Arts+ Scholars Foundation exists to promote equitable arts programs in the Sausalito Marin City School District so that all students are prepared to participate in arts education opportunities on an equal footing with their Marin County peers when they enter high school.

Arts+ Scholars Foundation Two-Pronged Mission

Promote Equitable Arts Education Opportunities by Providing:

  • After-school and other extra-curricular arts programs such as Open Art Studios, Private Individual and Group Instrumental Music Lessons

  • Student Art Shows

  • Musical Instruments for Home Practice

  • Scholarships for Music and Art Camps

  • Short-term funding for Arts Teachers

  • Arts Pilot Programs

  • Arts Liaisons Position

  • Art Supplies and Art Book Materials

Pursue a World Class Arts Program at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy:

Organize and fund development of the SMCSD 5-Year Strategic Arts Plan in collaboration with The California Arts Project (TCAP) and the District

  • Following guidance from California Arts Education Framework (2020) and companion document CA Arts Standards for Public Schools (2019)

  • Including the five Arts Disciplines mandated by the California State Board of Education

“The arts are a major area of human cognition, and one of the ways in which we know about the world and express our knowledge. Much of what is said in the arts cannot be said in another way.”
— Howard Gardner

  • Incorporating The Four Artistic Processes

  • Linking this work to the District’s Strategic Plan (LCAP)

Promote Professional Learning in Support of Effective and Equitable Arts Learning

Arts+’s Current Projects

“Education is a process of learning how to become the architect of your own experience. The arts have distinctive contributions to make to that end through their emphasis on the expression of individuality and through the exercise and development of the imaginative capacities.”
— Elliott W. Eisner

  • Music Teacher Position

  • SMCSD Long Term Strategic Art Plan