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Meet the Teaching Artist: Liz Buchanan
My aim is to provide students with an exciting, meaningful and memorable learning experience through singing, movement and other musical activities. I believe that music is the best way to teach certain pre-reading skills such as phonological awareness. Songs also…
Boston Globe Subscribers – Did You Receive a Silver Envelope? Consider Giving to VSA Massachusetts!
The Boston Globe just launched . Subscribers received silver envelopes containing gift vouchers to name their favorite Massachusetts nonprofit. With the vouchers, the Globe will give the top nonprofits free ad space at no cost to the nonprofit or to…
Free VSA Webinar – Drama & Universal Design for Learning
Description: A practical, real-world, and highly interactive look at drama and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), the natural connection between them, and how to make your drama work more UDL. This session is for teaching artists, drama specialists, classroom teachers,…
Meet the Intern: Claudine Fernandez
What are your favorite pastimes? “I love reading for leisure, playing the keyboards and jamming with my band and friends.” If you could be a cartoon character, who would you be? “Maggie Simpson. She…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Kathleen McNamara
My creative endeavors as an art teacher provide a visual arts based approach to general education that helps students build connections to academics and explore materials to encourage their uninhibited imaginations. I believe students should feel inspiration, passion and discovery…
Kennedy Center Announces Winter 2014 Artist Opportunities
The VSA and Accessibility Office at the Kennedy Center put together this list of performing and visual arts opportunities. Deadline: January 31, 2014 The Mitchell Gallery in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, presents a national juried exhibition, Less is More. It…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Sarah Sharp
My work as a teaching visual artist in a school setting is influential to all students. I aim to teach students the basics of art in the world around them as well as teaching students problem solving skills and creative…
Critter Day – Creature Teachers, ASL-Interpreted at Boston Children’s Museum
You never know what to expect when Rick and the come to town. Learn about exotic animals like toucans and coatimundis. Get to know familiar creatures like groundhogs and flying squirrels. January 18, 2014 11:15 am and 12:15 pm ASL-Interpreted…
Parkolation Portfolio Show
Come meet Student Designers as they share their work from the Fall Semester with VSA MA Teaching Artist at . Student made models of Parklets will be on display in the and the students will be available to talk about…
A.R.T. Announces 2014 ASL and Audio Described Performances
(A.R.T.) has scheduled American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performances and Audio Described performances for the 2014 season at the Loeb Drama Center. The schedule is as follows: ASL Interpreted: January 7, 2014 7:30pm and Jan. 12, 2014 2:00pm Audio Described:…
Meet the Teaching Artist: Wilhelmina Peragine
As a teaching artist, I aim to help young people develop a greater sense of their own agency, an increased ability to think from multiple perspectives and a flourishing love of learning. I believe that integrating visual arts learning into…