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Art Nights, Musical Performances, Theater Productions are what make Springtime in BTSALP schools the best time of the school year! Join the celebration by reading our current newsletter.
North Elementary in Iron County, a STEM Partner school with Southern Utah University, held their STEAM Night highlighting Math and Science integration. BTSALP Visual Arts Specialist: Lori Wrankle.
Lomond View Elementary, Weber School District, BTSALP Visual Arts Specialist: Mendy Reese
North Ogden Elementary, Weber School District, BTSALP Visual Arts Specialist: Alisa Webb
Ogden School District Elementary Arts Festival
Artwork from James Madison and Horace Mann, BTSALP Visual
Arts Specialist: Brent Rhodes and Lincoln, Polk, and Hillcrest,
BTSALP Visual Arts Specialist: Stephanie Jaden
Hooper Elementary, Weber School District, BTSALP Visual Arts Specialist: Alisa Webb
Springtime in BTSALP Schools = Art Nights, Musical Performances, Theater Productions
You won’t believe what the BTBALP students and specialists in the Weber State University region have been up to! Click here to see excellent arts integration in action!
GreenWood Charter School
Community Mural with Second Grade
Lydia Stewart, Visual Art Specialist
The second graders at GreenWood Charter had an expedition where they painted a mural along the Ogden River Trail.
To prepare, they took a close look at the artist James Rizzi and created a rough draft of the mural on paper, which was posted in the school. They used the paper mural as a template for the design of their final product
North Ogden & Hooper Elementary Schools
Alisa Webb, Visual Arts Specialist
Landforms and a large “selfie wall”
Shadow Valley Elementary
Leslie Ireland, Drama Specialist
The 6th grade classes combined to perform “Foundations,” a musical about Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Medieval Times
T.O. Smith Elementary
Cassie Burton, Drama Specialist
T.O. Smith is a new school to the BTSALP program and worked with Cassie Burton for the first half of the school year. The after school drama club performed Charlotte’s Web for the school and parents.
James Madison & Horace Mann Elementary Schools
Brent Rhodes, Visual Arts Specialist
Brent traditionally has his first grade students create portraits of the teachers using their yearbook photos. These portraits are posted in the hallway, near the teacher’s door, during parent/teacher conferences and throughout the year
Syracuse Arts Academy
Antelope Campus Charter School
Kristy Tubbs, Visual Arts Specialist
First grade students completed their Winter Cardinals by adding snow using white paint and glue and shaving cream, which created a 3D effect.
Lomond View Elementary School
Mendy Reese, Visual Arts Specialist
Students created patterns on teepees with watercolors and painted them using warm colors. The warm colors gave the illusion that there was a fire inside. Students also created landscapes using crayon resist, watercolors, and salt. The final step was adding the teepees to the landscapes.
Students in BTSALP schools all over the state have been busy connecting curriculum to all four art forms. Click here to see our amazing students drawing, dancing, singing and acting in this month’s newsletter.
Wayne Geary, Visual Art Specialist at Rose Park Elementary School, and Louise Fischman, artist and therapeutic art educator, spent the summer of 2017 exploring and absorbing the culture and art of the Canadian First Nations along the Northwest coast of Canada. This trip was like a “master class” in the design process of totem poles and their meanings.
Wayne and Louise collaborated with Robin Raine, school counselor, to develop a long term unit of study based on Wayne and Louise’s trip. 5th and 6th grade students reflected on their self-identities, families and ancestry. Students discussed the personality traits of animals and found their power animal – an animal that represented them. They created personalized totem poles in the spirit of native people.
The 2nd graders designed mandala shields that reflected their identities. They used a variety of textile designs from different cultures, as well as power animals. They wrote stories on the back about what their shields meant to them and presented to their classmates.
