Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn
VRAF Regional Workshop
University of California Berkeley
February 26th, 2016
Session 1: 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Berkeley Art Museum
Session 2: 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m., Visual Resources Center, 308A Doe Library
The Visual Resources Association Foundation is pleased to announce that Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn
will be held at University of California Berkeley on February 26th,
2016, one of two workshops being offered in the first year of the VRAF
Regional Workshop Program. This workshop will be hosted by the Visual
Resources Center in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley, and is
open to image management professionals, image users, and the broader
information and educational community. The VRAF is grateful to the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their generous support of this new
opportunity.
Part one of this workshop will focus on visual
literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at the
new Berkeley Art Museum. In part two of the workshop, participants will
discuss and develop ways to implement their own visual literacy program
at their institutions, and learn how staff, students and faculty can use
digital archives, art objects, and other primary sources in developing
visual literacy skills.
Instructor
Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn
will be taught by Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior
Associate Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art
Gallery. During her fifteen years in the field of museum education,
Jessica has developed training programs in visual literacy for
information professionals, teachers, faculty, and students. To learn
more about Jessica and the workshop, please visit:http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/projects/visual_literacy_regional_workshop/
Registration
Registration for Visual Literacy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn is now open. Click the workshop link above for more information on registration. The fee for the workshop is $75 for
either the morning or afternoon session, or $125 for the full day.
If
you have questions about registration, feel free to contact Betha
Whitlow, VRAF Director, [log in to unmask] For questions about the University of California Berkeley venue, please contact Lynn Cunningham, Curator of Visual Resources, [log in to unmask].
