Skip to main content

Southern Utah University Homepage

Apply Menu
  • Southern Utah University
  • Admissions
  • Academics
  • Student Life
  • About
  • Apply
  • mySUU
  • SUU Students Page
  • SUU Faculty/Staff Page
  • Alumni and Community Relations
  • Donors
    • Directory
    • A-Z Index
    • Calendar
    • Tech Help
artsFUSION
  • Meet Beverley
  • Projects and Partners
  • Resource Library
  • Scholarship Program
  • BTS Arts
  • Arts Education at SUU
  • Past Events
  • About Us

artsFusion Projects and Partners

Projects

Workshops for Educators

School

Wonder Wednesdays at SUMA

Create Playdate at SUMA

Utah Partners and Resources

Art Works for Kids BTS Arts Impact Friends of Art Works for Kids Springville Art Museum Evening for Educators Timpanogos Storytelling USBE Fine Arts Courses Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers Utah Art Education Association Utah Chapter American Orff-Schulwerk Association Utah Cultural Alliance Utah Dance Education Organization Utah Division of Arts & Museums Utah Music Educators Association Utah State Board of Education - Fine Arts Utah Theatre Association

SUU Partners

SUMA School Tours SUMA Education Resources STEM Center for Teaching and Learning Utah Shakespeare Festival Education

University Partners/Organizations

Utah State University Weber State University University of Utah Westminster Brigham Young University Dixie State University

Workshops for Educators

artsFUSION offers professional learning opportunities for teachers, school employees and administrators, arts educators and Southern Utah University students. These events are designed to build skills in the arts which are directly relevant to the elementary classroom. All workshops include strategies for arts integration with other core subject areas.

Check out the artsFUSION Home Page page to register for upcoming workshops.

School Outreach

Workshops, demonstration, and classroom activities can be brought directly to you with artsFUSION’s on-site learning opportunities. We will work with your school to coordinate quality programs from talented and qualified educators.

artsFUSION Outreach Workshop List

Please contact Alisa Petersen to schedule one of these workshops in your school or plan a custom arts workshop for your teachers. These workshops are funded by the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program.

  • Social and Emotional Learning Through the Arts
  • Arts Integration for Long Term Retention
  • CREATES Brainsets: How to develop teaching activities which nurture creativity
  • ELA and the Arts: Making Inferences as You Look At and Talk About Art
  • Artful Thinking: How to practice critical thinking skills using the arts
  • Arts Integration and Universal Design for Learning: Using the arts to create multiple forms of engagement, representation, action and expression
  • Landscape Collage: Create a beautiful and simple landscape with painted paper
  • Pattern Stamping: Print symmetrical repeating patterns using inexpensive materials
  • Zentangle: Create detailed patterns as a form of simple meditation
  • Inky Insects: Create surprising and intricate insect paintings
  • Sumi-e (Japanese Brush Painting): Practice making purposeful marks
  • Tiny Happy Box: Create a matchbox-sized work of art that you can keep in your pocket to pull out when you need a bit of positivity
  • Composing a Melody: How children can compose simple melodies using the pentatonic scale

Wonder Wednesdays at SUMA

Date: 2nd Wednesday of each month from 4:00 to 6:00 pm during the school year.

Wonder Wednesdays are an after-school program for elementary school aged children. It is a joint effort between the Cedar City Public Library, Frontier Homestead State Park, SUMA (Southern Utah Museum of Art), and the SUU STEM Center for Teaching and Learning. Activities are held each Wednesday.

artsFUSION partners with education students to teach Wonder Wednesday once a month at the Southern Utah Museum of Art.

Create Playdate at SUMA

Date: 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 10:00 to 10:45 AM

Location: Create Playdate is taught by SUU students in ECED 2930: Child Development and the Arts. 

Visit your friends at SUMA for a special storytime and hands-on creative activity in performing and visual arts. Each Create Playdate is about 45-minutes long and is geared toward preschool children (ages 3 to 5) and their parents or guardians. Every book read at Create Playdate is followed by engaging and hands-on arts activities that can be enjoyed by the whole family.

  • Academics

  • Academic Calendar
  • Bookstore
  • Catalog
  • Colleges
  • Library
  • Community

  • Arts
  • Athletics
  • Blog
  • Campus Map
  • University Events
  • Resources

  • Campus Safety
  • Employment at SUU
  • Report a Concern
  • Parents and Family
  • SUU Police
  • Contact

  • info@suu.edu
  • 351 W University Blvd.
    Cedar City Utah, 84720
  • 435-586-7700
  • Give
Southern Utah University
  • Accessibility
  • Nondiscrimination
  • Privacy
  • Title IX