The Evenings for Educators series is one of the longest-running programs of the StateWide Art Partnership (SWAP). These events are held at locations across the state of Utah and feature speakers, hands-on workshops, and educational materials designed to help teachers integrate art into their curriculum. Teachers may receive in-service credit for attending these events.
Supermarket
Evening for Educators, February 6, 2020
MOA Exhibition: Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America
Experience our the dazzling exhibition of Pop Art and learn how American consumer culture informed the production of fine art during the 1960s. Participate in workshops where you will learn printing techniques used to create the iconic images of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns.
Lesson Materials:
Multisensory: Engaging Children and Teens with Visual Art
Evening for Educators, September 26, 2019
MOA Exhibition: Becoming America
Visit Becoming America, the MOA’s exhibition of American art, and experience playful ways to teach children and teens about visual art and culture using multimodal teaching strategies. Ideal for a gallery or classroom setting, these techniques will help art novices and experts alike to facilitate exciting lessons about visual art. Fun art-making studio projects will round out the gallery experience.
Lesson Materials:
Responding to Art, Grades 1 – 5
Responding to Art, Grades 6 – 9
(email philipp_malzl@byu.edu for high-res version)
Nature Transformed: The Art of Patrick Dougherty and Danae Mattes
Evening for Educators, February 7, 2019
MOA Exhibition: Windswept and Where the River Widens
Patrick Dougherty’s grand installations, made from thousands of interwoven tree saplings, celebrate the repetitive toil of agrarian life and the Zen of handcrafted workmanship. Danae Mattes’ evaporation pools elicit the deep connection we feel with nature’s most essential, life-giving element—water. In the workshops, you will discover ways to mold nature’s bounteous materials into new and captivating art forms.
Lesson Materials:
You Can Draw! Fun and Accessible Drawing Techniques for All Ages
Evening for Educators, October 3, 2018
MOA Exhibition: Lasting Impressions: Etchings and Drawings by Carl Bloch
This evening is all about line–a fundamental element of art. Start with a tour of Lasting Impressions, our new exhibition of Carl Bloch’s masterful etchings and drawings. Experience an engaging keynote address by Utah-based artists Cassandra Barney and Brian Kershisnik on their unique approaches to drawing. Then attend their individual workshops to learn fun and simple drawing techniques designed to help you and your students discover that everyone can draw!
Lesson Materials:
You Can Draw! Fun and Accessible Drawing Techniques for All Ages
Seasons, Cycles & Sequences: Capturing Time and Change in Art
Evening for Educators, March 29, 2018
MOA Exhibition: Nina Katchedourian: Curiouser
Visit Nina Katchedourian’s thought-provoking exhibition Curiouser and ponder both human behavior and the surprising order of the natural world.
Lesson Materials:
Curious-Serious-Funny: Nina Katchadourian’s Methods (email philipp_malzl@byu.edu for PDF of this lesson plan)
Fascinating Foray into the Heart of M.C. Escher
Evening for Educators, November 30, 2017
MOA Exhibition: Other Worlds: The Art of M.C. Escher
Discover an artistic realm of wonder, impossible constructions, and infinite tessellations conceived in the mind—and heart—of one of the worlds’ most famous graphic artists; then experience hands-on art workshops that will inspire your own inner “Escher.”
Lesson Materials:
All Fun and Games? James Mollison’s “Playground”
Evening for Educators, April 12, 2017
MOA Exhibition: Playground
Learn about the vast array of social, political, and economic conditions that define school education worldwide and take part in workshops that reveal the prime importance of play in the formal and informal learning of children.
Lesson Materials:
All Fun and Games? James Mollison’s Playground – Lesson Plan
It’s My Life: Autobiography & Nostalgia in Art
Evening for Educators, October 12, 2016
MOA Exhibition: Rebecca Campbell: The Potato Eaters
Explore artworks based on artist Rebecca Campbell’s personal life and learn about the role nostalgia plays in creating and interpreting autobiographical art.
Lesson Materials:
It’s My Life: Autobiography & Nostalgia in Art
