What is Prairie Visions?

The Prairie Visions Institute has served as Nebraska’s leader in comprehensive arts education and interdisciplinary learning for over 20 years. The professional development workshop is attended by arts educators, classroom teachers, administrators, and program specialists from museums and arts organizations. While most participants come from Nebraska and western Iowa, educators from as far away as China have attended the professional development institute. The Center provides the curriculum development, administration, organization and coordination of the week-long summer institute in June. Participants engage in interactive learning in the visual arts, music, dance / movement, drama and storytelling, using multicultural perspectives, interdisciplinary connections, and thematic curriculum development.

Each year Prairie Visions presents an innovative new program with a thematic curriculum and a pedagogical focus.

THEMATIC FOCUS
2005 Connecting to Community
2006 Sense of Time / The Shape of Space
2007 Worlds Real and Imagined
2008 Crossroads: How the Past Becomes the Future
2009 Public Art: Defining & Redefining Community Identity

PEDAGOGICAL FOCUS
2005 Guided Research
2006 Frameworks for Building Curriculum
2007 21st-Century Literacies
2008 Object / Site-Centered Learning
2009 Differentiation