SmartARTS Institute July 14 - 17, 2025 at the Fine Arts Center in partnership with Greenville County Schools. SmartARTS Presentation: Click Here
Download Schedule: Schedule TEACHERS - BRING YOUR SCHOOL ID & LAPTOP.
2025 Sessions to Include:
Keynote Adam Booth! Adam Booth (he/him) is the 2022 West Virginia Folk Artist of the Year, awarded at the Governor’s Arts Awards. Adam blends traditional mountain folklore, music, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia to create original, forward-thinking story artistry. LEARN MORE
Year One Sessions include Introduction to Arts Integration, Yoga, Making a Cartoon Mini-book, Mask Making, Ceramics, Dance, Introduction to Dramatic Interpretation, and Visual Arts with Cultural Connections. Plus meeting and planning with your artist!
Year Two Sessions include Dance as Storytelling, Visual Arts with Cultural Connections, Keynote Adam Booth, Ceramics, and Reflection through Drama. Plus meeting and planning with your artist!
Year Three Sessions include Keynote Adam Booth, Ceramics, and Reflection through Drama. Plus meeting and planning with your artist!
2025 SmartARTS Resources and Parking Lot:
2024 Highlights:
The Center for Puppetry Arts Atlanta! Join the Center for Puppetry Arts to explore puppetry as an engaging and powerful classroom tool! Participants will enjoy a fun warm up that activates bodies and brains, discover the diverse styles of puppetry, learn the basics of puppet manipulation, and be inspired by a wide variety of low cost puppets for the classroom. These experiences will allow participants to leave with the basic tools they need to bring puppets into their teaching and learning environments.
Read what teachers are saying about The TD Center for Arts Integration: Testimonials
2024 SmartARTS Education Institure Presentations
Reflection Session: Click here for PPTUNIT PLAN NUTS AND BOLTS: Click Here
Administrators and teachers, please see this Slides presentation below to learn more about SmartARTS. SmartARTS Presentation: CLICK HERE:
Thanks to the generosity of the South Carolina Arts Commission, and the TD Center for Arts Integration, the SmartARTS Education Institute is provided for up to 85 Greenville County Teachers and up to 30 teaching artists at the low cost of $25 per person including daily lunch, beverages, PD materials, t-shirt, and art supplies.
PAST PRESENTATIONS
EDUCATORS "Parking Lot" 2022 PADLET.
Find the South Carolina Education Standards here.
Dance: Kristen La Roy of TR Makers
Theater: Alliance Theater
'7 Types of Learners' Activity: Kimberly Gibbs
First-Year Teacher Training
What is Arts Integration? Kennedy Center
Dance Immersion Handout, Christie Leonard. Click here
PrintMaking Immersion Handout, Sunny M. McGowen: Click here Slides: Click here
Arts Integration Resources: Click here
Creative Writing with Moody Black Click Here
Visual Arts with Sherry Smith Click here
Mask Making with Carlon Steller Click here
Process Drama with Kim Baran: PPT Click here. Handout Click here
Cultural Studies through Felting, Cecilia Ho. Click here
Process Drama with Kim Baran: Click here
Digital Storytelling Click here
Musical Theater Slides, Jonathan Kilpatrick: Click here
Dance: Kristen La Roy of TR Makers
Theater: Alliance Theater
'7 Types of Learners' Activity: Kimberly Gibbs
First-Year Teacher Training
What is Arts Integration? Kennedy Center
Dance Immersion Handout, Christie Leonard. Click here
PrintMaking Immersion Handout, Sunny M. McGowen: Click here Slides: Click here
Arts Integration Resources: Click here
Creative Writing with Moody Black Click Here
Visual Arts with Sherry Smith Click here
Mask Making with Carlon Steller Click here
Process Drama with Kim Baran: PPT Click here. Handout Click here
Cultural Studies through Felting, Cecilia Ho. Click here
Process Drama with Kim Baran: Click here
Digital Storytelling Click here
Musical Theater Slides, Jonathan Kilpatrick: Click here
