Sierra Arts Foundation recruits, hires, and trains professional teaching artists to bring art integration initiatives into schools in Washoe County School District. Our teaching artists are two-career professionals, working as both an artist and arts educator. As a working artist, they are involved in an ongoing process of discovery, creation and exhibition, and refinement of skills in their discipline. As a working educator, they are a crucial resource for students lifelong learning in the arts.  Our teaching artists will spend several consecutive weeks onsite in each classroom during school hours teaching elementary students standard-base art lessons in areas of literary, movement, theater and visual arts. Sierra Arts Foundation provides all teaching materials, art supplies, and teaching-artist salaries.