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Advocating for the Arts
Building Morale, Attendance and Educational Skills With the Arts Part One
By Kim Byrum Skinner
According to Carole M. Genshaft, director of education at the Columbus Museum of Art, approximately 30,000 participate in museum studios and school tours. The facility serves schools throughout Ohio and has developed a particularly strong partnership with Columbus Public Schools.
ARTful reading, tailored to the district's curriculum and supporting fifth-grade learning standards in the arts, language arts and social studies, allows students to tour the museum and explore works of art using the same language and reading comprehension tools used to interpret literature.
DepARTures: The Art of Language, The Language of Art, offers a year-long visual and language arts program to 300 fifth-grade students from 10 Columbus Public Schools classes. Students work with professionals ranging from museum staff to gallery teachers and guest poets-in-residence to gain a unique understanding of poetry and art, learning to express themselves
