Ask for More Arts is a school and community-wide partnership that believes today’s Jackson Public School students need arts learning to improve their academic performance, graduate, and prepare them to become engaged and productive 21^st Century citizens.

Our Programs

Professional Development for Educators – AFMA offers strategies for integrating the arts into regular classroom teaching, engaging students of all learning styles in ways that encourages each student’s personal talents and skills, and deepening the learning experience.

Art Smart Parents – AFMA engages parents in learning more about and speaking up for increased arts education in their children’s schools. Art Smart parents provide arts learning at home and support arts experiences in school and in the community.

LifeShards – LifeShards 1st Saturdays is a community project established by Ask for More Arts in partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art. LifeShards engages families in gallery experiences and creating art.

JumpstART – Classroom teachers and teaching artists collaborate to provide arts integration in the classroom and culturally relevant learning through the theme, Our Community – A Sense of Place.

Ask for More Arts is all over Jackson Public Schools. Visit any one of the schools to see what a difference Ask for More Arts can make.

Ask for More Arts is a parnership of several orgnizations within and outside Jackson.  Without our partners Ask for More Arts would not reach as far.