ATTENTION:
UCSD ArtsBridge will be on hiatus for the 2007-2008 school year due to funding cuts. Thank you for understanding.
We aim to start the program again should additional
resources become available.

Thank you for your interest in arts education.

ArtsBridge is an arts education outreach program at UCSD and part of ArtsBridge America network of 22 universities across the country offering such a program. The mission of UCSD ArtsBridge is to work in partnership with California public schools to provide high quality arts education to California's K-12 school children. ArtsBridge provides scholarships to qualified UC arts students, both graduate and undergraduate, to teach the arts and conduct arts-related workshops in visual art, dance, drama, and music.

Scholars have taught playwriting, photography, painting, drawing, sculpting, digital art, film making, modern dance, ballet, mask-making, play production, art history, set design, ethnomusicology, choral music, percussion, poetry, guitar, portraiture and much more. Projects often integrate cross-curricular topics like math, literacy, social studies, and science.

ArtsBridge looks for K-12 host teachers who are dedicated to incorporating arts-learning into their classroom curriculum. The ArtsBridge scholar works collaboratively with the classroom teacher to create unique lessons in the arts, which are linked to state standards as well as individual classroom needs, devising a project that is enriching and meaningful for each and every student.

The arts are a critical component of education - they provide an alternative means to reach out to disadvantaged learners, particularly those with language acquisition delays. Through ArtsBridge projects in urban and low-income areas, using dramatic and visual arts and digital technology, students have developed their creativity and imagination, improved their language skills, increased their motivation to succeed in academic learning, and reinforced their values of peace, community and diversity. ArtsBridge is also a means for university students to provide creative service to their communities while learning the value of social activism and developing long-term commitments to help the disadvantaged.