Teaching Artist Fellowship

"A teaching artist (artist-educator) is a practicing professional artist with the complementary skills and sensibilities of an educator, who engages people in learning experiences in, through or about the arts."
- Eric Booth

VSA arts recently launched its second year of the Teaching Artist Fellowship as a step to engage and support teaching artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts.

The arts enrich the learning environment and make it more inclusive of students with disabilities. VSA arts recognizes that teaching artists provide the passion, guidance, and talent necessary to introduce the arts to all learners. VSA arts' educational programs are a vital part of building these teaching artist collaborations to engage students with disabilities. Artists with disabilities working in the classroom demonstrate the importance of creativity and expression in the learning process.

The program is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education and the Dana Foundation. The Fellowship supports the Fellows' personal teaching goals, enhances classroom practice, and shares the Fellows' knowledge of issues specific to teaching artists with disabilities with the larger community.