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​Artists are paid for instruction time with students – many schools require two days of instruction to reach every student in every classroom.

Art supplies often include meeting basic classroom needs such as pencils, drawing paper, crayons, markers, and colored pencils as well as project-specific supplies.  Larger schools often surpass this budget for one semester.

Many classrooms simply can not be stocked with basic drawing supplies due to budget restraints.  Our program allows students to not only have basic classroom supplies during an artist’s residency, but also supplies students with specific art supplies they may use throughout the year to enhance their classroom experience beyond our limited program

Our residency programs provide specific art supplies such as brushes, pastels, music, drawing, painting, printmaking, collage papers and inks, books, magazines, posters, and many more project-specific supplies.

Our artists are not required to have a teaching degree, but are often experienced and ready for the challenges of a classroom.  In order to keep our artists up to date and prepared with new and unique ideas it is important to provide them with art books, magazines, instructional support online, music, and equipment that can be shared between classrooms such as: recording equipment, cameras, etc.

The need for each student for the year varies from classroom to classroom and school to school.  The basic budget for one student is $25, but ArtsBank often surpasses this in leftover supplies that stay in the classroom for students to share and use with their classroom teacher after a residency program.