Above: a student at TBS in a print making workshop led by Charlotte Reinhold.
PAINTS (Professional Artists in the Schools) is a program that helps schools throughout Nova Scotia to bring professional artists into their classrooms. Artists may be members of both Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) and the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council (NSDCC).
PAINTS artists are paid $40 per project hours.The school contributes $18/hour, and PAINTS providesw $22/hour. The program also provides support for supplies and materials as well as travel expenses for artists.
The purpose of the PAINTS program is to put professional artists in schools to work with students, and to share as much as possible their own art practice.
PAINTS is a program of VANS and is made possible through the support of The Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage & The Nova Scotia Department of Education.
Objectives
- To bring Nova Scotia's professional visual artists and their work to the attention of students, teachers and administrators in the province's schools.
- To provide opportunities for students to expand and explore their potential. Creativity, problem solving, risk taking, communication, self discipline, critical thinking, self expression, aesthetic expression and art appreciation may all be involved in the work.
- To involve students and teachers in creative processes.
- To encourage students, teachers and parents to involve themselves in art as participants and as audience.
- To provide role models for students who want to pursue visual art as their work, their vocation.
On our website you'll find all the information you need to get involved. So take a look around, and call or write with any questions.
