Welcome Teachers!

The Santa Paula Art Museum's ArtSPARK educational program ignites students' imaginations and opens the door to arts education and creative exploration. The Museum offers on-site school tours and arts-integrated curriculum. All ArtSPARK tours and resources are free of charge, and are designed to increase arts access in our local schools through engaging activities for students, and simple integration for teachers.

Suppport for the Museum’s ArtSPARK education program comes in part from the California Arts Council, the County of Ventura’s Arts and Culture Investment Fund, John Logan and Tommy Tonge, The Suzanne Arnstein Johnston “Another Beautiful Day to Excel” Fund, The Smith-Hobson Foundation Fund, and The Paul and Anne Leavens Family Fund.

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Lesson Plans

The Santa Paula Art Museum creates original lesson plans based off of current exhibits for all ages. These lesson plans are distributed to our ArtSPARK tours, Boys and Girls partnership, Free Family Days, and available to teachers for Free! Check back to see our most current lesson plans. Please feel free to reach out to educator@santapaulaartmuseum.org with questions or to receive corresponding teacher sheets with CA Visual Arts standards and discussions prompts for each lesson.

ArtSPARK On-Site Museum Tours

During on-site museum tours, Museum Educators lead collaborative discussions, idea exchanges, and questioning strategies to encourage critical thinking, interpretation, and verbalization skills. Students will tour the Museum's current exhibitions, and participate in a fun and engaging hands-on art project to reinforce exhibit themes.

SPAM’s ArtSPARK School Tour Program is offered at no cost to schools. For more details and to request a school tour, please fill out the tour request form below. Once your information has been received, a Museum Educator will contact you to confirm the date and details of your tour. Tours are 90 min. (1.5 hours)

NEW: We now offer walking tours of the local murals in Santa Paula! Please add “mural walk” to the special request box on your ArtSPARK request form if you are interested. The walk is led by our educator and includes and introduction to murals, a map of Santa Paula and notes for students to take home. It is a 1 mile loop. This walk takes about 1 hour to complete. We can pair this with an additional 30 min in the museum for your field trip.