The impact of the arts on students is long-lasting and comprehensive. Through Omaha Performing Arts' education and community involvement programs, we make sure critical thinking, innovation, and hands-on education take center stage. We give students inspiring firsthand encounters with artists and present important lessons from the curriculum in a fresh, dazzling, and immediate way.


Did you know?

• The arts enhance the process of learning - nourishing such systems as integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities.
• Arts-involved students outscore their non-arts-involved peers by up to 30 points on the Verbal Mean and Math Mean portions of the SATs.
• More than 65 distinct relationships between the arts and academic/social outcomes have been documented, including such associations as dramatic enactment and conflict resolution skills, and traditional dance and non-verbal reasoning.

Boost your students' cognitive skills and let them see history, science, physical education, engineering, literature, and more in action - right here in your community!

Learn more about Omaha Performing Arts' dynamic education and community involvement programs using the links at the left.
Find out about the Omaha Performing Arts Student Rush Club here!

*Sources: The College Board, Eric Jensen's Arts with the Brain in Mind, The National Assembly for State Arts Agencies' Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement, The Wittenberg Journal of Education.