VSA Utah has contracted with the Utah State Office Of Education: Special Education Services Unit since 1993 to provide inclusive arts services in all art mediums for students, ages 3 to 22, who receive special education services. Educators collaborate with professional artists to develop residency programs as requested by individual schools, teachers, or administrators from school districts and disability or cultural service organizations statewide. All residencies include an in-service component for educators in order to help them continue applying arts programming in their classrooms independently.
With the disappearance of arts specialists in Utah schools, students, especially those with disabilities, rarely have access to quality arts education and experiences. VSA Utah obtains the services of trained professional artists to create meaningful and inclusive arts education activities. Benefits for students include: opportunities to experience further classroom success; to become more fully integrated with student peers; and chances to be more fully integrated into typical student life. This programs requirement of integration prescribes that students receiving special education services are integrated with students from their school's mainstream population.
Integrated Arts Program Proposal Information
Art Access/VSA Utah accepts proposals for arts programming (Artist-in-Residencies, Arts Festivals and Special Arts Projects) for students receiving special education services, ages 3 to 22.
The Art Access/VSA Utah Artist Resource Directory includes well trained and qualified artists who are able to work in various circumstances and with a wide range of age groups and abilities.
Types of Programming
Artist in Residency – A school or facility collaborates with a professional artist who conducts activities for a particular class or client group. All residencies are required to incorporate an inclusive element. The school or facility is also required to host an in-service for educators and/or staff to allow the artist-in-residence an opportunity to share the tools needed to include arts activities within established classroom curriculums.
Special Projects – A school or facility collaborates with a professional artist(s) to plan an inclusive, larger-scale art project with a class, grade, or with multiple age groups. Funds in this category can also be to train educators in ways of adapting inclusive arts into classroom curriculum for students with disabilities.
Festivals – A school or facility organizes a large-scale arts event that typically includes several professional artists conducting multiple arts projects and performances in an inclusive festival format.
INTEGRATED ARTS PROGRAM PROPOSALS
Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, May 31, 2011
For: students receiving special education services in Utah
Project Dates: July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012
Award Amounts: vary from $200 to $2,500, according to project need
To apply for program funding, please carefully complete the proposal materials (right click and "Save Target As" to download these Microsoft Word documents):
Proposal Guidelines
Proposal Cover Sheet
Proposal Questions
Proposed Budget Form
Questions?
Please contact Amanda Finlayson, Programming & Development Manager for Art Access/VSA arts of Utah, at 801-328-0703 or e-mail amanda@accessart.org.
2009/2010 Program Sites
Residencies & Special Projects
Arrowhead Elementary School in Santa Clara
Bennion Elementary School in Salt Lake City
City Academy in Salt Lake City
Edison Elementary School in Salt Lake City
Enterprise Elementary School in Enterprise
Iron County School District in Cedar City
Kindred Spirits in Salt Lake City
Little Valley Elementary School in St. George
Mill Creek Elementary School in Salt Lake City
Nizhoni Bridges in Bluff
Panorama Elementary School in St. George
Primary Children's Medical Center's Forever Young Zone in Salt Lake City
Primary Children’s Medical Center's Residential Treatment North in Salt Lake City
The Road Home in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City School District
Salt Lake Community Action Program's Faces of Youth in Salt Lake City
Summit High School in Orem
Sunset Elementary School in St. George
Upland Terrace Elementary School in Salt Lake City
Utah Schools for the Deaf & the Blind classrooms at
- Blind North Campus in Ogden
- Deaf North Campus in Ogden
- Deaf Central Campus in Salt Lake City
- Blind Central Campus in Salt Lake City
- Willow Canyon Elementary School in Sandy
Festivals
Davis School District Special Education Festival in Kaysville
Jordan Valley School in Midvale
The Kauri Sue Hamilton School in Riverton
Moab Art Carnival in Moab
Multi-Cultural Festival in Salt Lake City
Neighborhood House Day Care in Salt Lake City
Utah Arts Festival Children’s Art Yard Booth in Salt Lake City
For additional information concerning this program or for assistance with proposal forms, please contact Amanda at 328-0703 or e-mail amanda@accessart.org.
