Welcome Aboard
The Arts Bus!
Each year, we chart a course to:
Empower 1,500+ children in 20” Vermont communities
Make 150+ Bus Stops
Teach 250+ Classes in 20+ Mediums
Deliver 4,000+ Kits at 100+ Kit Stops to afterschool & summer camp programs
Collaborate with 5-7 Artist Educators
Rolling along since 2010, The Arts Bus is a traveling art and music studio, pop-up theatre, workshop, and maker space engaging children in the fun of creativity through free arts education. From the moment they come aboard the bus, children find inspiring, innovative activities prepared just for them!
One visit we’ll play with clay, another we’ll paint fabrics to wear. We’ll learn new music with instruments and sing thru sock puppets. We paint, perform, write, tell stories, clown around, enact drama and share ideas limited only by the boundless imaginations of our artists and the children themselves.
The Arts Bus journey is never-ending. We see an endless road of opportunity, where we literally are the vehicle for year-round art enrichment in routinized, accessible and affordable programs to nearly Vermont’s kids — particularly those at risk of never having being empowered by art.
The Arts Bus
EXPANDS!
In 2023, The Arts Bus added a huge vehicle for year-round programming in the form of the new MINIBUS! Thanks to a special purpose grant from Vermont Children’s Trust Foundation, the outstanding artwork of young artists across the state, and the super skills of Awesome Graphics, we are equipped to continue expanding weekly afterschool programs through any weather, traverse across the entire State of Vermont, and add team members with cargo capacity for even more exciting art forms and mediums!
A Never-Ending Road
to Artventure
With thousands of miles & children’s smiles in its journey, The Arts Bus has become a beloved fixture of Vermont’s creative enrichment for today and the future!
(you can glimpse into that future in this 2-min video)
This little bus dreams BIG,
like the kids on it!
We are excited about our growth trajectory and have a vision of statewide service with a larger team of enthusiastic art educators & encouragementors. The Arts Bus is steadily building momentum to charge into the future while diversifying revenue and seeking long-term support with a thoughtful plan on how to create a sustained statewide operation.
We hope our vision and mission inspires support
+ more mobile children’s programs nationwide
‘cuz that’s just how we roll.
You Can Pave the Way…
There is never a charge to come aboard The Arts Bus because this green & yellow bus funds its programming through grants, family foundations, program partners, town appropriations, sponsors, donors and fundraisers. If our mission and impact inspire you, we hope you’ll donate today.
We are grateful for your support!!
Mail to:
Arts Bus Inc
67 Main Street
Randolph, Vermont 05060