Welcome Parents and Teachers!
Local art museums
Art Exploration & Activities
Book recommendations
Art Books
The above links will guide you to some valuable resources that you can reference as you work to foster a life-long appreciation of art with your children and students. We have so many amazing local art museums and there are a plethora of online resources and books available as well. We have selected what we think are the best sites and books that complement our lessons. Please let us know if you have a favorite that we missed!
Check our our curriculum to learn more about our lesson plans.
The Art Docents of Los Gatos were very fortunate to have artist Zoey Frank joining us at our October general meeting.
Zoey Frank is an exciting and talented emerging artist, whose award-winning work has been displayed across the country and featured in many recent publications. Ms. Frank shared her paintings and drawings with us, and discussed her approach to expressive portraiture, both as an artist and as an art educator. It was such a treat for all of us and we want to express our sincere thanks to Zoey Frank. Check out the video that she showed during her presentation.
Girl in Striped Shirt by Zoey Frank from BURNISH creative on Vimeo.
Interested in becoming at Art Docent?
The Art Docents of Los Gatos is actively seeking new recruits to help us teach art to the students of Los Gatos. No experience with teaching? No artistic talent? No problem – we will train you! All you need is a desire to work with kids and help them foster an appreciation for art. Once trained, we ask our volunteers to commit to teach in the classroom during the school year.
If you don’t have time to volunteer as an Art Docent, you can volunteer to help in your child’s classroom when there is an Art Docent lesson being taught. We also appreciate monetary donations to help fund our lessons.
All help is appreciated. All parents are invited to explore becoming an Art Docent.
The mission of the Art Docents of Los Gatos is to provide high quality visual arts curriculum to students in Kindergarten through 5th grade in the Los Gatos Union School District, with the goal of fostering the development of flexible, innovative and creative individuals. The Art Docents serve students in the Los Gatos elementary schools (Blossom Hill, Daves Avenue, Lexington, Louise Van Meter) and R.J. Fisher Middle School.