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Artist as Role Model

Just as important as the skills you teach in the classroom, you are a model for students of what an artist is. Bear this in mind at all times, in the classroom and in the community.

As much as possible, share your own work with students, teachers, and community members. Ask for input about your works in progress. By sharing your work with students, you help them learn that feedback from others is part of the creative process, and that the perfection of technique is a lifelong learning experience. There is no better illustration of the principles you teach than your own work.

Populations with Special Needs

By federal law, individuals with special needs must not be excluded from residency activities if they are regularly a part of the classes that are designated as target and workshop groups. We are asked in our yearly evaluation reports to the NEA specifically what percentage of those individuals served are minority or at-risk populations.

Resources and training for artists and sponsors serving populations with special needs are available through Very Special Arts Utah.

Your Most Important Responsibility

Bear in mind that during the term of your residency you represent the Utah Arts Council, the Arts Education Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts. You may be the first and only such representative the sponsor and its community have ever encountered. Your behavior and attitudes may determine how the sponsor and the community view artists and the arts for the rest of their lives, especially if their experience with artists and the arts has been minimal.

AE occasionally encounters Utahns who have been permanently prejudiced against "Art" because of one unpleasant residency experience. Whether a sponsor ever again applies for an artist residency or an arts education project depends on you.