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VAST

Visual Arts as Sources for Teaching

Each summer the Museum offers K–12 teachers of all subject areas the chance to renew their spirit of inquiry as they immerse themselves in the Museum’s collections and explore the special nature of art and its use as a resource in their classrooms.

These courses are recommended for teachers of grades K–12 of all subject areas who would like to become more comfortable looking at and talking about art, and teachers who wish to explore the ways in which art and the Museum’s collections can enrich their classroom studies. Teams of up to four teachers from the same school are encouraged to apply. Enrollment for each course is limited to fifty teachers.

Special lunchtime programs provide teachers with opportunities to meet colleagues in their own subject areas and grade levels and discuss ways of bringing what they learned at VAST back to their classrooms.

Each participant will receive special teaching resources containing reproductions and information on selected works of art in the Museum’s collections, as well as gallery and classroom activities, related articles, and a bibliography.

More information on VAST will be available in February 2010.

VAST is generously supported by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc., the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Comcast Foundation, and the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation.

For more information, please contact Education: School & Teacher Programs by phone at (215) 684-7580, by fax at (215) 236-4063, or by e-mail at .