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"Looking back on this a couple months later after having had subsequent time to practice at my own institution I realize even more how much I gained from the Institute...Over all, this was one of the most valuable professional development experiences that I have had and I feel fortunate that I was able to have this opportunity."

- participant, High Museum Institute, 2002

 

2007 Institutes

Jump Starting Visual Literacy:
ArtArt, Museums, and Learning to Look

VUE Institutes offer an introduction to VTS and the research and theory on which it is based—the product of thirty years of data collection by cognitive psychologist Abigail Housen. Participants will observe, analyze and practice VTS with coaching, continuously reflecting on the relationship of theory to practice.

VUE Institutes involve a great deal of discussion. Participants are asked to read a set of materials before arrival. Institutes run from 10 am to 5pm each day, except the final day, which ends at 1 pm. 

This workshop is ideal for those with little or no VTS experience or for those who want a refresher.

This Institute is strongly recommended as a prerequisite for Trainer Training.

*The Institute held in Seattle has been approved for credit and/or clock hours through Seattle Pacific University. (CRN #T1318A ART 5247: 2 credits, $43.00 per credit. CRN #T1318B CEU 3146: 2 units, $30.00 flat.) Please bring check or credit card for SPU payment; all forms will be available.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration fee: $500 per person, $50 discount per person for groups of 2 or more from the same organization - each participant may pay separately. $100 nonrefundable deposit required from all participants.

For mail-in registration, download registration form.

Check back soon for newly-scheduled Institutes.

 

Refund Policy: The $100 down payment is non-refundable. Until 1 week before the start of the Institute, we can refund any payments over the $100. After that point, all payments are non-refundable. If the original payment was made through PayPal, we can refund the payment in full through PayPal within 60 days. After 60 days, we can refund the payment through PayPal minus a transaction fee (2.9% of the total amount + $0.30). We can refund a PayPal payment with a check, but will deduct the PayPal transaction fee (2.9% of the total amount + $0.30) from the refund. If the original payment was made by check, we can refund the payment in full by check.

 

Past VUE Institutes:

 

    2007
  • Jumpstarting Visual Literacy:
    Art, Museums and Learning to Look
    Hosted by the Seattle Art Museum
    Seattle, WA
    June 4-8, 2007

    Jumpstarting VIsual Literacy:
    Art, Museums and Learning to Look
    Hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Boston, MA
    June 18-21, 2007

    • 2006
  • Jumpstarting Visual Literacy: VTS Theory & Practice
    Hosted by the Museum of the City of New York
    June 26-29, 2006
    See agenda
    • 2005
  • VTS Best Practices: Museum & School Partnerships
     Hosted by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
    Saratoga Springs, NY
    April 25-28, 2005
  • Jumpstarting Visual Literacy: VTS Theory & Practice
    Hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    June 13-16, 2005.
    2004
  • VTS for Museum Docents
    Hosted by The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
    Pasadena, California
    April 26 - April 29, 2004
  • Introduction to VTS
    Hosted by the Everson Museum of Art
    Syracuse, New York
    June 21-22, 2004
  • VTS and School Programs
     Hosted by the Everson Museum of Art
    Syracuse, New York
    June 23-24, 2004

    2003
  • Housen and the Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the Wolfsonian Museum, the Lowe Art Museum,
    and the Miami Art Museum
    January 27-30, 2003
  • Addressing the Needs of Adult Museum Visitors
    Hosted by the UCLA Hammer Museum,
    the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
    and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    February 18 - 21, 2003
  • VTS and Museum-School Partnerships
    Hosted by the Terra Museum of American Art,
    the Art Institute of Chicago,
    and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
    April 28 - May 1, 2003
  • Housen and the Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
    June 10 - 13, 2003

    2002
  • Housen and Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the High Museum of Art
    Atlanta, GA
    March 4-7, 2002
  • Housen and Visual Thinking Strategies
    Institute of American Indian Arts
    Santa Fe, NM
    April 22 - 25, 2002
  • Housen and Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the Henry Art Gallery,
    University of Washington, Seattle
    June 18 - June 21, 2002

    2001
  • What's Going on in this Picture:
    An Introduction to Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the National Gallery of Art
    Washington, DC
    May 15-18, 2001
  • What's Going on in this Picture:
    An Introduction to Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the Museum of Photographic Arts
    San Diego, CA
    June 18 - 21, 2001

    2000
  • Visual Thinking Strategies:
    An Introductory Workshop for Docents
    Hosted by the Oakland Museum of California
    June 19, 2000
  • Writing and the Needs of Beginner Viewers
    Hosted by the Detroit Institute of Arts
    May 22 - 25, 2000
  • Teaching the Visual Thinking Strategies
    Hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    June 26 - 29, 2000

    1999
  • Writing and the Needs of Beginner Viewers
    Hosted by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
    June 29-July 2, 1999
  • Teaching and the Needs of Beginner Viewers
    Hosted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
    June 22-25, 1999

    1998
  • Visual Thinking Strategies:
    Building School-Museum Partnerships
    Hosted by the Dallas Museum of Art
    July 20-24, 1998

    1997
  • Docent Training Strategies
    Hosted by the New School, New York City
    June 23-24, 1997
  • Meeting the Needs of Beginner Viewers
    Hosted by the New School, New York City
    June 25-27, 1997
  • Meeting the Needs of Beginner Viewers
    Hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    July 7-11, 1997

    1996
    (under organization name D’art)
  • Museum Education I:
    Introduction to the Beginner Viewer
    New York City
    July 8-11, 1996
  • Museum Education III
    New York City
    July 22-23, 1996
  • Teacher and Docent Training
    New York City
    July 24-27, 1996


