The Arts-Threaded Curriculum is a hallmark of Dublin School. It weaves the arts into every course in the Dublin curriculum, asking each student to create a tapestry of learning. It requires students to dye their learnings in the colors of personal meaning, to create a variety of patterns, and to give them form in different compositions. As students weave arts into learning, their education is tied to their deeper growth as humans, and becomes a beautiful garment they wear with pride.

Arts are used in Dublin’s courses in multiple ways. Students might study objects of art to better understand and connect with the subject: Greek urns reveal aspects of ancient Greek society that one might not otherwise capture. The Mandelbrot series shows mathematics inherent in the beautiful structures in nature. Using arts improves understanding and retention of material: acting out or singing a conjugation will make it easier to remember. Art can also be used as a tool to encourage reflection: portraying an understanding in a poem or an original composition requires a deeper connection to an idea. Arts encourage students to express aspects of their being which might not be portrayed in an essay, and thus foster fuller investment in learning and healthier growth. Students have created paintings of a personal mandala in studying Buddhism, and burned them, so as not to become too connected to material forms. They have created films on a theme related to evolution for a biology class, and they have made posters to illustrate a lie in U. S. history. Students have performed their own slam poetry in morning meeting, and enacted an Enlightenment salon, and displayed a statistical analysis in a set of graphs. They have composed songs about marine vertebrates, and written stories from the point of view of a water droplet in the water cycle. They have created paintings and "found art" in language classes. Dublin School encourages teachers and students to use a variety of media to deepen learning, and this makes education at Dublin vivid and vibrant.

Thus, the arts-threaded curriculum represents a set of tools by which we achieve our mission of recognizing each student’s full potential, of encouraging all students to use multiple learning styles, and of respecting each other, the process of learning, and the community. The arts also give Dublin students ways to seek truth, and to act with courage. As students weave the tapestries of their education through the arts-threaded curriculum, they become more skillful, more versatile, and more deeply involved in learning.