The Artist in the Classroom Project has provided quality Arts education to students in the Sedona-Oak Creek School District since 1989. Funded by the City of Sedona Arts and Culture Commission, the program pays an hourly stipend to a roster of local artists. The artists are interviewed each year and chosen for their artistic merit and desire and experience with working with students.
Interviews take place in the spring for the following school year.
The roster includes professionals from all four Arts disciplines, representing a variety of backgrounds ranging from commercial graphic design and animation to improvisatory theatre and jazz performance. The participants make presentations and lead activities in K-12 traditional and charter school classrooms. Since its beginning, the roster has grown to its current size of artists. Theatrical Movement, Maskmaking, Native American Crafts. Elementary, all schools.