ArtsBusXpress provides the needed transportation so students can have a culturally enriching experience as an extension of their school programs. Linking students and the arts community. ArtsBusXpress provides the missing link in a two-way street, connecting students with visual and performing arts venues throughout our region.

Over 174 arts organizations provide free or discounted entry to their venues. Teachers are required to include culturally-relevant fieldtrips as part of the school experience. School buses sit idle on school parking lots between noon and 3 pm for lack of a few dollars per student to fund the transportation to the cultural art venue. ArtsBusXpress provides that needed funding through bus grants to teachers. Each donation aids in sending students on "A Ride to the Arts!"

Since its inception in 2002, ArtsBusXpress has underwritten buses to send more than 100,000 children on "A Ride to the Arts", expanding classroom resources with arts-rich learning opportunities in music, theatre, dance, art museums, science, and technology.

These students at Ericson Elementary School in Mira Mesa are getting on a bus
provided by ArtsBusXpress to go to Balboa Park for the San
Diego Junior Theatre performance of JUNIE B. JONES.