arts education

The Trump Administration announced sweeping cuts to federal grant funding through the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Organizations in South Florida like the Miami Music Project, which provides free music education and development programming to under-resourced children, received emails that their funding would be cut.

The Vizcaya Museum & Gardens looks like the stuff of fairytales — who wouldn't be inspired? Hundreds of students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools visited the historic estate this week to make art with local artists and get a break from the classroom.

Through the program, kindergarteners through second graders in 10 participating schools in Alachua, Marion and Miami-Dade counties receive music instruction for at least 30 consecutive minutes twice a week.

The Gasper Arts Center opened during the pandemic — in the early part of 2021. Now the owner, Laura Gasper, hopes it will fill the need for more affordable artist studio space and office space for creatives.

A Florida International University acting class held virtual Shakespeare workshops with high school students in Miami-Dade County.

Band was the last period of the day, and the anticipation kept Valeria Valera going through her other classes.“When I think about school, what motivates…

A teacher banged a wooden spoon on the bottom of a saucepan. That, plus honking horns and the standard graduation songs — “Pomp and Circumstance” and…

The City of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County Public Schools' "STEAM Plus" pilot program, which stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math,…

Students at Downtown Doral Charter Elementary School are completing a mural to show solidarity with Venezuela. The mural features the red, blue and yellow…

Half of the percussion section is lined up along a classroom wall, with whiteboards to their backs. Each young boy is shaking a shekere — a West African…