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Utah Habitats: Wetlands is a collaborative project that addresses a community need through art. The Ogden Nature Center identified a problem with birds flying into the windows of its buildings. To address the problem, the Arts Learning Collaborative at Weber State University collaborated with the Ogden Nature Center, BTS Arts, and students at Weber State University and Snow Horse Elementary School to create a window art installation designed to reduce bird collisions as well as beautify the interior of the Ogden Nature Center while educating visitors about Utah habitats, birds, and plants. Visit the art installation in the Ogden Nature Center Discovery Room!

Murals with a Mission is a course where ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Honors Students learn about public art and how art can impact and shape a community.

Project contributors include: Snow Horse Elementary School 4th Grade Students, Terra Stringham, Weber State University Murals with a Mission Class, Visual Art Educator at Snow Horse Elementary School, Erinne Roundy, Artist in Residence & BTS Arts Program Assistant in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative, Olivia Roundy, Utah Habitats Lead Artist & Project Assistant in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative, Jenne Talbot, Snow Horse Elementary School Principal, Tamara Goldbogen, ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative Director & BTS Endowed Chair in Arts Learning, Deja Mitchell, BTS Arts Program Assistant in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative, and Samantha Steffan, BTS Arts Program Coordinator in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative. This project is supported by Weber State University Center for Community Engaged Learning.

Utah Habitats: Birds & Plants is a collaborative project that addresses a community need through art. The Ogden Nature Center identified a problem of birds flying into windows in their education building. To address the problem, the Arts Learning Collaborative at Weber State University collaborated with the Ogden Nature Center, BTS Arts, and students at Weber State University and GreenWood Charter School to create a window art installation designed to reduce bird collisions as well as beautify the interior of the Ogden Nature Center while educating visitors about Utah habitats, birds, and plants. Visit the art installation at the Ogden Nature Center Education Building!

Creative Processes is a course that provides ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø elementary education students with strategies to incorporate arts learning in their classrooms as educators. The course explores arts instruction across the curriculum.

Project contributors include: GreenWood Charter School 3rd & 4th Grade Students & Nature Journaling Students, Weber State University Creative Processes Class, Lydia Stewart, BTS Arts Educator at GreenWood Charter School, Maele Shakespear, Artist in Residence, Tracey Nelsen, GreenWood Charter School Director, Tamara Goldbogen, ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative Director & BTS Endowed Chair in Arts Learning, Erinne Roundy, BTS Arts Program Assistant in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative, Olivia Roundy, Project Assistant in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative, and Samantha Steffan, BTS Arts Program Coordinator in the ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø Arts Learning Collaborative.This project is supported by the Weber State University Center for Community Engaged Learning.

ArtsBridge: Murals is a course that provides students with an experiential learning opportunity to create and implement a service-learning project–designed through the lens of an art form–with community organizations.

Fall 2020

During Fall 2020, ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø ArtsBridge students will create window art installations designed to decrease window bird collisions at the Ogden Nature Center. Partners will be ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø, ONC, Arts Learning Collaborative, BTS Arts, and area elementary students.

³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø students in the Artsbridge: Murals (Fall 2019), created a faux-stained glass installation titled, "Utah Birds & Ecosystems" at James Madison Elementary School. During this course, students worked closely with BTS Arts Visual Arts Specialist Brent Rhodes and his 4th graders at James Madison to co-create this art installation. Students visited the Ogden Nature Center to learn more about Utah’s birds and ecosystems and work closely with local artists to inform their creative process.

During the Spring 2018 semester, ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø hosted ArtsBridge: Murals (HNRS 1530) Engaging Community through Moveable Murals with ³Ô¹Ï¹ÙÍø faculty Tamara Goldbogen and K Stevenson along with community partners Amir Jackson, Nurture the Creative Mind and lead artist Erinne Roundy. This class provided students with an experiential learning opportunity to create and implement a service-learning project–designed through the lens of an art form–with community organizations and resulted in a Moveable Mural, which travels around Ogden.

The first iteration of ArtsBridge was structured as an internship that provided undergraduate students with academic credit for designing and implementing a comprehensive, needs-based, integrated arts project with community organizations or area schools. Emphasis was placed on experiential learning, collaboration, leadership, research, and service.

• Erinne Roundy. ArtsBridge (3 credit hours) - Worked with classroom teacher Claire Maciejewski and her 1st grade students integrating visual arts into the curriculum. 2014.
• Lauren Paskett. ArtsBridge (4 credit hours) - Created an after-school puppet theater workshop series for 5th and 6th graders. 2014.
• Roxanne Paulsen. ArtsBridge (1 credit hour) - Worked with a group of third graders showing them how dance and movement can be used to express verbal language. 2014.
• Chelsea Barlowe. ArtsBridge (1 credit hour) - Collaborated with 4th and 5th grade teachers in developing a unit that incorporated visual arts, creative writing in language arts, and social studies into a study of Native American totem poles. 2014.