Arts Express Summer Conference will be held at Viewpoint Middle School, located at 211 W Traverse Terrace Dr, Lehi, UT 84043. Visit our Location Page for directions and parking instructions. We encourage you to carpool with colleagues whenever possible!
Arts Express offers a variety of creative, experiential, hands-on workshops. Before building your schedule, study the conference sessions carefully, noting which sessions run concurrently and which are most relevant to your teaching needs. We encourage you to broaden your artistic abilities and pedagogical scope. Need courage? Grab a friend and choose a session that might feel uncomfortable to you. Every session will be valuable and enriching.
The BYU ARTS Partnership's motto is "Every Child, Every Art", and this year’s theme is “Circles All Around Us." We will be privileged to have Brad Montague, author and illustrator of the book Circles All Around Us, join us as a keynote speaker. Recent years in teaching have been heralded as the hardest ones yet. To ease the burden on teachers, our goals for Arts Express are designed for educators to:
This conference is the best bargain around because of generous contributions from the BYU ARTS Partnership, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, 8 Utah Arts organizations (POPs), BTS Arts, and our partners. Your registration fee covers your four meals (breakfast and lunch each day) as well as the registration processing fee. Thank you to our sponsors and partners (listed below).
Yes! You can find instructions for group registration by clicking here.
Yes. You may attend only one day, but the conference fee will remain the same.
Unfortunately, no. Presenter handouts will be made available online and through the app, but recorded session videos will not be made available this year. We hope you will join us in-person for an incredible conference full of hands-on, engaging workshops!
There are three types of credit you can receive for attending the conference. If you are unsure which kind of credit is best for you, speak with your principal, instructional coach, or district Arts Integration Coach.
To sign up for 1 BYU credit, click here. The cost is $48. You must register online for BYU credit by June 5th.
For 1 USBE credit or USBE Relicensure hours: on your attendance verification form, which you will recieve at the conference, indicate which type of credit you would like to receive and provide your Cactus ID. Turn in your attendance verification form before leaving the conference. We will take care of the rest!
At the conference, you will receive an attendance verification form. For relicensure hours, you will turn in the form before leaving the conference. For USBE or BYU credit, you will turn in the form and also need to submit a one-page implementation report of how you will implement what you learned at the conference—email reports to artspartnership@byu.edu by July 15, 2024. See the attendance verification form for additional details.
No. You can only receive one type of credit: up to 15 relicensure hours OR 1 USBE credit OR 1 BYU credit.