RSVP Today! Careers in Influencing panel hosted by Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter featuring Saturne Tchabong, Erik Tompkins, and Jasmine Simpkins is tonight, May 7, on Zoom at 4pm.
How can arts education change lives?
UCLA Arts’ Visual and Performing Arts Education program prepares the next generation of artist-educators who use creative practice, teaching, and community engagement to transform learning environments and expand access to the arts.
Faculty and students work across teaching artistry, curriculum design, performance, visual arts, and community-based practice. Their work is rooted in equity, committed to access, and oriented toward meaningful, lasting impact. The work they do reaches into public schools and communities across Los Angeles and beyond, shaping a more inclusive and imaginative future for cultural learning.
#BruinGivingDay #UCLAArts #UCLA
Check out these upcoming opportunities! The Hammer is hiring, VAPAE has a new summer course, and attend an alumni panel! Learn more at the websites listed.
Get your VAPAE Minor applications in by May 1st! Link to application can be found on our website.
Requirements to apply:
- Completed AE M102 with a grade of "B" or better
- Completed at least 50% of lower division major requirements
Our VAPAE Director, Dr. Kevin Kane, will be speaking at this wonderful event held through UCLA Extension!
"RE:DESIGN // RE:IMAGINE is a one-day educational experience that brings together designers, artists, students, educators, and creative leaders to explore how arts and design education are evolving in response to emerging technologies, culturally responsive teaching and new creative economies." If you are interested in attending, please scan the QR code and learn more at uclaextension.edu.
New Article 📚✨
What does it mean to teach in ways that truly sustain culture, identity, and community?
This qualitative study explores how early-career teaching artists—artists who also teach—navigate complex questions about knowledge, art, and identity while working in multigenerational, culturally sustaining settings.
Drawing on culturally sustaining pedagogy and the dynamic systems model of role identity, the study finds that teaching artists’ beliefs about teaching, learning, and community don’t develop in isolation—they evolve through ongoing interaction with their environments and broader sociopolitical contexts.
✨ Key insight: Teaching in culturally sustaining spaces can spark deep “onto-epistemic” exploration—shaping not just what educators do, but how they understand themselves, their work, and the communities they serve.
These findings offer important implications for how we prepare and support teaching artists committed to equity and culturally responsive practice.
🔗 See link in bio to read the full case study.
#CulturallySustainingPedagogy #TeachingArtists #ArtsEducation #EducationResearch #EquityInEducation #CommunityEngagement #TeacherIdentity #QualitativeResearch #StudentSuccess #EducationEquity
Congratulations to the sixth graders of @wrightsteam on a fantastic week in this year’s classroom-in-residence program, a collaboration between @uclavapae & @hammer_museum : a free, innovative program designed to strengthen student and teacher learning about art through a weeklong, immersive experience at the Hammer Museum & on campus at UCLA Arts. The students were creative, fun, energetic, and enthusiastic… and our VAPAE teaching artists Bianca & Luz, along with all the Hammer staff & student educators, were so welcoming, caring & flexible … we had a blast and we all learned so much! It was joyful!
Thank you to our cherished partners at the Hammer, what a great pleasure it is to make this happen with you every year!
#artseducation #museumeducation #danceeducation #teachingartists #classroominresidence
We would like to extend a huge thank you to Mark Salzman, Jimmy Wu, and the entire staff at InsideOUT Writers for hosting a wonderful night the InsideOUT Writers office. Mark Salzman, author of True Notebooks, Jimmy Wu, VAPAE professor of AE 105: Arts in Correctional Institutions, and Dr. Kevin Kane, VAPAE Director led an insightful discussion about the impacts of creative writing in correctional institutions, followed up with a Q&A open to the public. It made for a deeply impactful and memorable night.
VAPAE and InsideOUT Writers presents: An Evening with Mark Salzman & Jimmy Wu: A celebration of community, transformation, and the enduring power of creative writing. Join us for an amazing evening using the QR code in the photo! We look forward to seeing you there.
