little miss: I am a very artistic person, and I always wished that my high school had offered more in the way of art – but I don’t think what you are describing would be a good idea. Extensively hands-on teaching works for pre-school classes, because the ideas being transmitted are simple and generally easily represented with pictures, etc. In higher grades, the ideas can be much more complex and abstract, and needs to be taught in a formal, straightforward fashion.
However, artistic ability lets you harness another powerful learning tool – visual processing. In school, I always took notes in a very visually structured format, and used diagrams instead of words whenever I could. This was actually crucial for me, because I always found that I could only really understand a concept when I could mentally visualize its structure. I feel that this is the best avenue toward harnessing each student’s individual talents – not trying to transplant them into the classroom, but trying to configure them so as to best adapt to mainstream higher level teaching (lecture/dictation).