Elementary school teachers, principals, superintendents and board members from 21 Los Angeles County school districts are convening throughout the city this month for the third Getty Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.
The institute was created as a pilot project to explore ways of teaching art to children as a "discipline-based" program incorporating art history, criticism, production and aesthetics. The philosophy behind the program encourages art as a serious, integrated part of a balanced curriculum instead of as recreation or copy work.
