Evenings for Educators: Digital Library
Here you can access recordings of past Evenings for Educators.
Registration and relicensure points for these courses are now closed but you are welcome to view and use the videos and resources provided.
2021-2022:
Where are YOU from? Using Art to Celebrate Your Unique Students
Springville Museum of Art
Join us for this Evening during National Welcoming Week! In connection with the book, Where are you from? by Yamile Saied Méndez, educators will learn comfortable tools to celebrate race and immigration in the classroom through themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home. Join presenters: Jean Tokuda Irwin, Noemi Hernández-Balcázar, and Angela Rosales Challis to explore collage and animation through hands-on workshops that will help you celebrate the unique and authentic stories of all your students.
Lesson Plan- "Animating your Perception" (by Angela Rosales Challis)
Slideshow Presentation of "Animating your Perception"
Lesson Plan- "Branches of Your Identity" (by Noemi Hernandez-Balcazar)
Slideshow Presentation of "Branches of Your Identity"
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Exploring Extra-Ordinary Creations of Vik Muniz
BYU Museum of Art
We will visit the new exhibition, Vik Muniz: Extra-Ordinary, following which participants will explore the unique possibilities of making art out of ordinary materials.
Presentation of "Earth to Vik"
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Humor & Observation Using Art
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (USU)
Utilizing select artworks on view at the museum by artist Jean Lowe, educators will first explore how this artist incorporates observation, critique, and humor in her artworks about what we see and experience around us as Americans. Our teaching artists, Michael Bingham and Natalie Nish, will lead you through easy hands-on 3D activities to create sculptures that use humor while critiquing things they consider to be “American.” The exercises will provide opportunities for discussion about material culture, history, place, region, and pop culture.
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Reflections on Culture, Identity, and Self-Expression in Art
Museum at Union Station
Join us at MUS to view our latest exhibition, Finding Me: The Power of Art in Finding Identity and Self-Expression, featuring works by Diné artists, Nathan and Steve Harrison of Utah. We will tie in Utah’s rich history and discuss the role of observation, interaction, and preservation when in dialogue with identity through art. Educators will be able to ask the artists questions and will leave this Evening with lesson ideas on how to use self-expression to connect culture, heritage, and identity.
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Earth Art: Learning about Nature and the Climate Crisis through Art
Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUU)
Join us at SUMA to view our latest exhibition, This Earth, and connect nature, the environment, and climate to art making. Featuring works by artists at the Montello Foundation in Nevada, we will discuss the role of observation, interaction, and preservation when in dialogue with nature through art. We will also tie in Utah’s rich history of Land Art in comparison to the works on display. Educators will leave this Evening with ideas on how to connect the environment around them and the current climate crisis into their lessons.
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Your Wide-Awake Classroom: Teaching Brave, Empathetic, Lifelong Learners
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Join us in downtown Salt Lake City to view UMOCA’s newest exhibition, For Freedoms, and learn how you can teach creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action through art. This vibrant and timely show serves as a creative catalyst for arts educators, who will participate in four different break out groups: elementary, middle school, high school, and special education. Revitalize your classroom participation and unity and be prepared to see your student body transform into wide-awake classrooms!
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Growing a Garden of Art: Integrating Visual Arts with Music, Dance, and Poetry
DSU / Sears Art Museum
“If science, technology, engineering, and math are the STEM—then cultural arts are the FLOWERS.” -Kathy C. Cieslewicz
Join us for light refreshments, networking, and hands-on workshops that integrate performing arts and visual arts. Let’s teach how art moves us, how art makes us sing, and how art is poetry.
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Reflections on Empathy for the K-12 Classroom
Weber State University Arts Learning Collaborative
In connection with the exhibition, All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, participants will look at how they can foster empathy and understanding through the power of art in the classroom. This in-person event will include a tour of the Shaw Gallery introducing the exhibition. Following the tour, participate in hands-on workshops that show how the visual arts can shape learning in the classroom.
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Stitching Together Subjects with the Arts
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Come together with fellow educators to explore arts integration for the classroom! Inspired by our special exhibition, Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts, educators will participate in a tour and other workshops to think about creative ways to engage students. Much like the quilting process itself, stitching together pieces to create a cohesive whole, curriculum in classes can use art with other subjects to provide multiple entry points and opportunities for understanding.
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From Student to Studio: The Evolution of a Professional Artist
Springville Museum of Art
This year we are celebrating the 50th year of the Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show! In connection with our exhibition, From Student to Studio, join us for a panel discussion and Q&A featuring arts professionals from the exhibition who once exhibited in the high school show as students. They will share their journey from student to professional and answer questions. Following the discussion, learn from these artists in hands-on workshops as they share art techniques and ideas you can use to inspire your students of all ages.
Evening Resources - Lesson Plans, presentations, and Zoom recordings
2020-2021:
In Sight, Out of Mind: Environmental Awareness in Art
Hosted by Springville Museum of Art | March 24, 2021
Celebrating a Diversity of Student Voices
Hosted by Utah Museum of Fine Arts | March 17, 2021
The Possibilities of Portraits: Art, Poetry and Personal Narrative through Portraiture
Hosted by Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art | January 27, 2021
Material Issues: Strategies in 21st-Century Craft
Hosted by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | January 13, 2021
Fostering Creativity and Ambition in Utah’s Classrooms
Hosted by Springville Museum of Art | September 16, 2020