Established in 1999, KidsVisions is a Long Beach Museum of Art program that serves as the visual arts education program for over 5,000 5th-grade students in the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD). KidsVisions helps achieve the Museum’s mission by providing visual arts education to a community in need, facilitating student success by stimulating curiosity, and fostering creativity through a hands-on, arts-based approach to learning.
All 54 Grade 5 LBUSD schools, teachers, and students participate in the district-wide program and attend annual field trips to the Long Beach Museum of Art. The program is free to all participants, including in-classroom standards-based lessons and activities around current exhibitions, school field trips and docent-led gallery tours, hands-on art workshops, student exhibitions, and transportation to and from the museum campus. For 65% of student participants, it will be their first visit to a museum.
The museum develops resources through foundation, corporate grants, and community contributors each year to cover 100% of KidsVisions costs. Transportation is a critical component of the program. A field trip becomes a challenge for teachers and students without the resources of school buses.
We aim to bring every LBUSD fifth-grader to our campus, including Grade 5 students attending the small school community of Avalon on Catalina Island, a part of LBUSD. The rural area distances students from external resources such as invitations to LBUSD-wide field trips. It has been four years since the last visit from Avalon students to our art museum and campus.
All 54 Grade 5 LBUSD schools, teachers, and students participate in the district-wide program and attend annual field trips to the Long Beach Museum of Art. The program is free to all participants, including in-classroom standards-based lessons and activities around current exhibitions, school field trips and docent-led gallery tours, hands-on art workshops, student exhibitions, and transportation to and from the museum campus. For 65% of student participants, it will be their first visit to a museum.
The museum develops resources through foundation, corporate grants, and community contributors each year to cover 100% of KidsVisions costs. Transportation is a critical component of the program. A field trip becomes a challenge for teachers and students without the resources of school buses.
We aim to bring every LBUSD fifth-grader to our campus, including Grade 5 students attending the small school community of Avalon on Catalina Island, a part of LBUSD. The rural area distances students from external resources such as invitations to LBUSD-wide field trips. It has been four years since the last visit from Avalon students to our art museum and campus.