WELCOME TO
SUPER ART LEAGUE
CHILDREN'S ART ORGANIZATION
The Super Art League is a league of super Artists integrating visual art with performance art to empower youth through curiosity, creativity, and compassion.
Our Work with Columbus Kids
“Working with Super Art League is providing a unique opportunity for our students to engage in leadership and communication skills while also addressing literacy development,” said K. Schloenbach, Executive Director Special Education/Student Support Services.
“We are excited to partner with Super Art League and develop these innovative programs for our students to grow and develop through the performing and visual arts.”
2025 CCS School Year - Sensory Me
5-week Session; 6 Regions
January 27th through May 16th; over 500 Special Education and MD students created wonderful Art projects!
Sensory Me - Survey Results:
CCS Special Education Regions 1- 6 (2024/25 School Year)
Students:
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100% students had fun drawing and tracing
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95% students had fun creating and building art on the tray
Teachers:
How did the art making and social emotional learning activities help the students express themselves?
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Making the art caused my students to talk about their feelings and their art! I saw their creative juices increase and their social emotional learning skills increase in more positive interactions with each other.
- Linden McKinley -
The students in grades 2 through 5 with multiple disabilities truly enjoyed the hands-on art using monkey foam, magnetic tiles, and items for tracing shapes! My students love Mr. James because they would leave their seats in order to hug him. Also, they enjoyed showing Mr. James their 3-d art and drawings.
- Berwick Alternative -
I just wanted to send a quick email to say thank you so much for having Super Art League come to AIMS. My class has had an absolutely wonderful experience. Mr. James was amazing with our kids - he adapted, he engaged, he met them at their level! This was a fantastic program that I am so very grateful we got to be a part of. Thank you so much for including us and having this program available to our students.
- AIMS
We have heard nothing but positive feedback from our school personnel, they feel like this was a great experience for our students!!! - With teacher Mr. James!
Special Education Director
Office of Accelerated and Extended Learning
Columbus City Schools
2024 Summer Experience Bird's Eye View
Community Sculpture
350 students worked on a one-of-a-kind display of public art this summer for Columbus City Schools. Called the Bird's Eye View Sculpture, students designed and painted mini leaf shaped wooden pieces that eventually will become an 8' foot sculpture.
The art project is a partnership with the District’s Special Education Department and the Super Art League in Columbus, a group of artists whose mission is to integrate visual art with performance art to empower youth through curiosity, creativity, and compassion. “The sculpture supports the Summer Experience Program objectives of friendship, teamwork, community, and identity,” said James Kindler of the Super Art League.
Special Education Summer Experience Beehive
Community Sculpture
400 students worked on a one-of-a-kind display of public art this summer for Columbus City Schools. Called the Beehive Sculpture, special education students and students with complex needs designed and painted mini hexagonal, honeycomb-shaped wooden pieces that eventually will become an 8' foot sculpture.
Once completed, the sculpture will be known as the Beehive.
The Art project is a partnership with the District’s Special Education Department and the Super Art League in Columbus, a group of artists whose mission is to integrate visual art with performance art to empower youth through curiosity, creativity, and compassion. “The sculpture supports the Summer Experience Program objectives of friendship, teamwork, and community,” said Heidi Madsen of the Super Art League. “The sweetness is in the learning.”
Berwick Middle School
Global Empathy
Sculptures
Letter from Staff: "Good Afternoon, on behalf of the CCS Summer Experience team, I would like to send a sincere thank you for your partnership this summer. Your collaboration was crucial to provide interactive art experience for our students. We truly value all of the work that you have done this summer in support of CCS students. We loved the addition of visiting artists for our students at Berwick- the students and teachers really enjoyed this opportunity."
Berwick Middle School
Gallery Kids 5-week
classroom program
Our visiting Artists' strive to give children an interactive and engaging art experience that will inspire their creativity for years to come. Children who participate in our classes not only have fun, they also gain valuable skills in art and self-expression.
Medina Middle School
What's Your Super? 6-week classroom program
Through structured play, What’s Your Super? integrates visual art with performance art to build super personas. At the end of the course, we will showcase a 45-minute performance of the stories we co-create over 6 weeks. Each story is a celebration of what makes each of us super. We believe that celebrating what makes each of us super is a way to see and treat others as a super extension of ourselves.
Course Goals: Your super is something unique about yourself that you are proud of. The goals of the course are to build your super persona and share it with your community by:
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Designing a super logo (with cape), super mask and super sidekick puppet.
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Embodying your super persona through puppetry and improv.
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Storytelling based on the themes of Teamwork, Friendship and Community.
Berwick Middle School
What’s Your Steam Made of?
Super Social Network Trading Cards
A Community Art Experience to create individualized trading cards that share what skills participants have to offer and identify what skills they need help with to complete a common goal. During the Super Social Networking Event, students use the cards to self-organize to offer advice and solve challenges related to their common goal.
Professional Development Berwick Middle School
What’s Your Steam Made of?
Super Social Network Trading Cards
A Community Art Experience to create individualized trading cards that share which skills participants have to offer and identify which skills they need help with to complete a common goal. During the Super Social Networking Event, students use the cards to self-organize to offer advice and solve challenges related to their common goal.
Professional Development
General Education Art Pathways
Summer Experience 2022
Artist led Professional Development for teachers designed to amplify listening through creativity.
