Arts Focus Program

The Pact School has an intensive arts program called "Arts Focus" that is designed to help students explore art in-depth in five subject areas: clay, drawing and painting, paper arts, textiles, and 3-dimensional art. In this program, each child rotates through all the disciplines over a two-year period. The program concludes each year with a professional-grade art exhibit during the last month of school. The exhibition this year will be held at Mountain View City Hall.

The enhanced arts curriculum is designed to:

(1) substantially increase the number of hours the children participate in creative exploration,

(2) expose them to a much greater variety of art media than what the schools are able to provide, and

(3) contribute enormously to the children's cognitive, academic, and social development. The goal of this program is for the children to experience all phases of the creative process, with emphasis on the free expression of ideas (rather than on simply creating facsimiles of pre-established end products).

This program was conceived, designed and implemented by PACT parents who volunteer their time extensively to make it happen. It is funded by a grant from the Christensen Fund.