The Art of
Collaboration
Project Design Lab
JUN 24-26 / OCT 2 / NOV 6
Creative Campus at Goddard / Plainfield, Vermont
Explore the power of collaborative art-making to nurture a classroom culture of respect and community.
An artist collective is an ancient practice, where collaboration can thrive by sharing resources, ideas, and creative risk-taking under a common vision.
​​This course is inspired by that practice, bringing K-12 visual art teachers together who want to explore the power of creative collaboration, expand their practice, experiment with media, and experience and design collaborative art-making projects with colleagues.
Through a series of hands-on workshops, participants will explore a variety of 2D and 3D techniques.
Working alongside fellow art educators, you will create artwork that is both personal and collaborative, and design a collaborative project for implementing in your school.
You will leave with practical tools, fresh inspiration, and ideas to strengthen your classroom's culture of collaboration and respect.
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Who Should Attend?
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K-12 Visual Art Educators
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Attend solo or with a school team
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What To Expect
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Expand your 2D and 3D art making techniques
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Learn with and from art teacher colleagues
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Create personal and collaborative work
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Design a project that strengthens your student's respect and empathy toward each other
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Play and find joy in the process of making art together
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Have fun – guaranteed!​
Workshops
Encaustic Collage
An immersive exploration of the tactile world of wax and mixed media, utilizing fume-free, non-toxic, sustainable materials that are safe and practical for your classroom. Master techniques such as luminous layering, image embedding, and creating complex surface textures, all while exploring the unique interplay of transparency and depth.
Julian Bradshaw
Course & Workshop Leader​
Julian is a passionate artist and educator with over 30 years of experience as a high school art teacher. ​
Paper Mache Multidimensional Forms
Explore armature building using cardboard, paper, foil, tape, and paper mache to design and create a multidimensional form. This form will serve as an individual component of a larger collaborative work we will create together, incorporating work created in the other workshops.
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.​​​
Integrating Writing, Photography, and Mixed Media
Create mixed-media artwork that fuses together written and visual storytelling. Guided journaling, photos on your phone (or other device) that interpret emerging themes, printing and transforming images by layering on various media techniques, all combine to create powerful personal and collective visual storytelling.
Keri-Anne Lesure
Workshop Leader​
Keri-Anne has worked as an art teacher at Essex High School for 20 years. A large part of her teaching philosophy is focused around the importance of building community in the classroom and creating a safe environment for students to take artistic risk. ​​​
Artists’ Books
Building on the theme of collaboration and connection within an artist community, we will create two handmade book structures. One book will showcase a collection of your work from this course, and the other will feature “trading cards” from fellow artists in the class.
Erika White
Workshop Leader​
Erika is a Senior Lecturer and the Art Education Coordinator at the University of Vermont. She taught for fifteen years as a public school art teacher in Shelburne, Vermont; an experience that deeply informs her current work, which involves training future educators through courses such as Curriculum and Practicum in Elementary Art. ​​​
The Details
The Art of Collaboration
June 24-26 / October 2 / November 6
9 am to 4 pm
Tuition
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$2,100 - Three graduate credits
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$1,850 - Certificate of Participation for 40 hours relicensing credits​
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$100 late registration fee after May 1.
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Tuition includes lodging/breakfast (optional), lunch, and snacks. Lodging is available on the Creative Campus in air conditioned private dorm rooms. There is no reduction in tuition if you do not stay overnight.
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Attend Solo or as a Team
Teams are encouraged to design a project together. Teams can be composed of any combination of educators (classroom teachers, councilors, paras, special educators, staff, administrators) and can be from the same grades and content areas, or mixed.
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Teaching Artist Residency - OPTIONAL
Teaching artist residencies are optional. If you would like information on selecting and scheduling a teaching artist to co-lead with you the implementation of your project, please complete the PDL Questions Form and we'll be in touch.​
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Project Snapshots
See examples of previous projects created at the Project Design Lab here.
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Questions?
Complete the PDL Questions Form and we'll be back in touch soon.
We invite you to let us know about specific accommodations you may need to participate in the Project Design Lab when completing your Registration Form, and we will make every effort to honor your request.