Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program

Tag: Kirsten Schiel

  • Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

    Schools all over Utah celebrated the birthday of the colorful and quirky Dr. Seuss. See how some of our BTSALP schools celebrated!

    Carl Sandburg Elementary School in Granite School District threw quite the party for Dr. Seuss’s birthday! decorations, books, cake and . . . . costumes! Let’s get this party started!!!!

    Kirsten Schiel, BTSALP Visual Art specialist at Taylorsville Elementary School, Granite School District went “all in” and had each grade level do an integrated art lesson around – what else? – a Dr. Seuss book.

    Kindergarten: The Foot Book with ceramic feet. First Grade: My Many Colored Days and painted gingerbread people

    Second Grade: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish with ceramic fish. Third Grade: Green Eggs and Ham and illustrated rhyming sentences

    Fourth Grade: The Lorax and environmental painting. Fifth Grade: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! class mural

    Sixth Grade: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! with paper mache hot air balloons

  • BTSALP 2020 Legislative Luncheon

    An Appreciation Luncheon for Utah State Legislators was held at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Friday, January 31, 2020. It was a fabulous affair filled with Art, Dance and support for the BTSALP program.

    Art for Centerpieces and Program – Liberty Hills Elementary, Alpine District, Jen Terry

    “We Will Rock You!” presented by Herriman Elementary School, Jordan School District 4th Grade (Ms. Mumford,) Jana Shumway BTSALP Dance Specialist

    Gumball Machines: Study of Color Mixing – James Moss Elementary, Granite School District, Kirsten Schiel

    Sandhill Cranes in Utah Wetlands: Environmental Studies – Riley Elementary, Salt Lake City School District, Regina Stenberg

    Aspen Trees – Eastlake Elementary, Jordan School District, Jacquelin Webster

    Ladder to the Moon – Amelia Earhart Elementary, Provo School District, Amanda Elton

    Cubist Autumn Trees – Bennion Elementary, Salt Lake City School District, Paul Heath

    Utah Biomes Interactive Murals – Millcreek Elementary, Granite School District, Rachel Lankford

  • Mask Making – Part 2

    The plaster animal masks are finished and on display (Just in time for Art Night!) at Moss Elementary School in Granite School District. Kirsten Schiel, BTSALP Visual Art Specialist did a wonderful job of guiding the fifth grade students through the research, drawing and constructing phases of this integrated mask making project.

  • Mask Making – Part I

    Follow along as the fifth graders at Moss Elementary School in Granite School District make plaster casts of their own faces.

    Kirsten Schiel, BTSALP Visual Art Specialist at Moss demonstrates to parents, community volunteers, and University of Utah student helpers, the steps of mask making. After donning a paint shirt, (This process gets MESSY!) Vaseline is liberally applied all over the face. That includes eyebrows!

    Plaster strips – think the kind that are used if you break your arm – are cut, dipped in warm water and applied to the face. Start with the forehead, go down the cheeks, across the nose and right over closed lips! Two or three layers should do it!

    The plaster will harden quickly so work fast. When all the layers are in place, gently loosen the mask and it slides right off.

    The plaster masks of all 75 fifth graders will dry for a week. In the meantime students have chosen an animal and are researching, drawing, and coloring a template to follow as they turn their own faces into “animals.”