Professional Development

We offer a range of professional development courses and trainings to the cultural community.

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Professional Development and Training

Student and professional writers and artists find creative competitions that help them hone their skills and build audiences for their work.

Breaking Barriers

This culturally forward-reaching project — a partnership between Arts Access and UA&M — provides disability accessibility training and mentorship for cultural institutions.

Change Leaders

For artists and creative administrators, this immersive training program offers toolkits and instruction to help leaders embrace — and strategically implement — change.

Creative Aging

Join a network of cultural organizations, senior service organizations, libraries, and artists trained in specific techniques to foster life-long creativity.

Arts Education Program

Creative workshops by artists and educators help develop teachers' classroom skills and artistic practices. The program also offers support through the state's Teaching Artist roster.

StEPs-UT for Museums

UA&M partners with Utah Humanities and the Utah Historical Society to present the Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations, an enrichment opportunity designed to help museums achieve success in six areas of institutional practice.

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Museum Field Services

The Museum Field Services program advances the value of Utah museums to enable the broadest physical, intellectual, and emotional access to collections and programs. The program helps museums improve their ability to care for and manage collections; develop quality educational resources; provide access to collections for research; and identify and compete for financial resources.

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