Description

Join the Audain School of Art & Design’s Professional Development Workshop Series for Teachers and gain hands-on, practical project ideas from some of Arts Umbrella’s leading Art & Design instructors. You’ll also hear from Allison Yasukawa, Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, in a session titled Creative Concepts, where she’ll explore the essential skills students need beyond talent and technical ability. Designed with high school art and design educators in mind, these workshops are open to teachers at all grade levels who want to inspire creativity and support students’ artistic growth. Each day in this professional development series offers a unique focus on a key area of creative practice. Participants can register for individual workshops or attend the full series.Each workshop day runs from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM with 1 hour for lunch.Cost is $99.00 per person, lunch not included.
Part 1. Creative Concepts WorkshopStudio 30710:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Risk Taking in the ClassroomLed by: Allison Yasukawa
What does it mean to take a creative risk? This workshop will explore how we teach the essential practice of risk-taking in art and design. What does risk look like? Why is it important? How do we create permissions for risk in our classrooms?
Allison Yasukawa is an interdisciplinary maker and deep language nerd. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts and an MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. As both an artist and educator, Allison is invested in what communication scholar Joanne Gilbert calls "heckling the status quo.” She has developed arts-based English language programs and taught at art and design schools including the California Institute of the Arts, the California College of the Arts, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has presented workshops internationally on art-making and language-making in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast; and Changsha, China and is working on a book about language and/as creative practice. Allison is an Associate Professor in Foundation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and lives in Vancouver on the unceded, traditional territories of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), S?wx_wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and s?l?ilw??ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Part 2. Art & Design Project WorkshopStudio 3071:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Nature Tableau: In the EarthLed by: Amelia Butcher
In this hands-on clay workshop, Amelia will walk you through a lesson designed for both elementary and senior students and share practical tips and techniques for managing materials and teaching clay techniques.
Amelia Butcher is a British Columbia-based visual artist with a sculptural and drawing practice centered in illustrated clay. She graduated from Emily Carr University, Vancouver, in 2013 and is a founding member of the Dusty Babes Collective. Since 2015 she has lived and worked out of their communal studio, built by the late great Don Hutchinson, in Surrey, BC, on the traditional territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Stó:lo, W_SÁNEC, and Kwantlen First Nations. She has exhibited and taught widely, including a 2020 solo show Sister Worm at the Seymour Art Gallery.
Part 3 - Emily Carr University of Art + Design – Short Presentation and Q&AStudio 4023:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Led by: ECU Student Recruitment & AdmissionsA staff member from the ECU Recruitment & Admissions team will be on hand give a short presentation on a variety of topics including portfolio guidelines, choosing programs, student life, and more.

Discipline Code:

AD.INT

Location

Studio 307 at Granville Island, 1400 Johnston St

Instructor

Guest Artist