Parents as Arts Partners

The Center for Arts Education’s Parents As Arts Partners (PAAP) program fosters the creation of innovative programs for New York City public schools working in partnership with nationally renowned as well as locally focused cultural organizations to engage parents and families in hands-on interactive arts education activities. Through these unique family arts programs, parents have the chance to become artists in a range of mediums—from mural painting to songwriting to dancing—and learn how the arts connect to and enhance their child’s overall education. Since the program's inception, in 1998, there have been more than 1,200 PAAP programs in more than 500 schools, totaling more than $4 million in grants.
 

For 2010 the program has been redesigned in an effort to more fully integrate PAAP with CAE’s current public engagement and advocacy efforts. Of the thirty schools selected, twenty are first-time PAAP participants, and ten participated in the program last spring. These ten schools will be paired with the new PAAP schools, to promote an exchange of knowledge, experience and information. Qualitative/quantitative metrics will be put in place to track the arts as a vehicle to build parent engagement. The ten second-year schools will also benefit from coaches supplied by CAE to help build and engage their parent communities and foster arts education advocacy skills as an integral component of their PAAP program.
 

For questions about Parents As Arts Partners,  send an e-mail, call 212-971-3300 x327, or consult the Parents As Arts Partners Program FAQ for answers to commonly asked questions.