Art & Reading: A Book Tasting

Art & Reading: A Book Tasting aims to increase an appetite for visual arts outside of the classroom while infusing literacy by teaching hands-on activities based on Art/Reading Standards. It gives children from diverse communities the opportunity to explore and experience visual arts alongside literacy in a unique way. By creating their own books and becoming an author and illustrator of their own stories without judgment, literacy becomes much less of a chore and transforms a shy child into a presenter, a courageous child into a scholar with the ability to teach a learned skill or two to his or her peers.