Category: Education (page 5)

I am a visual artist and educator.  As a teaching artist I use hands-on visual inquiry, imagination, collaboration and critiquing as a way to engage students more deeply in content, creativity and self-reflection.  I believe that by engaging in visual…

I am a community artist who uses both individual and collaborative art making and mixed mediums to create and facilitate installation, 2D, 3D, interactive sculpture, and fiber based artwork.  I believe by engaging students in creative processes using a wide…

I am a visual artist, primarily working with drawing and painting media.  My studio and en plein air practice is both reactionary and reflective.  I observe the moving external world and bridge it to my internal world of emotions, memories,…

Hello!  My name is Emily Frank, or Miss Frank, Frank, or Frankie to my students.  I am currently one of a few TAs working at the Henderson Inclusion School.  I work with lead teacher Jozeph Zaremba teaching visual arts to…

I use art to help students investigate the world around them and imagine their own worlds. When making art, students use the skills of observation, investigation, imagination, and creation.  I love drawing on eclectic inspirations, ranging from cartoons, to math,…

I identify most strongly as an Art Educator.  As an art teacher I use as many different visual techniques and mediums as possible to help students understand how things work, the process of making, and the world around them.  I…

Tim Archibald was named VSA Massachusetts’ Employee of the Quarter for April – June, 2016. Teaching Artist Tim has been a vital member of the VSA MA family for over 25 years, when he first started teaching music at the…

Teaching Artists (TAs) bring incredibly rich resources and opportunities to inclusive learning settings.  However, they often receive less formal instruction and supports than other educators to meet the wide-ranging needs of their students.  VSA Massachusetts’ COOL Schools Program piloted an…

VSA Massachusetts promotes the involvement of people of all abilities in the cultural life our communities by developing arts-integrated programs in our schools, sponsoring exhibitions and performances by artists of all abilities, and helping families and communities understand and celebrate…

Kathleen has been a teaching artist with the COOL Schools Program for the past three years.  She has provided quality, inclusive visual-arts programs to elementary school students with autism, in general education classrooms, and to high school students with intellectual…