Washburn University of Topeka (Mulvane Art Center)

The Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University will expand its “Outreach Visual Art Education Project” to children attending area schools. This project will provide comprehensive arts education for 2500 preschool through eighth-grade students per year through three programs: “Art Beginning in Childhood” for preschool children, “Art After School” fors chool-aged children, and “Art in School,” for elementary-aged children. The programs bridge the curriculum in core content areas, investigate multicultural art forms, and integrate examples from art history. Project activities will allow students to experience art through hands-on participation in a variety of media and techniques including drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, working in clay, and creating sculpture. Children will have opportunities engage in creative exploration with the museum’s artist-educators.