Welcome to Visual Art!
“Art can transform lives. It gives us the power to question, to confront, to explore, and to challenge how we think about the world.” -Lucy Liu
The Fine Arts Core Curriculum places emphasis on creating, performing, presenting, producing, responding, and connecting. In Granite School District teachers use curriculum maps, benchmarks, and benchmark assessments that are based on the Utah State Core Standards for Dance, Theatre, and Visual Arts.
Students have many opportunities to perform, present, and produce works of art in each of these areas.
Visual Art
Students have many opportunities to share their art work in Granite School District. Many schools have art shows each year. We also have a Granite School District Junior High Art Show and a Granite School District High School Art Show each year. These exhibitions run for one week each and are in April in the GEC’s auditorium. It is always exciting to see what our teachers have taught and the creativity expressed by students.
Granite Art Olympics
We are also very fortunate to have the Granite Education Foundation work in partnership with Curriculum and Instruction to sponsor the ART OLYMPICS.
This is a competition for our high school art students where students compete and create a work of art in 4 hours. We have outstanding artists, who come and mentor the student artists, and also serve as judges. Students are given art supplies and winners receive cash awards.
District Arts Calendar 2026-2027
View the District Fine Arts events calendar for the new school year. If you have any questions regarding these events, please feel free to email Noemi Hernandez Balcazar or Timothy Jackubek at Granite Schools for more information.
Visual Arts Calendar 2026-2027
Visual Arts Calendar 2026-2027 image details
Title: 2026-27 Calendar
Color key: High School; Junior High; Elementary
August 2026: LEG; TCD; Plein Air Session (Aug 21); Best of the Best 2026 Exhibit (May 1–Sept 24)
September 2026: Labor Day (Sept 7); Exhibit Reception (Sept 15); C (Sept 18); Employee Exhibit starts (Sept 25)
October 2026: The Important Great Salt Lake Exhibit (Oct 26–Nov 17); Fall Break (Oct 15–16); T/TCD; LEG
November 2026: TCD (Nov 6); Thanksgiving Break (Nov 25–27); Be Here Be You BELONG Exhibit (Nov 18–Dec 17)
December 2026: Winter Break starts (Dec 21); BTS group 1 set up (Dec 18)
January 2027: Winter Break continues through Jan 1; Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan 18); Do Art to Be Smart Exhibit (Dec 18–Feb 26); BTSALP
February 2027: Pres. Day (Feb 15); TCD (Feb 16); HS Art Olympics (Feb 24); District Comp Poster Due (Feb 26); BTSALP
March 2027: T/TCD (Mar 15); Spring Break starts (Mar 29); Teacher Exhibit (Mar 1–Apr 30)
April 2027: Spring Break ends (Apr 2); Junior High and High School exhibit setups and receptions
May 2027: Memorial Day (May 31); year-end meetings; Best of the Best and Rosenblatt Exhibit starts
- C: Compensatory Day (student recess day)
- TCD: Teacher Contract Day (student recess day)
- T/TCD: End of Term/TCD (student recess day)
- LEG: Legislative Instructional Exemption / No School / NC
Fine Arts Curriculum Specialist: Noemi Veronica Hernandez-Balcazar (385-646-4638)
Curriculum & Instruction Secretary: Jannette LaRose (Email Jannette LaRose, 385-646-4620)
Field trips, resources and other questions
BTSALP involves Virtual Arts from our Elementary School Arts Programs Gallery Exhibits.