ARTaFACT Travelling Culture Kits are a long standing and wonderful resource for all educators whether grade school, middle school, high school, or college level. The Kits give educators the opportunity to bring different cultural programs into their classrooms.This resource is also available to businesses as an educational outreach to employees.

ARTaFACT Kits are a compilation of genuine art objects and cultural facts. Each Culture Kit comes with actual artifacts plus a cd, which includes a PowerPoint interactive learning experience, overhead transparencies and a notebook filled with lesson plans. Also included is additional information and websites for continued learning past the initial presentation. ARTaFACT Travelling Culture Kits are free of charge and are loaned for two week intervals.

Currently available programs are: Mexico and Central America, The Art and Culture of Japan, Michigan Past and Present, and the Art and Culture of Native Americans plus a special separate supplement on the Art of the People of the Three Fires (Michigan region Native Americans.)

To reserve a Culture Kit, visit the Art Center at 265 E. Emmett St., or call 269-962-9511.