Teacher Resources


School Docent Tours 2025

Sign up your class for a fun and educational tour of the exhibits for the entire school year! If transportation funds are low for your school, contact the arts center for financial assistance. Click here to download the Busing Scholarship Application.

View upcoming tours and availability.

Artists explore a broad range of subject matter and imagery. The Board of Directors and professional staff of Crooked Tree Arts Center recommend that all teachers of elementary through high school students preview exhibits at the Arts Center, in person, prior to bringing students through a show.

Youth Art Show - Petoskey 2025

The Annual Youth Art Show celebrates art created by students in the Char-Em ISD and homeschool students in the area. 

Deadline: The deadline to receive your intent to participate and reserve your space is February 7, 2025.

For more information, including important dates and deadlines, please click here.

Young Writers Exposition 2025

The Young Writers Exposition showcases pieces of poetry and prose from elementary, middle, and high school students in Charlevoix and Emmet counties. A team of jurors reads and selects the winning entries, which are then published online in the Petoskey News-Review and on CTAC's website.

Deadline: The submission window is January 14 - March 21, 2025 (deadline extended from March 14)

For more information, including important dates and deadlines, please click here.

Crooked Tree Arts Center Youth Arts Scholarship 2025

CTAC is offering two $2,000 scholarships for graduating high school seniors living in or attending school in Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties and pursuing fields of study in the arts. This includes visual arts, performing arts, theatre, dance, and music. 

 

Deadline: The submission window is January 20 - April 1, 2025 (deadline extended from March 14)

Learn more about the scholarship! 

2025 Professional Development Day: The Art of Nature

In collaboration with Charlevoix-Emmet ISD, Crooked Tree Arts Center - Petoskey is proud to host a professional development day for art & science teachers to explore a variety of impactful methods for fostering inspired and interdisciplinary learning in the studio and classroom. Participants will learn more about the local possibilities of blending science, nature, and art for their classrooms. 

Deadline to register: See Char-Em ISD for their registration deadline. The deadline for homeschool teachers and non-CharEm ISD teachers is Thursday, April 10, 2025. 

Learn more and register here.

 

Inspired by the Wild: A Visual Storytelling Workshop, offered by author and illustrator, Lindsay Moore

How do you tell a story that matters? This workshop will focus on introducing some of the tools illustrators and graphic novelists use to bring clarity to a story, and capture the reader’s attention and heart. Drawing on inspiration from the natural world, students will have the opportunity to apply professional methods to their own work-in-progress pieces with a writing prompt provided in advance of the workshop, as well as follow-up material.

This free workshop, offered as part of "Stories Told" a new community project presented by Crooked Tree Arts Center, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, and Petoskey District Library, designed to help students "discover their voices",  is available to schools in the following districts:

  • Beaver Island Community School 
  • Boyne Falls Public School 
  • Inland Lakes School District 
  • Pellston Public Schools 
  • Cheboygan Area Schools 
  • CharEm

Schools can sign up here: