Children's Studio School

Children's Studio School, highly regarded since its founding in 1977 for its provocative, transcultural Arts As Education© approach to teaching, is a DC community arts organization and (once) full-day school with a continuing mission of providing the opportunity for young children to work with highly-developed multimedia visual and performing artists, writers and architects as their total teachers, throughout the day.

At Children's Studio School, the arts are not in addition to education; they are the entire means of education. Through the intuitive, experimental, reflective and analytical processes of the arts, children develop many ways of thinking, being and functioning.

Other essential aspects of the mission are to educate other teachers and artists and to engage families from throughout the area in the Arts As Education© processes.