Art Docent Program

In the Rincon Valley Art Docent Program, volunteers sign up to teach art lessons in the classrooms once a month. Our Art Docents teach in one or more of our seven elementary schools, offering almost a dozen art lessons at each grade level, TK/Kindergarten through sixth grade. The lessons are in kit format and our docents check out the lessons and materials; it’s like a lending library of art lessons. 

The Art Docent Program started over 28 years ago and was modeled after another school district’s program. It began with three parents with three lessons for all the schools in the district to share. The Art Docent Program has now grown to over 75 lessons, including a ceramic clay lesson at every grade level. We average 130 Art Docents and they teach more than 875 art lessons annually. This adds up to over twenty thousand individual pieces of art work that are created because of this wonderful program and the amazing group of volunteers that support it.