Welcome to the Arts Education Department!
Mission
The SFPS Art Department provides an exceptional, comprehensive, culturally responsive, standards-based program of art education to K-12 students in Santa Fe Public Schools. We prepare children and youth for college, career, and community readiness including active participation, leadership and/or lifelong engagement with art and design in Santa Fe.
Department Profile
- 39 teachers
- 2 staff members
- 1 content-specific instructional coach
- Every Elementary student receives 50 minutes of weekly art instruction
- Most Middle School students receive 50 minutes of daily art instruction during their Middle School years
- Electives at the High School level include Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Crafts, and Film. One HS offers a Design/Architecture pathway.
- Santa Fe High School offers AP Studio Art.
Our vision for the future of SFPS Arts Education includes
- SFPS proudly and publicly champions arts education as a core subject, essential to equity and the intellectual, social, emotional, and cultural development of its student population.
- Art education is culturally responsive education.
- Art studios are havens for social emotional learning.
- Art and design education is visual literacy education.
- Art and design education encompasses traditional and contemporary forms.
- Art and design education at SFPS maximizes community resources.
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We welcome parent and community volunteers in our district art studios. Artist, craftspeople, designer, and architect parents, grandparents and guardians: we need your input and support! Please don't hesitate to get involved in your child's school art program, at any level.
I invite you to contact me directly with feedback and ideas on elevating Art Education at Santa Fe Public Schools.
Warmly,
Cristina González, M.F.A.
Arts Education Coordinator
cgonzalez@sfps.k12.nm.us
505-467-2558
BF Young Professional Center
1300 Camino Sierra Vista
Santa Fe, NM 87505
