Each fall and spring, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art hosts an "Evening for Educators" session featuring nationally renowned art educators and artists working in the education field. The activity is part of SWAP--the State Wide Art Partnership initiative--and is open to all educators, elementary through high school, from the northern Utah and southern Idaho region. These workshops highlight techniques for using authentic and original art objects from the museum's collection to build a spiral of learning by extending the classroom.  

Paul Hildebrant, Chief Visionary Officer from Zometool, Inc. in Longmont, CO, conducted a hands-on workshop to public school teachers in the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall in front of Ann Preston's installation, Passacaglia.

Daniel Barney, Fall 2010

Daniel Barney graduated from BYU in 1995 with a degree in Printmaking with certification in Art Education K-12 and in 2004 with a Master's in Art Education. Although his degree was in Printmaking & Drawing, Daniel has shown jewelry, glass work, photography, paintings, videos, drawings, and sewn work in galleries and museums across the US and Canada, including Ayden Gallery in Vancouver, BC; Coda Gallery in Park City, Palm Desert, & New York; Exit9 Gift Emporium in New York City; The Glass Eye Studio in Seattle, WA; The Museum of Anthropology at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC; Sundance Catalog Company from Sundance, UT; Art Access Gallery in Salt Lake City, UT; Springville Museum of Art in Springville, UT; Towson ARTS Collective in Towson, MD. Barney is currently a faculty member in BYU's Department of Visual Arts.
 

Brent Wilson, Spring 2009

Brent Wilson is a professor emeritus in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State. He received a Ph.D. in art education from the Ohio State University (1966), an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art (1958), and a BS in art and education from Utah State University (1956). His research includes studies of visual cultural influences on children’s artistic development, cross-cultural studies of children’s graphic narratives, Japanese teenagers’ dojinshi/manga and comic markets, and studies of children’s interpretations of artworks. During the 1970s he developed the first National Assessment of Educational Progress in Art, in the 1980s he did the research for and drafted Toward Civilization: A Report to the President and Congress [on the status of arts education in the US], and in the 1980s and 90s he evaluated professional development programs of the Getty Education Institute for the Arts (which culminated in the publication of The Quiet Evolution: Changing the Face of Arts Education).

Susan Roth, Fall 2009 

Susan Roth, author/illustrator of 40 books, received an M.A. in Printmaking and Art History from Mills College, Oakland, California (1968), and a B.A. in Art from the same institution(1965). Her art work is featured in the book Let’s Hold Hands Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea (2009) by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth.