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Meet the Masters offers interactive, multi-media art education that includes art lessons, hands-on learning, and scripted assemblies. Students complete step-by-step worksheets and art projects that involve drawing, painting, mixed media, and design, along with art appreciation, artist studies, and other creative, hands-on projects.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
Meet the Masters has provided interactive, multi-media art education to elementary school students worldwide for 40 years and has reached over 3 million students. The program began in 1985 when Bonnie Steele, a credentialed teacher and exhibited artist, started a volunteer art project in her daughter’s sixth-grade class. The curriculum is standards-based, VAPA standards-based, and Common Core aligned, and includes a complete K–8 program that covers kindergarten through 8th grade. It features scripted lessons that teachers and parents can teach, all materials included for K–8, culturally diverse art history with artists from 11 countries, and studies of 35 master artists from around the world. The program is used by over 1,000 schools and districts across all 50 states, offers MTM Distance Learning online lessons and an MTM Homeschool version, and is sold as a buy-once, use-forever program with no subscriptions, with professional art supplies available at bulk pricing, including oil pastels, foil, and clay. Meet the Masters partners with school districts, elementary, middle, private, Christian, Catholic, charter, magnet, and Title 1 schools. Its mission is to bring art history to life through interactive, multimedia lessons that students remember for decades and to give every student the chance to experience art at its best.
The leadership team includes founder Bonnie Steele, Sales Manager for Schools & Districts Sue McNair, Director of Service Schools Sonya Stone, and Finance contact Lisa Garcia. One teacher, Josh Barbera from Village Elementary School in Coronado, California, reports that teachers were able to implement the clearly written Meet the Masters lesson plan with ease, that second graders were actively engaged during the Picasso lesson, and that students created abstract art they shared with families at Open House and repeated the project the following year. Another teacher, Christine Gibson from Thrive Communities in Florida, states that she tells her students they are getting more art history than many university students, notes that they use terms like post Impressionism, realism, and complementary color palette in conversation, and describes the Georges Seurat pointillism project using sandpaper as the most popular so far.
Last updated June 27, 2026.
• Ages: 5–13 years old
Meet the Masters has provided interactive, multi-media art education to elementary school students worldwide for 40 years and has reached over 3 million students. The program began in 1985 when Bonnie Steele, a credentialed teacher and exhibited artist, started a volunteer art project in her daughter’s sixth-grade class. The curriculum is standards-based, VAPA standards-based, and Common Core aligned, and includes a complete K–8 program that covers kindergarten through 8th grade. It features scripted lessons that teachers and parents can teach, all materials included for K–8, culturally diverse art history with artists from 11 countries, and studies of 35 master artists from around the world. The program is used by over 1,000 schools and districts across all 50 states, offers MTM Distance Learning online lessons and an MTM Homeschool version, and is sold as a buy-once, use-forever program with no subscriptions, with professional art supplies available at bulk pricing, including oil pastels, foil, and clay. Meet the Masters partners with school districts, elementary, middle, private, Christian, Catholic, charter, magnet, and Title 1 schools. Its mission is to bring art history to life through interactive, multimedia lessons that students remember for decades and to give every student the chance to experience art at its best.
The leadership team includes founder Bonnie Steele, Sales Manager for Schools & Districts Sue McNair, Director of Service Schools Sonya Stone, and Finance contact Lisa Garcia. One teacher, Josh Barbera from Village Elementary School in Coronado, California, reports that teachers were able to implement the clearly written Meet the Masters lesson plan with ease, that second graders were actively engaged during the Picasso lesson, and that students created abstract art they shared with families at Open House and repeated the project the following year. Another teacher, Christine Gibson from Thrive Communities in Florida, states that she tells her students they are getting more art history than many university students, notes that they use terms like post Impressionism, realism, and complementary color palette in conversation, and describes the Georges Seurat pointillism project using sandpaper as the most popular so far.
Last updated June 27, 2026.
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