Educators and service providers collaborate with professional artists to create residency programs, special projects, and festivals as requested by individual schools or teachers and administrators from school districts and disability or cultural service organizations. Each project is specifically designed to accommodate the unique needs of the requesting school and its targeted students. Arts education activities include an array of visual, performing (dance/movement), and literary arts. All residencies include an in-service component to help educators continue applying arts programming in their classrooms after their project concludes.
These integrated programs have experienced consistent success. They strengthen our community by providing free and targeted arts activities to Utah students with sensory, cognitive, learning, developmental, and/or physical disabilities. By creating art in an inclusive environment with their peers, students with disabilities can develop the following: small and large motor coordination, language and interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, behavior and stress management, creativity, and self-awareness and self-esteem. Incorporating the arts into the core curriculum in this way often leads to students with disabilities becoming more integrated into the community life of their school and experiencing additional classroom success.
Integrated Arts Program Allocation Information
This program's requirement of integration prescribes that students receiving special education services are integrated with students from their school's mainstream population.
Professional artists for the Integrated Arts Program are contracted from the Teaching Artists Roster of the Division of Arts and Museums, which includes well-trained and qualified artists who are able to work in various circumstances and with a wide range of age groups and abilities.
Proposal Deadline: June 2nd, 2017
Eligible Participants: children (3 to 22) receiving special education services
To submit an allocation proposal to be considered for an Integrated Arts in Utah Schools Program, please contact .
Project Dates: To be determined by artist and facility (July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018)
Program Allocations: $500 to $2,000 according to project need
Previous Program Sites:
Bud Bailey Apartments
Edison Elementary
Franklin Elementary
Granite Elementary School
Indian Hills Elementary
Kauri Sue Hamilton School
Primary Children's Medical Center @ Wasatch Canyons Behavioral Health Unit
The Road Home Shelter
University Neuropsychiatric Institute Girls' Transition Unit
Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind locations:
Blind Region 1
Blind Region 2
Millcreek Elementary
Salt Lake Campus
Jean Masseiu School of the Deaf
Westmore Elementary
Utah Arts Fesival Art Yard
Contact: To request information about allocation proposals and requirements for your organization, email
This program is provided, in part, under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
