Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program

Tag: Murals

  • 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

  • Murray Mural Project Part 1

    The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah, the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program (BTSALP) and Murray City have created an opportunity for University of Utah undergraduate art majors, graduate art majors, BTSALP Visual Art specialists and elementary students to collaboratively paint nine socially engaged, portable murals in  the elementary schools within the Murray City boundaries.

    The murals will be unveiled by Murray youth at their annual “Murray Fun Days Parade,” July 2019. The murals will then be permanently displayed at various schools in the district. Each mural will have a theme developed collaboratively specific to the location and activities of the nine local elementary schools.

    Get excited for the first installment of the … Murray Mural Project!!!

    First day of class

    • Art 4185 Urban Artworks 
      Professor Kim Martinez 
    • Students learn about traditions, materials and methods of mural making.

    Field Trippin’ to the Murray Museum 

    • Preliminary information is gathered
    • BTSALP Visual Art specialists

    Work With Kids Begins 

    • What makes your school special?  What do you like about living in Murray City? Students write and draw. 
    • Groups of elementary students work with a mentor.

    Drawings are scanned and the combining of drawings and ideas begins!

    Coordinating Eyewear!