    For more information about Institutes, please contact Stephanie Hughes (aanderson@vue.org).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected list of past Institute participants' organizations:

Alabama

  • Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, Tuscaloosa

Arkansas

  • Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville

California

  • ACCESS Community Arts & Education, Los Angeles
  • At Large/Grand Lake Montessori, Oakland
  • Arts and Humanities Academy, Berkeley High School
  • California Center for the Arts, Escondido
  • Community Artreach Program, San Francisco
  • Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael
  • Family Medicine Residency; White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
  • The Haggin Museum, Stockton
  • Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
  • The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
  • Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Michael Martin Galleries Foundation, San Francisco
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  • Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
  • Oakland Museum of California
  • Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
  • Palm Springs Desert Museum
  • San Diego State University
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • San Jose Museum of Art
  • The Sequoyah School, Pasadena
  • Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
  • Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara
  • University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Connecticut

  • The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
  • Bruce Museum of Arts & Science, Greenwich
  • Connecticut Historical Society Museum, Hartford
  • East School, New Canaan
  • Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan
  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Florida

  • Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art
  • Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
  • The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami Beach

Georgia

  • Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Illinois

  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago
  • Marwen, Chicago
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • Oriental Institute , University of Chicago
  • Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Illinois, Urbana

Indiana

  • Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • Indianapolis School District

Iowa

  • Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College

Massachussets

  • The Art Complex Museum
  • Boston University
  • Danforth Museum of Art, Farmingham
  • Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst
  • Fay School, Southborough
  • Harvard University Art Museums
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
  • National Arts & Learning Collaborative, Masschusetts Alliance for Arts Education, Natick
  • Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
  • South Shore Art Center, Cohasset
  • Springfield Library and Museums
  • Trinity Church, Boston

Maryland

  • Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Michigan

  • Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Grand Rapids Art Museum
  • Lansing Public Schools
  • Muskegon Museum of Art
  • William Bonifas Arts Center, Escanaba

Minnesota

  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley

Missouri

  • Blue Springs School District, Blue Springs

Montana

  • Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

Nebraska

  • Lincoln Public Schools
  • Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney

Nevada

  • Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

New Hampshire

  • Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover

New Jersey

  • Montclair Art Museum
  • Storytelling Arts, Inc., Princeton

New Mexico

  • Georgia O' Keefe Museum, Santa Fe
  • The Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs
  • Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe
  • Santa Fe Public Schools
  • SITE Santa Fe
  • Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe

New York

  • Albany Institute of History & Art
  • Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
  • Bronx Museum of the Arts
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Bardavon Theater, Stone Ridge
  • Buffalo Board of Education
  • Center for Architecture Foundation, NYC
  • Coalition of Arts Providers for Children, Buffalo
  • Cool Culture, NYC
  • Covent of the Sacred Heart, NYC
  • Dahesh Museum of Art, NYC
  • Dreamyard, NYC
  • Eastern Suffolk BOCES
  • Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany
  • Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
  • Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepise
  • Henry Street Settlement, Abrams Art Center, NYC
  • Hunter College, City University of New York
  • Learning to Look, NYC
  • Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • National Academy Museum, NYC
  • National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs
  • Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, Tupper Lake
  • Neuberger Museum of Art, State University NY, Purchase
  • The New York Botanical Garden, NYC
  • New York City Public Schools
  • NY State Department of Education, Albany
  • NY State Office of General Services, Albany
  • The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton
  • Queens Public Library, NYC
  • The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University
  • Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton
  • Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning
  • Rubin Museum of Art, NYC
  • Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Golden Bridge
  • Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
  • Thomas O'Brien Academy, Albany
  • Wave Hill, NYC

North Carolina

  • Guilford College Art Gallery, Greensboro
  • North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ohio

  • McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University
  • Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus

Oregon

  • Portland Children's Museum
  • University of Puget Sound, Dept. of Art History
  • Young Audiences, Portland

Pennsylania

  • Erie Art Museum
  • Fort Ligonier Museum, Ligonier
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
  • Milton Hershey School, Hershey
  • Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

South Carolina

  • Greenville County Museum of Art

South Dakota

  • South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings

Tennessee

  • Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Texas

  • O4 Arts Foundation, San Antonio
  • Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
  • Dallas Contemporary
  • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
  • San Antonio Independent School District
  • San Antonio Museum of Art
  • Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art, Fort Worth
  • Stark Museum of Art, Orange
  • University of Texas, Austin

Utah

  • Salt Lake Art Center

Washington

  • Assumption St. Bridget School, Seattle
  • Concrete Elementary, Concrete
  • Cornish College of the Arts
  • Frye Art Museum, Seattle
  • The Island School, Kingston
  • Leschi Music Partnership/Seattle Music Parters, Seattle
  • Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond
  • Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner
  • Roosevelt High School, Seattle
  • Seattle Art Museum
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum
  • Seattle University
  • St. Benedict School, Seattle
  • Tacoma Art Museum
  • University Child Development School, Seattle
  • West Woodland Elementary and Salmon Bay School, Seattle

Washington, DC

  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute
  • George Washington University
  • Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  • Nationally Gallery of Art
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts

Wyoming

  • Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper

International

  • Asociation Accion-Arte, Costa Rica Asociation Accion-Arte, Costa Rica
  • Heptad Education, Seoul, Korea
  • Rehabilitation Clinic, Amsterdam
  • University of Tsukuba, Institute of Art and Design, Japan

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