooms per visit.
For each visit, the teaching artist works with each class for approximately one hour.
Art League Houston Teaching Artists are professional artists and experienced teaching artists.
Classroom teachers participate in the planning process to ensure that the residencies support and enhance their classroom curriculum.
In addition, the ArtBound! residencies integrate into H.I.S.D. curriculum and is provided primarily to grade levels third through fifth.
Each ArtBound! residency includes a culminating event, which can be an informal showing of student art work at the participating school or at a neighborhood library or other venue.
Since 2008, over 6,500 elementary students in H.I.S.D. have received visual arts instruction through the ArtBound! program that would otherwise not have access.
For more information about ArtBound!, e-mail community@artleaguehouston.org or call Art League Houston at 713-523-9530
2022-23 virtual ArtBound! exhibition
ALH is excited to invite the community to the Artbound! 2022-23 Virtual Student Exhibition! Take a digital stroll through the exhibit from the comfort of your own couch and view a selection of imaginative artworks created by students at Atherton Elementary, Ed White Elementary, Highland Heights Elementary, Jane Long Academy, Kashmere Gardens Elementary, Las Americas Newcomer School, Marshall Middle School, Seguin Elementary, and Sugar Grove Academy.
The 2022-23 Artbound! residencies are made possible through strong partnerships with dedicated teachers and school administrators at each campus who believe in the power of art. If you are interested in the Artbound! program during the 2023-24 year, please contact Rian Crane, rian@artleaguehouston.org.
PAST PARTNER SCHOOLS
Benbrook Elementary
Cage Elementary
Crockett Elementary
Dodson Elementary
Garden Oaks Montessori
Grissom Elementary
Hartman Middle School
Helms Elementary
Highland Heights**
Jane Long Academy*
Kashmere Gardens Elementary
Love Elementary
Lyons Elementary
Memorial Elementary
Paige Elementary*
Seguin Elementary School
Sugar Grove Academy
Wharton Dual Language K-8 Academy
Woodrow Wilson
2023-24 Partner Schools
Ed White Elementary*
Davila Elementary
Gross (Jenard M.) Elementary
Las Americas Newcomer School*
Fleming Middle School*
Thomas Middle School
Wharton Dual Language K-8 Academy
*Funded by the Arts Action Fund @ Arts Connect Houston
**Funded by the 23-24 Transformation/RISE Stage 1 Program @ Arts Connect Houston
WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT ARTBOUND! :
“This kind of program increases student interest and motivation to come to school every day”
“Students are learning content vocabulary and relating it to math”
“I learned that I can develop unique lesson plans with the use of art”