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Andrew Ramsammy named interim president of Vermont College of Fine Arts - Editor and Publisher
Andrew Ramsammy is a highly accomplished creative professional and advocate who has long demonstrated his dedication to VCFA’s mission, having served on its board since 2021. He is a multiple Emmy Award winner with more than 25 years of global experience in creative, content, and production, and has committed much of his career to expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion within the field of journalism.
Decolonizing Design in Teaching and Practice at Vermont College of Fine Arts
Decolonizing design means challenging the colonial histories that affect our training and practice, and the stories that our designs tell. We can create space for new perspectives and identities by breaking down historical ways of seeing, as VCFA Graphic Design faculty members Silas Munro and Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton show in their collaborative book Black Design in America, forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2023.
Art and Research Integral for MFA Students at Vermont College of Fine Arts
At the VCFA MFA in Visual Art program, students develop a research-based art practice, merging visual culture research and studio work. Under the guidance of a faculty advisor, students incorporate their historical, sociopolitical, critical, and aesthetic inquiries with their studio work, a grounding that affirms artists participate in and impact their communities and beyond.
Vermont College of Fine Arts’s MFA in Graphic Design Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
By Vic Rodriguez Tang (’22) In 2011, Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) created the first low-residency MFA in Graphic Design. Founding faculty member and Academic Dean Matthew Monk likens the program’s conception to heading into uncharted territory: “An educational model and pedagogical approach like ours had never been attempted in graphic design education.” But the faculty believed that a student-centered, inquiry-based program in graphic design could thrive.
Arab-Jewish violence in Israel threatens coexistence. My neighbors and I won't give in.
ACRE, Israel — In my early 50s, nearly 30 years after I moved to Israel from Ohio, I bought the home of no one’s dreams: a dilapidated 300-year-old Ottoman ruin in the ancient Mediterrean city of Acre filled with an entire neighborhood’s junk and two live horses. My sons looked at one another and said, “Well, there goes our inheritance.” I was buoyed by the extraordinary outpouring of support and love and encouragement from around the world and — most notably — from my Arab friends and neighbors.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Creates Meaningful Connections for MFA Students
Amy Bernard, alumnx '21 The innovative spirit of the MFA in Visual Art program at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is reflected in the ongoing support of its vibrant alumnx network.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Honors Cheryl D. Miller, Tireless Advocate for Black Graphic Designers
Cheryl D. Miller Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is excited to announce the conferral of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to Cheryl D. Miller. The public ceremony honoring Miller’s life and work will be live-streamed on February 16 at 6:30pm EST. Miller is a designer, author, and theologian best known for her DEI advocacy for Black graphic designers.
Honoring Cheryl D. Miller, Tireless Advocate Of Black Graphic Designers
MONTPELIER, Vt., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vermont College of Fine Arts is excited to announce the conferral of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to Cheryl D. Miller. The public ceremony honoring Miller's life and work will be live streamed on February 16 at 6:30 pm EST. Cheryl D. Miller is a designer, author, and theologian best known for her diversity, equity, and inclusion advocacy for Black graphic designers.
Flamethrower | JOYLAND
My mother sets fire to the family sofa when she’s three years old. Woodrow Wilson is President and Marcus Garvey is selling tickets back to Africa. Her father has warned her about playing by the fireplace in their Pittsburgh row house but there she is again with her doll baby. The doll’s hair catches fire by accident or is part of an experiment. When it becomes a torch Mama tosses it under the sofa. Her father’s mad but he gets over it.
See the Rich Outcome of a Remote Residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts
VCFA MFA in Graphic Design fall 2020 graduating class member Danbee Park’s thesis work, “Maps, Masks, and Monsters” (2020) Thread, the thesis website for the fall 2020 graduating class of VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design, launched the week of October 5, during the program’s fall remote residency. Paris-based web designer/developer Mattieu Moreau-Domecq created the site, which showcases students’ thesis work and the books each graduate wrote, designed, and produced.
Vermont College of Fine Arts Exhibitions Foreground Adaptability Amid the Unexpected
VCFA 2020 alumnx Ross Sheehan’s “Search Party,” from the Liminal Grounds series (2020), image courtesy the artist The first-ever virtual exhibitions in Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Visual Art program are available for viewing on Kunstmatrix, a platform for showing art online. The two exhibitions — graduating students and new/returning students — opened the week of July 20 and will remain live through September 20. VCFA’s summer 2020 graduates are Amy Bernard, Felice M.
Art as Activism and Social Justice at Vermont College of Fine Arts
Social justice is the focus of Vermont College of Fine Arts MA in Art & Design Education founding faculty member Kim Cosier’s work, from creating activist arts-based community events with the Art Build Workers to her afterschool media-literacy Milwaukee Visionaries Project, and in her teaching at VCFA.
Apply for VCFA's Low Residency MFA in Graphic Design
Image courtesy of Vermont College of Fine Arts. VCFA’s low-residency MFA in Graphic Design allows you to maintain the life you’ve established and continue to build upon it. The academic and creative work is done from home, complemented by biannual trips to campus to reinvigorate your practice and strengthen your connections with fellow students and world-renowned faculty. Students learn to balance school, work, and personal life, and emerge with a terminal degree and a new community.
Visual Artists Find Support in a New "Distinguished Artist" Award at VCFA
For students starting the MFA in Visual Art program in Winter 2019, Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) will offer a new Distinguished Artist scholarship. Awarded to two incoming students from across the country and Canada, it will reflect the College’s continued support of diverse students from a variety of cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds.
VCFA’s Lorena Howard-Sheridan Featured in Annual Abierto Mexicano de Diseño Festival
Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty member, Lorena Howard-Sheridan, had five of her publications recently featured at the Albierto Mexicano de Diseño, an annual design festival held in Mexico. The books will become part of a collection of publishing design at the library/mediateca at Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión, where Lorena also teaches.Lorena is one of a distinguished team of professional designers who teach at VCFA in the MFA in Graphic Design program.
The Central Role Student Exhibitions Play in VCFA's MFA in Visual Art Program
As students travel to the Montpelier, Vermont campus at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) for residency from across North America, so does their artwork — whether commercially shipped, carefully packed in suitcases or loaded into cars and buses.
At VCFA, Reimagine Public Space as a Platform for Social Action
At Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), we see art and education as having important roles in the pursuit of social justice. We encourage our artist-teachers to see opportunities for their work to help uncover and address inequality and to take actions to make their classes, schools, community, and worlds more fair and inclusive places and to inspire their students to do the same.Andres L.
VCFA’s MFA in Visual Art Welcomes Prospective Students to Attend Summer Residency
Twice a year, students in the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA)’s low-residency MFA in Visual Art gather on campus for residency—a vibrant and intense period of artistic discussion, critiques, lectures and exhibitions.“The residency always feels like an artists’ congress to me. It brings together artists and researchers from the far corners of the United States and Canada,” shares program faculty co-chair, Dont Rhine.
VCFA’s MFA in Visual Art Program Pairs Students with Groundbreaking Artist-Teachers Throughout the Country
Artist-Teacher Harmony Hammond (right) with current VCFA MFA in Visual Art student Christa Marquez Smith (left) during the July 2016 residencyAt the MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) — the oldest low-residency program of its kind in the country — students develop and challenge their art practice under the guidance of an Artist-Teacher who lives and works in the student’s home community.Since 1991, the program has been pairing students with Artist-Teachers from around...
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