Parents
Arts4All Florida Resources
Spotlight on Art:
Spotlight on Art videos highlight the many incredible Arts4All Florida teaching artists from across the state and bring the arts directly into your home for you and your family to participate in.
Wiggles and Words with Emily Dixon
Spring 2025 Art with Myrna Meeroff
Dance and Creative Movement with Jennifer Puig
African Dance with Miss Jennifer Puig
Folk Art Fish Collage with Sarah Hinds
Dance Can’t Stop the Feeling with Emily Dixon
Watercolor Seascape with Heather Heywood
Monochromatic Painting with Heather Heywood
Black Out Poetry with Sandy Olson-Hill
Meet our Student of the Month Trophy Artist, Carmen Rojas Gines
Encanto Choreography with Jennifer Rosoff
The Greatest Showman Choreography with Jennifer Rosoff
Music at Home with Keandra White
Dancing to the Beat vs Dancing to the Lyrics of a Song with Maddy Stewart
Twilight Sky with Bird Silhouette with Lee Cohen
Create a Paper Plate Shaker with Christopher Kahl
Create a Pan Flute with Christopher Kahl
The Art of Zentangle with Hipster the Artist
Mixed Media Fall Painting with Lee Cohen
Seated Belly Dance with Jennifer Puig
Brasilian Architecture with Myrna Meeroff
Bachata Dance with Jennifer Puig
Dance Musicality with Maddy Stewart
Sun Printing with Mikaela Williams
Drawing Googly Eyes with Megan Holmes Cameron
Monotype Printingmaking with Angela Dickerson
Dance/Movement with Emily Pozek
Making Your Own Mandela with Megan Holmes Cameron
The Artwork of Charles Searles with Dee Youmans
Seated Stretching with Jennifer Rosoff
Making a Musical Shaker with Perdita Ross
Ziplock Monotypes with Angela Dickerson
Creating Your Own Rhythms with Keandra White
Spotlight on Art-Nature Journal Part 1 with Yarrow Ries
Spotlight on Art-Nature Journal Part 2 with Yarrow Ries
Kaleidoscope Painting with Angela Dickerson
Art classes:
Arts4All Florida conducts art classes in community centers, schools, and other recreation centers across the state. Some of our programs are now VIRTUAL. Community art classes are open to people of all ages and abilities.
Camps:
Arts4All Florida offers spring break and summer camp programs that teach music, movement, theatre, and visual arts to students of all abilities. Some of our programs will be VIRTUAL this summer.
Time 4 Art
At Home Art Activity Ideas: Create art at home using activities created by our amazing teaching artists.
Create Your Own Brazilian Architecture
Artform: Visual Art and Culture
Skill Level: High
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Upper Elementary and Up
Create Your Own Chinese Hat
Artform: Visual Art and Culture
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Elementary and Up
Lets Make a Monster
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Kathi Darby
Age range: Preschool and Up
Window Terrarium
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Kathi Darby
Age range: Upper Elementary and up
Give Me Some Rhythm!
Artform: Music
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Upper Elementary and up
My Day in Pictures
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Sally Alexandres
Age range: Elementary and up
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble!
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Raymond Jimenez
Age range: Preschool and up
Creating your own Brazilian Instrument – Caxixi
Artform: Visual Art and Music
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Preschool and up
Musical Theater
Artform: Drama
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Elementary and up
Painting with Dots
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Kathi Darby
Age range: Elementary and up
Puppet Fun
Artform: Drama
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Elementary and up
Use Your Imagination
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Alana DaCosta
Age range: Elementary and up
How to Care for a Special Object
Artform: Visual Art/Literary
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Sally Alexandres
Age range: Elementary and up
Ladder to the Moon
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Victoria Andalucia
Age range: Elementary and up
Ladder to the Moon (Advanced)
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: High
Teaching Artist: Victoria Andalucia
Age range: Upper Elementary and up
Creating your own Virtual Classroom using CoSpaces.io – Part 1
Artform: Visual Art and Technology
Skill Level: High
Teaching Artist: Janalyn Peppel
Age range: Upper Elementary and up
Creating your own Chinese Ansai Waist Drum
Artform: Music with Geography
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Elementary grades and up
Worry Dolls
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Victoria Andalucia
Age range: Elementary grades and up
Lesson: Let’s Dance!
