2020

Since the pivot to remote learning and instruction in March 2020, VAPAE and the Hammer Museum continued to provide professional development opportunities for classroom teachers and arts educators. In Summer 2020, Teaching for Social Change through Art: Strategies for Enhancing Media Literacy in 2020 was offered as a three-day professional development. Please see past recordings of this event below:

Session 1—Monday, July 27
Strategies for Integrating Media Literacy and the Arts
UCLA professor Jeff Share provides an overview of media literacy, museum educators share strategies for analyzing art and media, and teaching artist Felix Quintana demonstrates a digital art activity that juxtaposes personal archives and popular media.

Session 2—Wednesday, July 29
Responding to Current Events through Theatre and Literary Arts
Poet, performer, and librettist Douglas Kearney discusses his practice, museum educator Tara Burns shares interactive strategies for engaging with art, and teaching artist Kimiko Warner-Turner leads a performance workshop grounded in the concept of communal dreaming in an unjust world.