myArt
myTeaching
mySelf
Spring 2026
Nourish Your Creative Self to Revitalize Your Teaching Practice
This course is for K-12 art teachers who want to explore and grow their artistic practice as a pathway to expand and revitalize their teaching practice.
Through art-making workshops and individual asynchronous work, you will explore your creative self, make art with colleagues and on your own, and strengthen your teaching practice with art making and project planning skills.
What To Expect
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Expand your art-making skills through hands-on workshops with master teaching artists.
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Explore the creativity within yourself to fuel your teaching practice.
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Develop tools and techniques to nurture your personal well-being and artistic identity, and how to use those skills to strengthen the well-being and creativity of your students.
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Build relationships with a cohort of art-teacher colleagues in a supportive and creative environment.
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Have fun – guaranteed!​
Workshops
Launching Your Creative Journey
In the first workshop, you will create a handmade journal and decorative papers to serve as a personal record of your process throughout the course. You will learn handmade bookbinding and decorative paper techniques, such as paste paper, suminagashi, and gelli printing. Each week, you will complete creative exercises and reflective prompts in your handmade journal that deepen self-awareness, dissolve creative blocks, and help you reconnect with your inner artistic voice to strengthen your teaching practice. By the end of the course, you will have a rich visual and written record of your journey and new strategies to inspire both your own artmaking and your students’ creative growth.
Julian Bradshaw
Workshop Leader​
Julian is a passionate artist and educator with over 30 years of experience as a high school art teacher. ​
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Conceal & Reveal
Your Artist Identity with Fiber
Explore fiber, threads, and more in this hands-on workshop. Explore your artistic identity as you create a mixed media representation of your creative self in this moment of time. What do you choose to conceal and/or reveal? You will learn about some past and present fiber artists and have an opportunity to play with assorted fiber media to create a self portrait of your artistic self.
Tina Logan
Workshop Leader​
Tina has 38 years of experience teaching art to all ages, with 30 of those years teaching art in the Essex Westford School district.
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Reclaimed Reflections
on Your Teacher Identity
In this engaging and imaginative workshop, you will go beyond the traditional flat surface to construct a three-dimensional self-portrait of your teacher identity. Using an assortment of 3D shapes and reclaimed materials, you will explore the idea of identity through abstraction and physical form. This is not about creating a photorealistic likeness, but rather building a representation of yourself that captures your essence – as an educator and as an individual.
Judy Klima
Course & Workshop Leader​
Judy has been teaching for over 28 years across the spectrum of ages ranging from Pre-K to adults, focusing on middle school for the past six years.
The Details
myArt myTeaching mySelf
Spring Semester 2026
Maple Street Art Space, Essex Junction, VT
Virtual sessions on Zoom
Tuition & Schedule
Both sections of the course (3 grad credits/45 hours recertification credits, or 30 hours of recertification credit) share the in-person schedule and journaling. The 3-credit course includes more individual, virtual, and asynchronous work. Please read the syllabus for details on course goals, objectives, assignments, and grading.
$1,850 - 3 graduate credits or Certificate of Participation for 45 hours relicensing credits.
Syllabus - PLEASE READ
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3 in-person workshops - Fridays FEB 6, MAR 13, APR 3 - 9:00 am to 4:00 pm - Maple Street Art Space, Essex Junction
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3 virtual sessions - Tuesday, JAN 27 - 3:30-4:45 pm; plus two more dates in MAR & APR to be confirmed by the group
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Independent journaling - asynchronous
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Independent art making - asynchronous
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Culminating event: group art show and dinner - date in April TBD by the group
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$1,450 - Certificate of Participation for 30 hours relicensing credits.
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3 in-person workshops - Fridays FEB 6, MAR 13, APR 3 - 9:00 to 4:00 pm - Maple Street Art Space, Essex Junction
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1 virtual session - Tuesday, JAN 27 - 3:30-4:45 pm
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Independent journaling - asynchronous ​
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​​Questions?
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We invite you to let us know about specific accommodations you may need to participate in this course when completing the registration form, and we will make every effort to honor your request.