Our unique Art School program was established in 1999 and has grown to serve 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students in McCall, Donnelly, New Meadows and Cascade. Art School places local practicing artists in all participating classrooms for professional teaching residencies. During these residencies, selected artists share their professional skills through a carefully-crafted curriculum developed to support National Core Curriculum Anchor Standards, cross-curricular learning, and 21st century skills. During the Art School program, students work closely with their artists-in-residence to complete individual and/or collective projects.

Within the Art School program, each grade works with artists around a unique set of artistic processes: 

• 3rd-graders focus on Performing Arts and Movement (dance, drama, movement, Taekwondo) through a 2-day Intensive at Barbara R. Morgan Elementary School. All 3rd grade classes are brought together for two full days of hands-on education as they travel through four performing arts learning stations. 
• 4th-graders focus on learning through Heritage Arts (storytelling, folk arts, Native American and immigrant arts, and crafts requiring local materials). Projects are designed to support existing Idaho history curricula for this grade and enhance place-based learning. 5th-graders focus on traditional Fine Arts (painting, ceramics, photography, etc.) with 4 artists-in-residence who rotate through the classrooms from January through April. 
• 5th-graders focus on exploring traditional and non-traditional artforms (painting, ceramics, 3-D scultures-3-D pens, gum art).