artsFusion Projects and Partners

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 EVENTS page to register for upcoming workshops.

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

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.

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.