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COMPAS arts education programs engage approximately 80,000 children, teachers and parents in creating art each year. Professional artists from a variety of arts disciplines, cultural backgrounds, and life experiences work in nearly 200 Minnesota schools annually.
COMPAS provides students in grades K-12 with opportunities for direct participation in the arts. We have learned that artist residencies and other arts programming for youth can:
• improve literacy and other academic skills,
• help under-achieving students find a way to re-connect with learning in all subject areas,
• help students overcome cultural and other differences, while working together. Back to Top
COMPAS Arts Education Milestones
• COMPAS has collaborated with the Minnesota State Arts Board and other partners to conduct a Statewide Artists in Education Conference for the past ten years.
• COMPAS was chosen as one of 13 school partnerships nationwide to participate in Harvard University’s Project Zero in 1998.
• COMPAS, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education developed three new artist residency models for Minnesota schools and published Creating the Link-Connecting New Artist Residency Models with Education Standards, a resource for educators.
• COMPAS partners with Ordway Center for the Performing Arts to offer Writers & Artists in the Schools (WAITS) residencies in Saint Paul schools in conjunction with a Performing Arts Classroom performance.
• COMPAS has produced an anthology of student writing consisting of poems, short stories, dramatic works, and songs by students who have participated in WAITS residencies for over twenty years.
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