(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register in Section 20 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Tour UMOCA's exhibitions What Sustains and As the Lake Fades to better sustain our mental health, students' end-of-year stamina, and our planet. World-renowned artist and researcher Nina Elder helps us teach environmentalism with hope, creativity, and honesty.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 21 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Tour UMOCA's exhibitions What Sustains and As the Lake Fades to better sustain our mental health, students' end-of-year stamina, and our planet. World-renowned artist and researcher Nina Elder helps us teach environmentalism with hope, creativity, and honesty.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in-person register in Section 16 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

What have you inherited from family, community, land, or environment? Join the Springville Museum of Art as we explore the ideas of inheritance, lineage, and legacy with contemporary artists from the US, the UK, and Ireland. Through a keynote address and hands-on artmaking workshops, we'll become equipped to help Utah students connect with their own lineage and legacy.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 17 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

What have you inherited from family, community, land, or environment? Join the Springville Museum of Art as we explore the ideas of inheritance, lineage, and legacy with contemporary artists from the US, the UK, and Ireland. Through a keynote address and hands-on artmaking workshops, we'll become equipped to help Utah students connect with their own lineage and legacy.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON. No Zoom option is available for this Evening. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Join the StateWide Art Partnership for an evening of hands-on workshops and art-making demonstrations to kick off the 2024 UAEA Annual Conference in Moab. Learn from experienced teachers and artists while networking and socializing with arts educators from across the state.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in-person register in Section 14 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

A 4,000-year-old earthenware bowl. A mosaic head of Medusa weighing more than 100 pounds. A tenth-century container carved to include Islamic history. An eighteenth-century writing cabinet. A 100-year-oldoil painting from Spain. What do these objects all have in common? Whether ancient or modern, east or west of the Atlantic Ocean, each of these treasures comes from the Hispanic World. Come learn more about how objects like these can be creatively incorporated into teaching art and other core curriculum.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 15 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

A 4,000-year-old earthenware bowl. A mosaic head of Medusa weighing more than 100 pounds. A tenth-century container carved to include Islamic history. An eighteenth-century writing cabinet. A 100-year-oldoil painting from Spain. What do these objects all have in common? Whether ancient or modern, east or west of the Atlantic Ocean, each of these treasures comes from the Hispanic World. Come learn more about how objects like these can be creatively incorporated into teaching art and other core curriculum.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in-person register in Section 12 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

This year’s Evening for Educators is inspired by SUMA’s upcoming exhibition, Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx, which will feature noted aerial photographer David Maisel and multimedia duo Hylozoic/Desires to examine the past, present, and future of salt in our local landscape and global community. This event will include an overview of the exhibition by the curator, Dr. Becky Bloom, as well as interdisciplinary pitches about the environment. Elementary and secondary teachers will be invited to participate in hands-on projects that will explore art and science integration in preparation for the exhibition, which runs October 2024 through February 2025.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 13 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

This year’s Evening for Educators is inspired by SUMA’s upcoming exhibition, Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx, which will feature noted aerial photographer David Maisel and multimedia duo Hylozoic/Desires to examine the past, present, and future of salt in our local landscape and global community. This event will include an overview of the exhibition by the curator, Dr. Becky Bloom, as well as interdisciplinary pitches about the environment. Elementary and secondary teachers will be invited to participate in hands-on projects that will explore art and science integration in preparation for the exhibition, which runs October 2024 through February 2025.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 19 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Join us for an evening of site-specific art experiences where we will explore what ties us together - weaving materials through place, time, and memory. Inspired by the Gail Grinnell exhibit at the WSU Shaw Gallery, this FREE event will feature hands-on workshops providing K-12 educators with ideas and resources for collaborative art-making in their classrooms. This event is presented by the Weber State University Arts Learning Collaborative.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register in Section 18 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Join us for an evening of site-specific art experiences where we will explore what ties us together - weaving materials through place, time, and memory. Inspired by the Gail Grinnell exhibit at the WSU Shaw Gallery, this FREE event will feature hands-on workshops providing K-12 educators with ideas and resources for collaborative art-making in their classrooms. This event is presented by the Weber State University Arts Learning Collaborative.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register in Section 10 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

How do you define home? Is it a structure? A feeling? How do people throughout the world answer these questions? Join us at Utah Valley University’s Roots of Knowledge installation to examine different definitions of home via our stained-glass windows and hands-on art workshops. Learn how to use art making and other multimodal activities as entry points for students to explore their feelings about belonging, place, and community.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 11 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

How do you define home? Is it a structure? A feeling? How do people throughout the world answer these questions? Join us at Utah Valley University’s Roots of Knowledge installation to examine different definitions of home via our stained-glass windows and hands-on art workshops. Learn how to use art making and other multimodal activities as entry points for students to explore their feelings about belonging, place, and community.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register in Section 8 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Presenters Shannon Erickson and Chiara Sorensen
Fire as an omen, elemental force, metaphor, and searing personal experience – these are the subjects explored by the artists of Facing Fire in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art’s fall exhibition. The artists of Facing Fire bring us incendiary work from active fire lines and psychic burn zones. They face fire, sift its aftermath, and struggle with the implications. Use the imagery from fire to create poetry, meaning, and memory.

Teaching Artist John Westenskow
John graduated from USU with a Bachelor of Fine Art and Education, with an emphasis in ceramics. John taught art and ceramics in the Logan City School District for 36 years. Make a unique clay project with John that will fire up your artistic skills!

