Center for Documentary Expression and Art

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 10, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.3

Gross Receipts

$124,229

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Exhibits that teach (ett) ett displays are considerably smaller than major exhibits and are designed for use in utah's schools, community sites, public libraries, and rural museums. Exhibits contain photographs, oral histories and related text, and are booked from four-to-eight week periods at each site. Four traveling ett exhibits are available: faces and voices of refugee youth; sacred images: a vision of native american rock art; ceremonies: a tale of sister cities; and reawakened beauty: tillman crane's jordan river photographs. Three of the four ett exhibits (sacred images: a vision of native american rock art; faces and voices of refugee youth; and reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river) are accompanied by artists/scholars-in-residence programs that engage students in intensive, long-term projects that promote study of the documentary arts; generate original student art; and encourage integrating arts learning with learning in other subjects. Ett displays enable students to create original art while exploring such varied subjects as: utah history, cultural diversity, indigenous cultures, ecology, biology, immigration, discrimination and racism, cross cultural communication, and resolving conflict nonviolently. Over the past year, sacred images: a vision of native american rock art was presented at granger high school in the granite school district. Reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river was presented at the salt lake center for science education in the salt lake city school district and at jordan high school in the canyons school district. Currently, we are preparing to introduce an artists/scholars-in-residence program alongside the faces and voices of refugee youth display. Professional development in 2000, cdea designed a two-semester-long teacher training course- multiculturalism & storytelling-to support its exhibit-related education outreach efforts. This initiative helped k-12 public school teachers infuse utah-based multicultural content into social studies, language arts, math, and science curricula. In 2008, cdea developed a website from this course that was also titled, multiculturalism & storytelling. The site now contains selected lesson plans and action research models developed by teachers that took the course between 2000-2006. The aim of this website is twofold: (1) to make the best multicultural educational tools developed by the class' teachers available to educators statewide, and (2) to enrich the dialogue on the methods and goals of multicultural education in utah. The website can be currently accessed on the utah education network http://www.uen.org/mcst/index. Additionally, cdea executive director leslie kelen has been retained by the utah state office of education to teach the on-line civil rights movement course for the second time in the summer of 2014. The course is available to all utah public school teachers.

Filer

EIN

94-2937284