We build art partnerships in schools and community spaces. We work with teachers, teaching artists, artists, and anyone passionate about creative learning.

Our offerings include:

Youth & Schools Multidisciplinary Projects

The Painted Cloud creates, devises, and leads arts experiences across multiple disciplines.

  • Visual Arts

  • Music (Song)

  • Moving Image/Film (Video)

Each project is :

  • scaleable and customized to meet the unique needs of each school & entity.

  • includes specified age groups, educational priorities, and artistic approaches.

  • mapped to meet a range time commitments in response to schedule and budget.

It’s ok for the initial brainstorm if every aspect of a project vision is not set.
When we form a project with a school, we start with brass tacks.
Schools & Entities are invited to look at the ‘menu’ of options as a jumping off point to begin a potential partnership!

Professional Development & Coaching

We build on educators' and teaching artists' strengths by introducing creative strategies that broaden and invigorate their teaching.

Professional Development & Coaching

We empower educators and teaching artists by:

  • Providing workshops on culturally responsive and liberatory arts education

  • Offering in-class modeling and coaching for effective arts integration

  • Facilitating curriculum planning that aligns artistic experiences with academic goals

  • Equipping educators with practical techniques for integrating arts across subjects

Our experience includes designing arts education courses at the University of Alaska, facilitating teacher training through the Alaska Arts Education Consortium's Summer Basic Arts Institutes, leading teaching artist training for recent graduates and undergraduates from institutions like Fordham, Bennington College, and NYU, and developing professional development programs for the NYC Department of Education's Arts for Multilingual Learners Grant.

Teaching & Training Teaching Artists

We support teaching artists in building capacity for meaningful arts education through targeted professional development:

For Teaching Artists:

  • Lesson planning and curriculum development for educational settings

  • Building classroom management skills specific to arts instruction

  • Strategies for working effectively within school environments

  • Mentorship for beginning teaching artists transitioning into educational roles

Workshops & Projects

Family Engagement /Community Workshops + Community Projects

We create collaborative art experiences that range from single-session workshops to extended community projects.

Our workshops and projects are deeply responsive to each community's priorities and interests. We've created workshops and projects exploring countless themes — from centering culture and identity to diving deep into scientific inquiry to celebrating place-based connections — all emerging from listening to what matters most to the communities we collaborate with.
Browse our workshop frameworks and past projects to spark ideas for a collaboration with your school or community entity.

In schools, we facilitate family engagement workshops that bring parents and children together for creative exploration.
In community spaces like gardens, shelters, libraries, and public plazas, we lead workshops that respond to who's present and what the moment calls for—sometimes quiet and reflective, sometimes loud and playful.

Using tools from drawing and digital storytelling to green screen technology and collaborative murals, we blend everyday materials with traditional art supplies, creating accessible entry points that welcome all skill levels and honor participants' cultural traditions. We center experimentation and discovery, valuing process over product while creating tangible artifacts and digital archives that extend the experience beyond our time together.

For deeper community investment, our extended projects unfold over months: public mural series, community podcasts, permanent neighborhood installations. Whether it's a one-time family painting workshop, a multi-week community art series, or a months-long collaborative project, each experience centers participant voice and scales to your timeline, budget, and vision.

For extended school-based work, see our [
Youth & Schools Projects].

Curriculum Design & Integration

Our curriculum approach bridges structured skill-building with open-ended exploration, emphasizing tools, vocabulary, and meaningful context for K–12 students. Each curriculum we design reflects our belief that technical skills flourish when students feel personally connected to their creative work and can relate it to their own experiences. Additionally, we partner with schools and organizations to co-develop curriculum that is responsive to the unique needs of each community. Our curriculum work includes:

Arts Integration
& STEAM Learning

Connecting science, tech, engineering, arts, and math to spark curiosity & innovation.

Digital Arts
& Media Literacy

Integrating animation, podcasting, video, and
digital storytelling to build 21st-century skills.

Place-Based
& Experiential Projects

Grounding learning in
local environments, communities, and lived experience.

Youth Leadership
& Voice

Empowering young
people as artists,
designers, researchers,
and co-creators.

Social Justice
& Storytelling

Exploring art as a tool
for advocacy, personal narrative, and community truth-telling.

Arts as Curriculum
& Creative Practice

Deepening artistic practice through visual arts, movement, theater, and multimedia work.

Inclusive & Trauma-Informed Practice

Honoring diverse learning needs through SEL,
restorative arts,
and universal design.

Culturally Responsive Curriculum

Rooted in identity, heritage, and equity — building understanding through diverse perspectives.

Environmental & Civic Engagement

Centering sustainability,
public space,
and youth-led
community impact.

Multilingual Learners
& Language Justice

Supporting ELLs and MLLs through arts-integrated, translanguaging, & bilingual approaches.

Our Partners

The Painted Cloud has collaborated and partnered with the following schools and community entities:: 

  • Parsons New School Pre-College - NY, NY 

  • Lower Kuskokwim School District (curriculum design) - Bethel, AK

  • Aware Women’s Shelter - Juneau, AK

  • Zach Gordon Youth Center - Juneau, AK

  • Art Shops - Juneau Economic Development Council 

  • Juneau Folk Festival - AK

  • Alaska Arts Education Consortium - Sikta, AK

  • Nalerigu Public Health, Ghana

  • 61 Franklin St. Community Garden - Brooklyn, NY

  • KTOO Public Radio - Juneau, AK

  • A. Philip Randolph High School - Harlem, NY

  • Thunder Mountain High School - Juneau, NY

  • Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi High School - Juneau, NY

  • Klukwan K-12 School - Klukwan, AK

  • Gustavus K-12 Schoool - Gustavus, AK

  • White Mountain K-12 School - White Mountain, AK

  • Akiuk Memorial K-12 School - Kasigluk, AK

  • Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School - Juneau, NY

  • Anvil City Science Academy 5th-8th grade - Nome, AK

  • Harborview Elementary School - Juneau, NY

  • Mendenhall River Community School - Juneau, NY

  • Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School - Brooklyn, NY

  • PS110 The Monitor School - Brooklyn, NY

  • PS 18 Multilingual School for Leadership - Brooklyn, NY

  • PS 939 The Sunset School of Cultural Learning - Brooklyn, NY

  • PS 319 Elementary - Brooklyn, NY

  • Juneau Community Charter School - Juneau, AK

  • Auke Bay Elementary School  - Juneau, AK

  • Sayéik: Gastineau Community School  - Juneau, AK