SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Presentations
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
3-29-2019
Abstract
Devon founded The Art Education Program (AEP) started because of her interest in the transition into a post-secondary level of arts academics from a secondary school level. The AEP aims to ease the transition from high school into university by providing support to students interested in pursuing the visual arts. The outcome of the program became a lot more than a mentorship, but it became an opportunity for participants to critically engage with their own art practice, and professionalize their skills, and created a small community that fostered growth, creativity, and experimentation. Devon designed the AEP to uncover where the secondary school curriculum could better foster growth for visual artist, and to discover if teaching in the visual arts is in her career interests.