Opera ‘N Art

The Opera ‘N Art program provides a nuanced and impactful learning path that foregrounds the importance of the arts in the development of young children.

Every student is an active participant in weekly arts immersions that take place, either as a hands-on art session in our in-school studio, focusing on a single operatic masterpiece over the course of each of three trimesters, or in galleries and museums that specialize in contemporary art. 

See what 15 years of amazing programming looks like

In an effort to bring the one-on-one quality of HiArt!’s “Mommy & Me” model to the public school environment, Time In maintains a 5:1 student to teaching artist ratio to encourage the supportive “family” communication that so many of our students do not receive at home. 

During the non-studio weeks, students visit the city’s most important contemporary galleries and museums. Proudly carrying a personal sketchbook and artist-quality pencils, the children, mentored by resident artists, interact with the art they see.

Their sketchbook drawings – chronologically labeled with the artist’s name and the date – provide invaluable documentation of the children’s development in a range of visual arts competencies, and also document growth in their ability to analyze and interpret personal impressions and experiences.

No other independent program in the world, to our knowledge, offers the intellectually challenging and sophisticated, multi-sensorial programming that Time In offers, combining arts, literacy and life skills to such young children on an ongoing basis.

Time In serves every child regardless of physical disabilities, learning disabilities or extreme behavioral issues. There is no pre-selection of ‘gifted’ students.

We are committed to providing programming to as many children as we can fund, and to helping each one of them, individually, through the arts, to overcome the academic and social obstacles that they face on a daily basis, at the same time that through their continued immersion into the city’s living arts they gain socio-geographic traction.