ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1184: Looking Through the Lens: How Youth Practice Perspective-Shifting Through Filmmaking

A screening of four youth-produced short films from Spy Hop's Voices of the West media intensive in Utah, paired with research on how young filmmakers practice perspective-shifting. The selected works span a documentary, a YouTube-tutorial parody, an anxiety-themed narrative, and a nostalgic piece on community spaces.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning

Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An arts gallery presentation by an interdisciplinary artist-educator on listening for learning in children's art created within a children's hospital school. The work explores inclusive, adaptive arts education for pediatric patients and how fleeting experiences can be translated into tangible visual forms.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning

10:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1184: Looking Through the Lens: How Youth Practice Perspective-Shifting Through Filmmaking

Four short films from Spy Hop's "Voices of the West" media-production intensive in Utah showcase how youth filmmakers make multimodal artistic decisions while shifting perspective. The selection spans a documentary on a local restaurant, a parody YouTube tutorial subverting the superhero genre, a film on anxiety from social media, and a nostalgic piece on a community movie theater.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning

Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1332: Listening for Learning in Students’ Art from a Children’s Hospital School

An exhibition of student art from a children's hospital school, accompanying research on integrating arts education into pediatric settings through inclusive, adaptive approaches. The artist's own practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture, and digital fabrication, often dissolving printed images to evoke memory and emerging meaning.

Informal, Community & Out-of-School Learning