The Artist in Residence Studio program, or AIRS, is a Vancouver-based initiative for providing equitable access to high-quality and socially relevant visual arts education for children in schools.  AIRS is a program developed in partnership with the Vancouver School Board that seeks to create studio space within public elementary schools and to support local, professional artists to work in collaboration with teachers in the studio to create meaningful hands-on visual arts engagements for children across the whole school.