Workshops

Arts Are Core offers year-round professional learning opportunities in arts integration for K-12 teachers, instructional coaches, arts educators, and USU students. Participants learn key skills, build networks with other educators, and develop techniques and strategies for successful arts integration in all subject areas.

Arts Are Core provides professional learning opportunities in arts education through a generous endowment from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation and a partnership with BTS Arts. Workshops are open to classroom teachers, arts educators, school administrators, university students, and community members. All workshops are available for relicensure points through MIDAS. 

 

Fall 2024

The Powerful Potential of Printmaking in Your Classroom!

October 23, 2024  |   4:30-6:00pm 

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Location: USU Logan Campus, Edith Bowen Laboratory School  
Presenter:
Liz Brown

Unlock the creative potential of your classroom with our hands-on printmaking workshop designed specifically for elementary educators! This engaging and informative workshop will equip you with the skills and techniques to integrate printmaking into your curriculum, fostering an appreciation for art and enhancing student learning across subjects. During this workshop you will develop printmaking skills, have the opportunity for hands-on experience, gain inspiration and ideas for ways to integrate printmaking in your curriculum, as well as receive practical advice on managing printmaking with elementary students. Join us for an afternoon of creativity, collaboration, and inspiration.

Storytelling: A Power Tool in K-6 Grade Classrooms

November 12, 2024   |   4:30-6:00pm 

Location: Online Workshop
Presenters:
Bobby and Sherry Norfolk

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A low-stress, high-octane introduction to the most useful, flexible, cost-effective arts integration skill in your toolbox! Master Storyteller Bobby Norfolk will kick off the session with a concert of global folktales, then we will explore the skills that he used to bring them life. In this online workshop, we'll explore the tools of a storyteller (voices, sound effects, movement, body language and imagination) and then take a quick dive into arts integration lesson plans for lower and upper elementary grades! Join us for a jam-packed, fast-paced 90 minutes!

 


Spring 2025

Evenings for Educators Workshop

A Sense of Home: The Murals and Art of Intermountain Intertribal Indian School

January 22, 2025  |   4:00-7:00pm 

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If you do not have a MIDAS account, you can email Elena Free, Efree@springville.org to register for the workshop. 


Location:
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, USU Logan Campus 
Presenters:
Lorina Antonio and Peggy Barker 

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University in partnership with Arts Are Core invite educators and the public to our Evening for Educators event celebrating Native American culture, history, and art.

This special evening begins with Darren Parry, a respected leader of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, who will open the event with a Native blessing. Terry Goedel (Yakama and Tuplaip tribes), a renowned hoop dancer, will perform and share how hoop dancing helped him connect with his cultural identity. Terry taught hoop dancing workshops at the Intermountain Intertribal Indian School. Peggy Barker and Lorina Antonio (Navajo/Diné), former teacher and student of the Intermountain Intertribal Indian School, will reflect on their experiences at the school. Harold Foster from the Utah State Board of Education will discuss the importance of Native American education today.

Exhibition name and description: Intermountain Intertribal Indian School, located in Brigham City, Utah, opened in 1950 as a boarding school for Navajo Nation students and later welcomed Native students from across the U.S. It closed in 1984. Its legacy lives on through restored murals, which are now on view in the Repainting the I: The Intermountain Intertribal Indian School Murals exhibition. Created by students, these vibrant murals reflect personal expressions of home and connect to our shared humanity.

As part of the event, participating educators will engage in hands-on activities, including poetry-writing and weaving workshops, designed to inspire classroom integration of these themes and traditions.

Join us as we explore the intersection of art, education, and cultural identity, honoring the voices and stories that continue to shape our understanding of home and belonging.

 

How to Integrate Music and Movement into Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies!

April 9, 2025 | 4:30-6:30pm 

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Location:
USU Logan Campus, Edith Bowen Laboratory School
Presenters: Sarah Inouye Mano & Mika Inouye

Learn strategies for incorporating music and movement in your classroom. Experience creative ways to inspire your students in any discipline using drama, music, literature, visual art and movement. Learn how to create structures (simple chants, songs or movement sequences) to reinforce and develop your curriculum, while appealing to all styles of learning. Reinforce the water cycle, remember a story, learn fractions through movement—and MORE!