Teaching Artist Rosters

All documentation submitted is subject to a blind review by a peer panel. The panel consists of artists, university professors, artistic directors, curators, arts educators and presenters from Utah and other states.

Educational Excellence Review
The first level of review is for artistic excellence and is conducted by a panel of professional artists and university arts faculty members. Candidates who successfully pass this level of review are then interviewed online or in person by panel of arts educators (recognized classroom teachers, university arts education professors, arts principals, and ada access specialists. Artists are reviewed for arts education experience, with particular attention to how the applicant will engage the students in their discipline and the creative process. At this interview artists describe residency plans, artistic philosophy, role of the artist vs. the teacher, integration of the Utah State Fine Arts Core Curriculum goals and objectives, etc.

All applicants are notified of the panel’s decisions from the Artistic Excellence Review. Please do not call the Arts Education office. You will be contacted by email to discuss the next steps. Approved artists are given additional application materials for the Educational Excellence Review. There is not a set application deadline, but we do not enpanel a review for only a single applicant. Reviews will be conducted periodically when enough candidates in a given discipline have applied.

If approved to the Artist Teaching Roster, we'll add the artist's profile to our directory, which is available to the public (see link above). The artist's profile includes their home city, phone number, and email address.

• Artists are welcome to apply to more than one discipline, however, acceptance in one category does not automatically assume acceptance in all the applied categories. You must submit evidence of artistry FOR EACH CATEGOR YOU SELECT.
• Documentation should reflect work from the past 2-3 years.
• For video and audio recordings, please submit high quality files. Poorly lit, video or garbled audio recordings with background noise, etc. will hinder the panel’s ability to review documentation accurately.
• Please include a full description of each work or piece of evidence you submit for review. For images with multiple artists, make sure to identify for the panel which one is you (describe your location, costume or insturment, etc.) For visual works, be sure to list the title, dimensions, mediu, and year the work was created for each piece submitted.

Please note the following documentation requirements for each discipline.

Dance
Please include at least three, but no more than four quality video clips of your work as a dancer and/or choreographer. Be sure to include a description of the piece or pieces in each clip, including the title, and chorographer. Individual clips should not exceed three minutes. For longer videos, please identify the timestamp where reviewers should focus. An individual clip could include multiple short samples of various works. For each work you submit, be sure to describe your role in creating it. (i.e. did you choreograph it alone or with collaborators, or was it set by another choreographer.) For group performances, identify yourself on each segment by describing your location on the stage or by describing clothing, etc.) Still photos are not sufficient evidence of artistic excellence.

Literary Arts
Please submit examples of recent work (from the past 2-3 years) without including your name in the submissions. Literary work will be reviewed anonymously. Prose writers must submit a combined total of no less than 20 and no more than 40 pages of manuscript. Please include samples from multiple works, not simply one long passage of a single work. Poets, please submit between 20 and 40 poems. Please include the title and date of each submission along with any other discriptive information.

Music
Please submit audio or video recordings of multiple samples of your recent work. Include a description of each sample, including title and performance date (or date of composition for original works.) For group performances, clearly identify which instrument or voice is the applicant's. Composers may submit musical scores. Do not include the applicant name on any manuscript pages. Number pages consecutively.

Storytelling
Submissions should include video and/or audio recordings of your performances as well as any texts of written works. We recommend that at least one of the stories be original and not an adaptation of a well-known folk tale or story.

Theatre
(Includes mime, reader’s theatre) Please provide samples of your recent work. Include a brief description of each sample including performance date and your role increating the piece presented. For group performances, clearly describe how we may identify the applicant on each segment. (i.e. by position on the stage, by clothing, or by role.) Selections from multiple works are preferable to a longer single sample. The total amount of recorded material for review should not exceed twelve minutes. If longer recordings are included, please include the timestamp for review in your description.

Playwrights may also submit in this category. Please submit examples from completed works rather than scenes or samples from work in progress. Submit written scripts in their entirety but please exclude the author's name from the manuscript. Include a description with page numbers of any selection(s) that the panelists should focus on. The total number of pages for review should not exceed 40. Number pages consecutively.

Multi-discipline
Documentation must reflect integration of different disciplines to create a single multi-discipline exhibit or performance.

Because of the difficulty in accurately representing multi-disciplined exhibitions and performances, please contact the Arts Education Program for suggestions on how to best submit documentation.