Hip Hop Strategies and Activities for the Classroom and Stage Presented by Paige Hernandez
Paige Hernandez is a multidisciplinary artist who is critically acclaimed as a performer, director, choreographer and playwright. As an AEA equity actress, Paige has performed on many stages throughout the country. As a playwright, Paige has been commissioned by the National New Play Network, the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theatre, The Kennedy Center and the Glimmerglass Festival. She recently received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council as well as two Helen Hayes nominations for choreography and performance. Paige has also been named a “classroom hero” by The Huffington Post, a “Citizen Artist Fellow” with the Kennedy Center and one of “Six Theatre Workers You Should Know” by American Theatre Magazine. With her company B-FLY ENTERTAINMENT, Paige continues to develop and tour original work internationally. www.paigehernandez.com
Students from Salt Lake City and Granite School Districts, as well as their teachers and BTSALP specialists explored innovative hip hop teaching methods, activities, and how these exercises enhance other areas of the core curriculum. The workshop demonstrated how each hip hop element (Emcee, DJ, Graffiti and B-boy) could easily be transformed into creative exercises in the classroom or performance pieces.
Third Grade Students at Uintah Elementary School in Salt Lake City School District present
101 DALMATIANS
under the direction of BTSALP Drama Specialist, Rebecca Hess
It’s time to celebrate – the arts in Utah and the Winter Olympic games. See BTSALP students perform Hamilton: The Making of a Patriot at the Utah State Capitol during Arts Day on the Hill. Do you know what an armature is? Fourth Grade students at South Summit Elementary School do! Learn all about their artistic process and check out their sculptures depicting Olympic sports. Read all this and more in the current newsletter.
Click here to see videos on our Facebook page of Summit Academy Bluffdale’s performance of Hamilton: The Making of a Patriot.
The 2018 Utah Legislative session is up and running and so far the support for the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program is incredible. February 5th was the annual Arts Day on the Hill where Utah arts advocates met with legislators at the state capitol to share all the amazing arts programming around the state. Performance and Visual Arts added to the day that was all about ART!
A Musical Play Written by Stephanie Skolmoski
Performed by 5th and 6th grade students from Summit Academy Bluffdale
Directed by BTSALP Drama Specialist Trisha Bowen
American History is part of the fifth grade curriculum. Lin-Manuel Miranda has created quite an interest throughout America with his musical Hamilton. How wonderful it is to stir up a desire to learn more about the history of America. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s unique style – using hip-hop and rapping – in a setting of over 200 years ago has truly made history come alive and appeal to all ages.
During this performance, we can see a glimpse of Hamilton’s life – how it began and the legacy he left, the world he lived in and the groundwork that he helped create for this new nation. The students were able to perform the main song for Speaker of the House, Greg Hughes, in his office at the capitol.
This original musical was written by Stephanie Skolmoski so grade school students can learn more about Alexander Hamilton and the history he was apart of. No single historical figure was perfect, but the foundations that they helped lay for us, today, are remarkable.
Want to perform this play, need help or have questions? Email Stephanie at contactus@stephanieskolmoski.com.
in the style of Alberto Giacometti
BTSALP Visual Art Specialist: Kathleen Briley
Proportions:
Redraw:
Taping:
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Thank you to our Utah State legislators for their continued support of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program. Read all about the opera, Lost on Skull Island, and integrated visual art on display at the 2018 legislative luncheon. Click here.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 | 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Fourth grade students from Iron Springs Elementary School in Cedar City, Utah left home at 6:00 am to perform Lost On Skull Island, an opera written and produced by the students themselves. There were even parts written especially for their classroom teacher and the principal of Iron Springs.
UTAH’S NATIVE ANIMALS POP!
Lewiston Elementary | Arts Specialist: Mandi Sigg
Fourth graders exhibiting learned facts about native animals of Utah and their habitats.
MOON PHASE RELIEF SCULPTURE
Bear River Charter School | Arts Specialist: Brooke Lambert
Sixth graders created beautiful foil relief sculptures displaying their knowledge of phases of the moon.
OWLS
Franklin Elementary | Arts Specialist: Jennifer Schiel
Art Concepts: Collage, Line, Shape, Color