Artform: Movement
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Elementary grades and up
Creating your own Mexican Serape
Artform: Visual Art and Culture
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Preschool and up
Let’s Go Abstract!
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Sally Alexandres
Age range: Preschool and up
All Mixed Up Treasure Hunt, Part 1
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Chris Kastle
Age range: Elementary grades and up
All Mixed Up Treasure Hunt, Part 2
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Chris Kastle
Age range: Elementary grades and up
Comedy Time
Artform: Drama
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Preschool and up
Let’s Make a Joke Book
Artform: Drama
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Preschool and up
Experiment with Color
Artform: Visual Art
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Sally Alexandres
Age range: Elementary and up
Pantomime
Artform: Drama
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Elementary and up; work with a friend or in a group
Creating Your Own Sombrero
Artform: Visual Art and Costume
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Elementary and up
Making a Bird Sculpture
Artform: Visual Arts
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Raymond Jimenez
Age range: Elementary and up
Ahoy, Where’s my Treasure Map
Artform: Visual Arts
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Raymond Jimenez
Age range: Elementary and up
Drawing a Horse, Lesson 1
Artform: Visual Arts and Technology
Skill Level: High
Teaching Artist: Janalyn Peppel
Age range: Elementary and up
Advanced – Worry Dolls
Artform: Visual Arts
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Victoria Andalucia
Age range: Elementary and up
Advanced – Let’s be a Hero
Artform: Visual Arts
Skill Level: Medium
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age Range: Elementary and up
Look at the Shapes Around Us!
Artform: Visual Arts
Skill Level: Simple
Teaching Artist: Alana DaCosta
Age range: Preschool and up
Creating Your Own Brazilian Architecture
Artform: Visual Arts, Math, Architecture
Skill Level: High
Teaching Artist: Myrna Meeroff
Age range: Upper Elementary and up
Let’s Dance
Artform: Movement
Skill Level: Low
Teaching Artist: Nanci Dorau
Age range: Preschool and up
Webinars:
Arts4All Florida provides monthly webinars during the school year so that teaching artists, classroom teachers, cultural arts organizations, parents, and adult artists with disabilities can keep up-to-date on the latest information on the arts and disability. Archived webinars are also available.
Florida Department of Education Sites of Interest
Other Resources
- Florida Diagnostic & Learning Resources System: FDLRS includes twenty Associate Centers that serve from one to nine school districts. These Centers collaborate with districts, agencies, communities and other personnel and educational entities, providing education and support for teachers, parents, therapists, school administrators, and students with exceptionalities throughout the State of Florida.
- The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD): The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities provides information and consultation to individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and related disabilities. There are seven CARD centers throughout the state providing various services.
- Project 10- Transition Education Network: Project 10 is Florida’s statewide discretionary project supporting the secondary education transition of youth with disabilities.
- Disability Rights Florida: Disability Rights Florida is the designated protection and advocacy system for individuals with disabilities in the State of Florida.
- Family Network on Disabilities of Florida: This is a statewide network of families and individuals of all ages who may be at-risk, have disabilities, or have special needs and their families, professionals, and concerned citizens.
- Disaster Guide: Developed by the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council and the Governor’s Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, the “Disaster Ready” guide can help anyone prepare for a disaster and includes information that is important for people who have disabilities and their families.
- VSA at the Kennedy Center: This is a collection of resources designed for parents to gain more useful information on the relationship of arts, education, and disabilities.
- FAAST (Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology): FAAST provides demonstrations, information, and device loans to help Floridians make informed decisions and select the AT that best meets their needs.