Fine Arts

The Salt Lake City School District realizes the importance of arts education in the lives of our students. The purpose of the Office of Fine Arts is to provide professional development, resources, and support for teachers and students in music, theatre, dance, and visual art. We believe that all students should have access to the arts core curriculum and we work hard to help schools make that happen.

"A dance engages the body and delivers exhilaration; A drama invites the willing suspension of disbelief, creating the context for a deeper message; A painting summons reflection; A song can open a new window onto events, ideas, and historical eras."
- Unknown

Workshop

The John F. Kennedy Center Partners in Education Utah Team, Salt Lake City School District, Kingsbury Hall and Youth Theatre at the U. invite you to:

POETRY AND MUSIC: PART 1

SOUND WRITING: MASTERING READING AND WRITING WITH FLUENCY

BY NATIONAL KENNEDY CENTER PRESENTER
MARCIA DAFT
For Classroom, ESL Teachers, and Specialists Grades 3-8

In this workshop discover how to recognize sound and rhythmic patterns in language, and use this to teach reading fluency. Learn how to read poetry with accurate rhythm and phrasing. And explore how poets use musical devices such as rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, and form to shape and craft phrases. Teach these writing techniques to your students and see how their language development flourishes! Join Marcia Daft, musician and national teaching artist, for an experience that will transform the way you think about teaching reading and writing

WORKSHOP: MAY 4, 2012 from 2:00-5:00 pm
Salt Lake City School District Offices Room 112, 113, 114
440 East 100 South

Licensure points available
No cost due to the generous sponsorship from Artworks for Kids!

National Language Arts Benchmarks and Standards this workshop focuses on:

• Vocabulary development, comparing shades of meaning and tone in different word choices
• Use of descriptive and figurative language in poetry writing
• Identifying rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and patterned structures in poetry writing
• Pre-writing, drafting, writing, editing, and revising original poetry

To register you must use this link: Poetry and Music

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Artist Focus

Jacobsen, Elverta (1900-?), of Brigham City and Salt Lake City, was the pupil at one time or another of Joseph Everett, Lynn Fausett, Mary Kimball, Beatrice Fanning, and Michael Cannon. A longterm student and dedicated member of Associated Utah Artists and the Everett Art Guild, he also became an oil painter and watercolorist of landscape and still-life pieces, and... Read more.

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Artstream

Artstream, is a Salt Lake City School District Choice Initiative offered in several schools working collaboratively across elementary, middle and high school levels to provide strong academics and more ways for students to learn and find success by integrating dance, drama, music and visual arts into the curriculum, K-12.

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Partners and Organizations

• ArtsBridge America at the University of Utah
• ArtsEdge at The Kennedy Center
• A.R.T.S., Inc.
• art works for kids!
• Bad Dog Arts
• Ballet West
• Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program (BTSALP)
• Center for Documentary Arts
• Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Art
• friends of art works for kids!
• The Grand Theatre
• The Kennedy Center - Partners in Education
• Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah
• The Mundi Project
• Repertory Dance Theatre (rdt)
• Ririe Woodbury Dance Company
• Salt Lake Acting Company
• Salt Lake City Arts Council
• Salt Lake Education Foundation
• Sorenson Legacy Foundation
• Spy Hop
• Tanner Creative Dance Program at the University of Utah
• University of Utah College of Fine Arts
• University of Utah School of Music
• Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers
• Utah Cultural Alliance and Artes de Mexico
• Utah Division of Arts and Museums (formerly The Utah Arts Council)
• Utah Film Center
• Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly The Salt Lake Art Center)
• Utah Museum of Fine Art
• Utah Music Educators
• Utah Sympony Utah Opera
• Youth Theatre at the University of Utah