ARTS Express Summer Conference 2025 will be held at Lake Mountain Middle School, located at 1058 S Old Farm Rd, Saratoga Springs, UT 84045. 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 “Joyful Learning." We will be privileged to have Trena Noval, Indi McCasey, and Mara Menzies join us as keynote speakers.
The goal of ARTS Express 2025 is to excite and empower educators to integrate the arts and build deep thinking skills among their students, classrooms, and schools. Education can be a joyful and energizing experience for all learners, which comes through:
This conference will focus on the student experience while providing educators with resources, knowledge, and ideas of effective fine arts instruction, arts-integrated instruction, and critical thinking routines.
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. We hope you will join us in-person for an incredible conference full of hands-on, engaging workshops!
There are two 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.
Unfortunately, BYU credit is not available this year.
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 your completed form before leaving the conference. That's it! You're done!
For USBE 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, 2025. 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.