The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce that registration is now live for Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy, to be held on February 17, 2017. This workshop will be hosted by the Visual Resources Center, Art Department, Colorado College and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and is open to cultural heritage professionals, the information and educational communities, and to anyone interested in visual culture. Learning to Look, Looking to Learn is one of four workshops being offered in the second year of the VRAF Regional Workshop Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and educational institutions. 

As our culture moves from an oral tradition to a visual one, an increasing emphasis is being placed on developing the visual literacy skills of both educators and students, uniquely positioning those who work with visual media to provide necessary visual literacy training and instruction. This workshop will provide participants with the tools to develop and implement a visual literacy training program. Part one of this workshop will focus on visual literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The afternoon session will focus on ways for participants to apply these pedagogies to their own work and institutions. Participants will discuss and develop ways to implement and evaluate their own visual literacy programs as well as how digital archives, art objects, and other primary sources can be used by staff, students and faculty. 

Learning to Look, Looking to Learn will be taught by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery. Jessica has worked in the field of museum education for more than fifteen years. In that time she has been developing professional development programs in Visual Literacy for a variety of audiences including librarian, teacher, and faculty workshops, and training graduate students as museum educators. In addition, Jessica works with area teachers and faculty, helping them find ways to teach from objects and hone their own observation skills. Prior to Yale, Jessica was the Senior Museum Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She has contributed to publications including The Caring Museum: New Models of Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum,  “Looking to Learn, Learning to Teach” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin and Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture. Jessica received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. She previously instructed Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy at the University of California Berkeley, one of two VRAF Regional Workshops offered during the program’s 2016 pilot year.
 
To register for Learning to Look, Looking to Learn and to learn more about the workshop, visit http://tinyurl.com/gubunxp.  The fee for this day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director,[log in to unmask]. For questions about the venue, please contact Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, Department of Art, Colorado College, [log in to unmask]


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Curator of Visual Resources 
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From: Meghan Rubenstein
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 1:22 PM
Subject: VRAF Regional Visual Literacy Workshop, 2/17/17
 

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce that Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy, will be held on February 17, 2017. This workshop will be hosted by the Visual Resources Center, Art Department, Colorado College and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and is open to cultural heritage professionals, the information and educational communities, and to anyone interested in visual culture. Learning to Look, Looking to Learn is one of four workshops being offered in the second year of the VRAF Regional Workshop Program.  The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued support of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and educational institutions. 

 

Workshop Description: As our culture moves from an oral tradition to a visual one, an increasing emphasis is being placed on developing the visual literacy skills of both educators and students, uniquely positioning those who work with visual media to provide necessary visual literacy training and instruction. This workshop will provide participants with the tools to develop and implement a visual literacy training program. Part one of this workshop will focus on visual literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The afternoon session will focus on ways for participants to apply these pedagogies to their own work and institutions. Participants will discuss and develop ways to implement and evaluate their own visual literacy programs as well as how digital archives, art objects, and other primary sources can be used by staff, students and faculty. 

 

About the Instructor: Learning to Look, Looking to Learn will be taught by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery. Jessica has worked in the field of museum education for more than fifteen years. In that time she has been developing professional development programs in Visual Literacy for a variety of audiences including librarian, teacher, and faculty workshops, and training graduate students as museum educators. In addition, Jessica works with area teachers and faculty, helping them find ways to teach from objects and hone their own observation skills. Prior to Yale, Jessica was the Senior Museum Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She has contributed to publications including The Caring Museum: New Models of Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum,  “Looking to Learn, Learning to Teach” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin and Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture. Jessica received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. She previously instructed Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy at the University of California Berkeley, one of two VRAF Regional Workshops offered during the program’s 2016 pilot year.

 

Registration for Learning to Look, Looking to Learn will open in early December 2016. The fee for this day-long workshop is $125, with a number of partial scholarships being offered by Colorado College. For more information about the workshop, visit http://tiny.cc/workshop-scholarships. If you have questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director, [log in to unmask] For questions about the venue, please contact Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, Department of Art, Colorado College, [log in to unmask]

 

Quick links:

Workshop details http://tiny.cc/vraf_regional_cc

Scholarship information http://tiny.cc/workshop-scholarships


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