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  • Artist Market at the 2015 Boston Abilities Expo

    Posted Wednesday September 09 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Flower painting by Cristina Powell

    VSA is proud to sponsor the Artist Market at the 2015 Boston Abilities Expo.

    Visit the Market to meet VSA artists and see a unique selection of beautiful fine art and crafts- including prints, paintings, textiles, and jewelry.

    The expo and market are free to the public.  Please join us!

    September 18-20, 2015
    Boston Convention and Exhibition Center/Hall C
    415 Summer Street, Boston, 02210
    Friday and Saturday- 11 am to 5pm
    Sunday- 11 am to 4 pm



    What Artists Knead

    Posted Monday August 24 2015 at 09:48 am

    Kneading Bread

    A series of breadmaking parties for artists curated by Shaw Pong Liu, musician and artist-ethnographer for Boston Creates, Boston's cultural planning initiative.

    Over 1,000 people have participated in over 90 community conversations for Boston Creates, since the community engagement stage began in June 2015.  Most of these conversations have been neighborhood-based. Shaw Pong seeks to connect more voices to the planning process.

    Please RSVP by clicking below the date of the breadmaking you'd like to attend.

    Friday, August 28, 6pm-8pm
    Public Art Salon @ the Cornerstone (corner of Washington and Bowdoin), Dorchester** with guest chef Fulani Haynes, Carribean Salad demo

    Saturday, August 29, 10am-12pm
    Hubbard St (by Stonybrook station), Jamaica Plain

    Sunday, August 30, 5pm-7pm
    The Riverbank, Mattapan**

    Monday, August 31, 6pm-8pm
    Ashfield Street, Roslindale

    **Outdoor venue, check WhatArtistsKnead.org for weather updates.



    VSA Webinar: Beyond the Basics of Dance Education for Students with Disabilities

    Posted Tuesday August 18 2015 at 06:24 am

    Webinar

    Description: This Webinar synthesizes emerging research and classroom experience delivering strategies to develop practice, pedagogy, and policy in teaching dance to students with disabilities. We will move past inclusion basics and include ground-breaking work from disability dance leaders who "put the disability first", challenging and expanding traditional constructs of dance teaching and artistry.

    Attendees will learn how to:
    • Attend to wide-ranging abilities of individual students while maintaining or elevating the integrity of the group or class experience.
    • Deliver high-level arts learning while building students’ behavioral, cognitive, and social skills capacity.
    • Challenge and change the culture of schools and communities that may not recognize the exceptional and essential value of inclusive arts learning.
    • Create and achieve specific personal and professional goals to expand the culture of dance learning and artistry.

    When: Tuesday August 25, 2015 from 3-4pm EDT

    More information and registration.