Credits
Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife, and the End of Nature in the New West has been curated by Douglas McCulloh and organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography. Artists include Noah Berger, Kevin Cooley, Josh Edelson, Samantha Fields, Jeff Frost, Luther Gerlach, Christian Houge, Richard Hutter, Anna Mayer, Stuart Palley, Norma I. Quintana, and Justin Sullivan.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register for Section 9 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at Efree@springville.org to register.)

Presenters Shannon Erickson and Chiara Sorensen
Fire as an omen, elemental force, metaphor, and searing personal experience – these are the subjects explored by the artists of Facing Fire in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art’s fall exhibition. The artists of Facing Fire bring us incendiary work from active fire lines and psychic burn zones. They face fire, sift its aftermath, and struggle with the implications. Use the imagery from fire to create poetry, meaning, and memory.

Teaching Artist John Westenskow
John graduated from USU with a Bachelor of Fine Art and Education, with an emphasis in ceramics. John taught art and ceramics in the Logan City School District for 36 years. Make a unique clay project with John that will fire up your artistic skills!

Credits
Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife, and the End of Nature in the New West has been curated by Douglas McCulloh and organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography. Artists include Noah Berger, Kevin Cooley, Josh Edelson, Samantha Fields, Jeff Frost, Luther Gerlach, Christian Houge, Richard Hutter, Anna Mayer, Stuart Palley, Norma I. Quintana, and Justin Sullivan.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register for Section 6. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Join us in Park City and see how community and storytelling come together in our newest exhibition: Lee Mingwei: The Gifts of Connection, on view November 17th, 2023 - March 18th, 2024. Learn from local artists and educators while we explore how art facilitates the sharing of stories, healing and change. The evening will consist of refreshments, a tour of the gallery, educational materials and hands-on workshops

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 7 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Join us in Park City and see how community and storytelling come together in our newest exhibition: Lee Mingwei: The Gifts of Connection, on view November 17th, 2023 - March 18th, 2024. Learn from local artists and educators while we explore how art facilitates the sharing of stories, healing and change. The evening will consist of refreshments, a tour of the gallery, educational materials and hands-on workshops

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register in Section 5 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Explore the UMFA’s collections and special exhibit Tatau: Marks of Polynesia to dive deeper into understanding the varied symbols of family. Families come in many forms and can be biological and/or chosen. Understand students better by understanding their situations and how they thrive in a family, while making your classroom its own sort of family.

This evening will include community members sharing their personal connections to Tatau: Marks of Polynesia before participants spend time finding their own art connections. We’ll finish the night with a special hands-on activity led by Esmeralda Torres, introducing us to the wonderful world of cacao and her heritage from Chiapas, Mexico.

**It is highly encouraged to participate in person for this event to have the full hands-on experience.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 22 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

Explore the UMFA’s collections and special exhibit Tatau: Marks of Polynesia to dive deeper into understanding the varied symbols of family. Families come in many forms and can be biological and/or chosen. Understand students better by understanding their situations and how they thrive in a family, while making your classroom its own sort of family.

This evening will include community members sharing their personal connections to Tatau: Marks of Polynesia before participants spend time finding their own art connections. We’ll finish the night with a special hands-on activity led by Esmeralda Torres, introducing us to the wonderful world of cacao and her heritage from Chiapas, Mexico.

**It is highly encouraged to participate in person for this event to have the full hands-on experience.

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in person register for section 3 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

While quilts often evoke a sense of comfort, warmth, and safety, we rarely consider the forceful processes required to create them. Like the actions that form and re-form our planet, quilts are created through brutal means—in the case of a quilt, material is cut or torn, pinned, pierced by needle and thread, worked, and reworked by the artist until an aesthetic object is formed. Primal Forces: Earth explores both the inherent and human mediated forces that impact the earth on which we live, all through the medium of textiles. Come learn how art quilts can be used in cross-curricular lessons adaptable for different grades!

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 4 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

While quilts often evoke a sense of comfort, warmth, and safety, we rarely consider the forceful processes required to create them. Like the actions that form and re-form our planet, quilts are created through brutal means—in the case of a quilt, material is cut or torn, pinned, pierced by needle and thread, worked, and reworked by the artist until an aesthetic object is formed. Primal Forces: Earth explores both the inherent and human mediated forces that impact the earth on which we live, all through the medium of textiles. Come learn how art quilts can be used in cross-curricular lessons adaptable for different grades!

(This section is to register to attend via ZOOM, if you would like to participate in-person register in section 1 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

The Fairbanks Family: An American Art Dynasty celebrates generations of artists in the Fairbanks Family, and their contributions to Utah, American, and international art. Descendants of the Fairbanks family have continued the tradition of excellence in the arts as professional painters, sculptors, curators, scientists, and educators. Join us at the Springville Museum of Art for an Evening to explore the intersection of art, science, and industry through a keynote address, hands-on artmaking workshops, and lesson plans.

(This section is to register to attend IN PERSON, if you would like to participate online register in Section 2 instead. If you do not have a MIDAS account, please contact Elena Free at EFree@springville.org to register.)

The Fairbanks Family: An American Art Dynasty celebrates generations of artists in the Fairbanks Family, and their contributions to Utah, American, and international art. Descendants of the Fairbanks family have continued the tradition of excellence in the arts as professional painters, sculptors, curators, scientists, and educators. Join us at the Springville Museum of Art for an Evening to explore the intersection of art, science, and industry through a keynote address, hands-on artmaking workshops, and lesson plans.