South Lake Tahoe
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Tahoe Arts Project
Mission
The mission of Tahoe Arts Project is to provide cultural enrichment and diversity for the community through the arts and education with particular focus on our youth.
About Us
The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understand understanding of civilization's most profound works.
Due to Lake Tahoe's physical isolation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, exposure to professional performing artists is limited. Tahoe Arts Project ("TAP") was established in 1987 by a group of parents, professional musicians and teachers to fill this void.
TAP's primary focus for the past seventeen years has been the production of in-school residencies. TAP's artists-in-schools programs meet the need for high quality fine arts activities for the region's children. TAP also produces a public performance series for the enjoyment of our community. TAP has been nationally recognized as a role model for other arts-in-education organizations.
TAP has produced over 800 lecture-demonstration, master classes and interactive workshops with acclaimed performing artists. TAP reaches over 6,000 students, in grades Kindergarten through 12th, within 10 schools in El Dorado, Douglas, and Alpine counties of California and Nevada. The artists whom students meet through the TAP programs serve as role models that demonstrate the values of self-discipline and the pursuit of excellence. Current research, such as the work of Eliot Eisner of Stanford University, validates TAP's philosophy that these experiences also help students develop their own creative and problem solving abilities, foster intellectual development and success in all academic areas.
Tahoe Arts Project is a nonprofit organization.
The mission of Tahoe Arts Project is to provide cultural enrichment and diversity for the community through the arts and education with particular focus on our youth.
About Us
The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understand understanding of civilization's most profound works.
Due to Lake Tahoe's physical isolation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, exposure to professional performing artists is limited. Tahoe Arts Project ("TAP") was established in 1987 by a group of parents, professional musicians and teachers to fill this void.
TAP's primary focus for the past seventeen years has been the production of in-school residencies. TAP's artists-in-schools programs meet the need for high quality fine arts activities for the region's children. TAP also produces a public performance series for the enjoyment of our community. TAP has been nationally recognized as a role model for other arts-in-education organizations.
TAP has produced over 800 lecture-demonstration, master classes and interactive workshops with acclaimed performing artists. TAP reaches over 6,000 students, in grades Kindergarten through 12th, within 10 schools in El Dorado, Douglas, and Alpine counties of California and Nevada. The artists whom students meet through the TAP programs serve as role models that demonstrate the values of self-discipline and the pursuit of excellence. Current research, such as the work of Eliot Eisner of Stanford University, validates TAP's philosophy that these experiences also help students develop their own creative and problem solving abilities, foster intellectual development and success in all academic areas.
Tahoe Arts Project is a nonprofit organization.