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Get the best of both worlds—structure and flexibility!

NEW! Curricula

FLEX’s newest district-only feature offers pre-built K-12 visual arts units—ready to customize for your students.

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Screen grab of FLEX Curricula library showing Curricula for Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and High School Intro to Art, Drawing I, Drawing II, Painting I, Painting II, Sculpture I, and Sculpture II
Screen grab of FLEX Curricula library showing Curricula for Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and High School Intro to Art, Drawing I, Drawing II, Painting I, Painting II, Sculpture I, and Sculpture II

Artist Bios

Biographies to help students connect with a diverse set of historical, contemporary, and living artists.

Yayoi Kusama

Zaha Hadid

Kara Walker

Jacob Lawrence

Hokusai

Barbara Hepworth

Lesson Plans

Engaging step-by-step lessons complete with key objectives, teaching strategies, material lists, and more.

LINES AND SHAPES OF UNITY

PINCHED PATTERNS IN NATURE

VISUAL STORYTELLING

WE GO TOGETHER

Pop Art Selfies

POP ART SELFIES

ARTIST STATEMENT STOP-MOTION

Do You See What I see

DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?


Resources

Premium student-facing worksheets, reference materials, anchor charts, lists, planning sheets, and more.

Videos

Ad-free videos capture student attention and scaffold learning around critical art concepts.

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What Is Abstract Expressionism?

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Seascape Drawing

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What Are Fiber Arts?

Assessments

Targeted and open-ended assessments, including formative, summative, reflections, critiques, and more.

COLLECTIONS

Resources Are Organized Into Thematic Collections

FLEX Collections are a great way to discover curriculum materials that work well together.

Exploring Abstract Expressionism

  • 6 Lesson Plans
  • 39 Resources
  • 9 Videos
  • 6 Assessments

Help students interpret their feelings with mark making and emotion as they explore the movement and genre of abstract expressionism.

Line in Everyday Life

  • 6 Lesson Plans
  • 27 Resources
  • 6 Videos
  • 6 Assessments

Illustrate the importance of lines, a core element of design and an essential part of many art forms across mediums.
Includes resources describing types of lines.

Empowering Identity in Art

  • 6 Lesson Plans
  • 55 Resources
  • 1 Video
  • 5 Assessments

Show students how an artist’s identity can influence their artwork and how they can apply that learning to express their personal identity.

LATEST RELEASE

What’s New in FLEX

FLEX Curricula

Curricula: Complete K-12 Coverage for Districts

K-8 teachers gain access to grade-level curricula for year-long instruction; high school teachers use media-based curricula for full-course content.

Expanded Painting Content for High School

Discover 2 new advanced painting lessons, 10 new resources, and 100+ updates, including essential questions, differentiation strategies, enhanced visuals, and video connections.

Enhanced K-5 Content

Explore newly updated lessons with essential questions, differentiation options, and improved visuals to engage your students and support their learning.

Bookmarking & My Library

Save your favorite FLEX content in one click with the new Bookmarking tool. My Library keeps your bookmarked lessons and customized classes organized for easy access anytime.

Enhanced Search Experience

Enjoy improved search, browse, and filter functions to easily discover inspiration and specific content types.

Simplified Grade Level Filters

Quickly find the right content with new grade level filters for all Collections, Lessons, Resources, Assessments, and Videos.

Fresh Content for High School Drawing Classes

Access new and updated drawing lessons for high school, complete with essential questions, differentiation tips, and linked videos.

3 New K-1 Collections

We’ve expanded our K–1 curriculum with engaging, short, K–1 instructional materials.

6 New Front-of-Classroom Videos

Discover new front-of-classroom videos for grades K-1 to demonstrate techniques, facilitate hands-on learning, and engage learners.

AOEU Integration with Clever

Teachers and districts that use Clever can now find The Art of Education University in the Clever library. Log in with your Clever credentials for seamless access to your AOEU offerings.

5 NEW Collections

Explore the newest FLEX Collections with resources designed at 3 levels making it easy to adapt to student needs, further supporting ready-to-go instruction, and job-embedded instructional support.

Latest FLEX Release Notes

Check out all of the newest content in our latest FLEX release.

Media Process Skills Resources

Utilize these new scaffolding resources to assess student media process skills, provide targeted instruction, and foster student growth.

New FLEX Teacher’s Edition

The redesigned FLEX Teacher’s Edition is organized into easily accessible sections for faster access to the support you deserve.

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ARTS STANDARDS

Standards-aligned for all 50 states and the National Core Arts Standards

Testimonials

Teachers Flex

Jamey Williams

Art Teacher Aldine Independent TX

FLEX has become an indispensable tool in my daily teaching routine. Whether I need simple handouts or comprehensive lesson plans, FLEX has it all. Its extensive library supports and enriches every medium I teach, offering a plethora of resources from vocabulary aids to engaging warm-up activities. Utilizing their complete lesson plans has certainly lightened my workload.

Erika Chapman

VAPA Arts Coordinator Manteca CA

With FLEX, the lesson format and materials have made it super easy to refresh our curriculum, which keeps art teachers engaged. If art teachers are bored, students are bored.

Julie Levesque

Visual Arts Coordinator Pinellas County School District FL

“The big difference with the FLEX Curriculum is the quality of the lessons. Our district is very studio based. It’s all about projects and hands-on learning. It’s doing, creating, making—it’s a very artistic mindset type of learning. These FLEX lessons really lend themselves to what we’re trying to do, and we feel that it really helps our new art teachers.”