[accessibleimage] Re: teaching certification/ training

Hello,
I'm an artist/ teacher living in Chicago- and a fellow
SAIC grad!  I am legally blind and have taught art
classes to high school and middle school kids who are
blind.  To my knowledge there are no certification
programs for teaching art to visually impaired kids-
that is, just blind kids or just art.  You could get
certification in special education or as a teacher of
blind students, but if you are only interested in
teaching art and not other subjects the best thing to
do would be to do your own independent research-
volunteer to teach some art classes so as to get a
sense of what the students are looking for in the way
of art instruction.  You might also want to look up
organizations like the National Federation of the
Blind which promotes a positive and empowering
philosophy of blindness.  I know of a few art teachers
who work with blind children and adults here in the
states.  You might want to contact Ann Cunningham at
the Colorado Center for the Blind.  She teaches
classes in sculpture and stone carving and is very
knowledgable.  

Good luck!

Jennifer Justice  

--- Novie Josephine Joe <njoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> my name is Novie. I am an art teacher (although i am
> not teaching art right
> now). I have been interested in the art world of the
> visually impaired
> community. At one point in my completing my Fine Art
> degree (at SAIC), I was
> suddenly drawn to the world opposite of what I was
> accustomed to - the
> two-dimensional art creation. I love the process of
> painting and drawing that I
> could not help but questioning the conditions of
> experiencing and creating these
> with impaired vision. I was then drawn into creating
> artwork using and/or
> referecing braille in both tactile and illusionistic
> texture; but have not been
> able to spare the time to throroughly grasp to
> develop my ideas since I began
> teaching. 
> I am still immensely interested in both the visually
> impaired and Art, as well
> as education. I have been trying to find out
> information as to wher I could be
> trained or receive a certification to teach art for
> the visually impaired. I
> currently hold an Illinois Visual Art teaching
> certification from K- 12, but am
> working in Indonesia due to visa complication. I am
> looking into living in
> Chicago. Does anyone have any suggestions as to
> where I could receive
> certification to teach (art) to the visually
> impaired?
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Novie Joe
> 
> 
> 

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