Whitehorse High School Montezuma Creek, UT Contact Person: Carrie Trenholm trenholm@emeriti.suu.edu https://www.trenholmglass.com/ This past July, teachers gathered for a two and a half day fused glass workshop. Under the supervision of Carrie Trenholm teachers learned fussed glass skills they could carry into their classrooms. In the workshop teachers created fish, robots and self portraits. They used materials like frit, stringer, …
Art in Motion
Art in Motion Utah Arts Festival Teacher Workshop Contact Person: Alisa Petersen alisapetersen@suu.edu https://spark.adobe.com/video/mDyZGxa2Gzn47 In partnership with the Utah Arts Festival and the Salt Lake City Public Library, the Arts Education Program offered a professional development workshop for K – 12 Utah teachers. This workshop, “Art in Motion”, explored connections between art and engineering. Projects integrated simple machines, multi-media collage, …
Rees Elementary School
Watch us SOAR! Rees Elementary School Spanish Fork, UT Contact Person: Adam Gull adam.gull@nebo.edu For two weeks at Rees Elementary School students were immersed in a “Watch us SOAR!” arts workshop. SOAR is a new initiate at Rees Elementary to encourage children to Serve and Support, Own their Actions, Aim High and Achieve and Respect. Six-hundred elementary students picked between …
Mountain View Elementary School
The Power of Yet! Mountain View Elementary School Salt Lake City, UT Contact Person: Tina Misaka tina.misaka@slcschools.org https://www.baddogarts.org/ At Mountain View Elementary School, over 320 youth engaged in a year long initiative to improve their risk taking abilities and self confidence through art. Students learned “The Power of the Word Yet,” phrase to encourage a persistent work ethic. Bad Dog …
Utah Day of Dance
Dance and the Child International, daCi Provo, UT Contact Person: Chris Roberts Chrisr@provo.edu https://daciusa.org/ In November of 2018, 145 children and over 60 adults gathered for the ninth annual Utah Day of Dance festivities in Provo, UT. The event cultivated creativity for a community of people ranging from ages one to 72. It was a full day workshop with dance …
Whitehorse High School
Whitehorse High School & Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project Montezuma Creek, UT Contact Person: Clare Flute Clareflute@verizon.net Native American Composers Apprentice Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0U_C2iKIGY In partnership with the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project, four students from Whitehorse High School in Montezuma Creek, UT were given the opportunity to work with two classical music composers. Over four days students participated in music workshops …