In collaboration with the Vancouver School Board, AiRS creates vibrant studio spaces in schools. We then invite local, professional artists to activate these studios to facilitate inspiring, interdisciplinary visual art engagements for every child.
Our in-school artist-in-residence program brings art alive for all kids, eliminating barriers to access for kids while championing diverse local artists.
“Arts let us freely express ourselves and let us say what we want and feel, however we want to feel.”
- Student at Cunningham Elementary

Your gift today provides enriching arts education to students of all backgrounds, helping them grow into resilient, creative and curious people that can change the world.
The Artist In Residence Studio program is honoured to work together on the unceded, unsurrendered and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm|Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh|Squamish & səlilwətaɬ |Tsleil-Waututh people, where we learn, live and work. We humbly acknowledge that we are unlearning and relearning and with this acknowledgement comes the commitment to engage in ongoing acts of reconciliation.
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