VSC’s Learning in Art in Culture Teacher Fellowships Program
This fall, local students and teachers of Hyde Park Elementary School (HPE), Lamoille Union Middle School (LUMS), Green Mountain Technical and Career Center (GMTCC) and Johnson Elementary School (JES) have made numerous visits to the studios and Red Mill Gallery shows of VSC’s resident artists and sculptors Ki-Jin Park (Korea), Sookoon Ang (Singapore), Oreen Cohen, Harlan Mack, Jessica Pezalla, and David Purcell; painters Alexis Avlamis (Greece), Dave Kearns, Joelen Mulvaney, Arista Alanis, G. Todd Haun, Jason Farson, Ekua Holmes, Sofia Maldonado (Puerto Rico/Cuba); and printmaker Leonardo Aquinaldo (the Philippines).
In addition to studio visits, students had several hands-on workshops at VSC including: two workshops on differing approaches to collaborative mural-making with Joelen Mulvaney and Sofia Maldonado; and a workshop on Ekphrastic poetry with Ki-Jin’s work as its subject led by VSC Visiting Writer, Sebastian Matthews. 2009 is the third year of VSC’s Learning in Art in Culture Teacher Fellowship Program, which now offers creative revitalization residencies to Vermont English and Visual Art teachers and support to expose their students to the richness of VSC’s international creative community. The 2009 LACP Fellows are Matt Neckers (HPE), Tamra Higgins (LUMS) and Barbara Flack (GMTCC). Below are more pictures:
