VCFA Graduate Studies in Art & Design Education

05/05/2021

THERE IS STILL SPACE AVAILABLE in our remote professional development opportunities for art educators and artists this summer. The series will focus on the role of the arts as a form of leadership for restoring our communities in the classroom and beyond. Discounted tuition for the full series (56 contact hours)=$500, or individual class options available.

Learn more about all of the offerings at the link below!

On July 19, 22, 26 & 29, from 1–4 pm EDT join Aaron Knochel in a Participatory Community Design and Radical Imagination Workshop.

This workshop will explore speculative design practice utilizing participatory community design methods, design thinking, and digital fabrication techniques to engage the radical potential of imagination in restoring community and belonging. Acts of distributed leadership, place making, and social justice will guide conceptions of shared purpose and collective care. Participants will gain hands-on skills in digital fabrication and community asset mapping to inspire new project work and curriculum appropriate to arts and arts-integrated classrooms.
(20 Contact Hours—12 hrs in class/8 hrs self-study)

https://vcfa.edu/center-for-arts-social-justice-at-vcfa/professional-development-in-art-design-ed/summer-2021-prof-dev-series/

04/30/2021

ART TEACHERS! VCFA is offering some amazing professional development opportunities this summer, for educators and artists who want to develop a strong social justice theme in their teaching practice and home communities. These remote classes can be taken individually or as a series.

Learn more about all of the offerings at the link below!

On June 22nd, June 29th & July 6, from 6–9 pm EDT join faculty William Estrada, for Posters, Community, and Curriculum.

Participants will explore the creation and use of posters as civic engagement and advocacy tools. We will learn to analyze, interpret, and evaluate visual images that focus on social justice themes, with a focus on 3rd-12th grade learners. Participants will explore the use of art as a tool for education and curriculum development.
(15 Contact Hours—9 hrs in class/6 hrs self-study)

https://vcfa.edu/center-for-arts-social-justice-at-vcfa/professional-development-in-art-design-ed/summer-2021-prof-dev-series/

04/26/2021

ATTENTION EDUCATORS! VCFA has some incredible professional development opportunities available this summer. Our 2021 series will focus on the role of the arts as a form of leadership for restoring our communities in the classroom and beyond.

Learn more about all of the offerings at the link in our bio!

July 12 & 15, 2021 from 1–3 pm ET
Re-envisioning Curriculum with the Studio Thinking Framework
Faculty: Dr. Kimberly Sheridan

Using the Studio Thinking Framework as a tool to revisit and reimagine your curriculum, focusing on the artistic habits of mind you want students to develop in your class. Through activities we’ll work to see what habits of mind you are already encouraging and how to make them more explicit for students. We’ll consider how to use the framework to meaningfully assess student learning.

02/15/2021

Join us this summer and reinvigorate your craft with the virtual workshop series, “Restorative Community Building Through Art”. Workshops will focus on the role of the arts as a form of leadership for restoring our communities in the classroom and beyond. Workshop descriptions and registration at link in bio.

06/30/2020

Remote residency doesn’t mean we won’t be making art together this summer- just sent art kits around the country to our soon to be grads! @ Vermont College of Fine Arts

06/01/2020

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Check out the College Art Association list of resources (link in their bio). And please feel free to add resources you recommend in the comments! .
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For the educators, artists, scholars and advocates in our community—a list of resources intended specifically for white people to begin or deepen anti-racism work. It includes social media accounts to follow, books, films, and podcasts. Tap the link in our bio to see the full list, or begin by following these accounts here on IG: ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀
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⁠⁠‣ Audre Lorde Project:
⁠‣ Black Women’s Blueprint:
⁠‣ Color Of Change:
⁠‣ Colorlines:
⁠‣ The Conscious Kid:
⁠‣ Equal Justice Initiative (EJI):
⁠‣ Families Belong Together:
⁠‣ The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights:
⁠‣ MPowerChange:
⁠‣ Muslim Girl:
⁠‣ NAACP:
⁠‣ National Domestic Workers Alliance:
⁠‣ RAICES:
⁠‣ Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ):
⁠‣ SisterSong:
⁠‣ United We Dream:

05/20/2020

Join VCFA Art & Design Education’s fabulous faculty for Virtual Professional Development this summer! . https://vcfa.edu/professional-development-in-ade/

12/19/2019

https://hyperallergic.com/533564/art-as-activism-and-social-justice-at-vermont-college-of-fine-arts/

Join VCFA’s MA in Art & Design Education for their one-year, low-residency program designed to fit with your work as a preK–12 art educator.

12/02/2019

For inspiration-check out VCFA Art & Design Education’s founding faculty Kim Cosier’s commentary in Studies in Art Education and images from her group in the November issue of Art Education

11/22/2019

Art Ed Conferences are so fun! People are cheerful and there are little bits of color everywhere... We’re at NYSATA in Binghamton. If you’re at the conference stop by the VCFA booth Saturday morning and say hello!

09/28/2019

So good to see and at conference today. Hope to see you at the presentation of capstone project ROOM FOR MORE: ART TEACHERS AND LGBTQ+-INCLUSIVE SPACES at the on Saturday @ Lake Morey Resort

09/24/2019

Public pedagogy is something we think about a lot. Bringing community together with art is a form of activism