Studio ACE is a non-profit organization, created in October 2016, whose mission is to enrich lives through Arts, Community and Education. 

artsconnect:
an arts integrated curriculum program

Our signature school program is ArtsConnect, a K-8 school program. This program integrates the arts with Common Core subjects. This student program employs Visual and Performing Arts Standards, the Elements and Principles of Art and the connection to art history for each lesson. 

Our primary focus is to supplement a sorely underfunded education system by offering schools in the Oceanside Unified School District an arts education program. Using an arts-integrated curriculum program that works in tandem with teachers and administration, students are given a different way to connect through Visual Arts, Music, Movement and Performance while learning core curricula such as Science, Social Studies, Math and English.

Studio ACE is currently working with 4 grades at Laurel Elementary, a total of 11 classes. We have just started at San Luis Rey Elementary with 2 classes, implementing the ArtsConnect program. We will continue to do so in the 2019-2020 school year and more classes at San Luis Rey. Both schools have a majority (96% and 85%) of socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Laurel Elementary principal Freddie Chavarria believes that “without a doubt, test scores and behavior has improved with the addition of an arts education program.”

If your school is interested in this program, please email Julia Fister here.

To learn more about Teacher Emily Granger, click here & for Consultant Linda Kallas, click here. 

We believe in the philosophy of Robert L. Lynch, President, Americans for the Arts: 
“The arts empower. The arts give a voice to the voiceless. The arts help transform American communities and, as I often say, the result can be a better child, a better town, a better nation
and certainly a better world.”