Education

Attention Artisans!

ACV has been working to establish a “studio school” education program and is providing artisans with an early opportunity to express what types of classes they would like to see and what types of courses they might be able to instruct. As the project moves forward a formal request for more detailed class descriptions from potential instructors will be issued. For now, please help us determine your level of interest.

To help frame your course ideas, here are some basic parameters:

Craft Courses: Instructors of craft specific courses must be a Virginia juried artisan member of ACV in good standing. Due to potential on-site limitations, only dry media and design courses are currently a good fit with the available space. We anticipate having on-site support for wood-working, weaving, and audiovisual equipment. Creative solutions for offering wet media courses that do not include on-site kilns and industrial drain requirements are encouraged.

Business Development Courses: Instructors of business development courses must be a member of ACV in good standing. These courses will be to help artistic entrepreneurs expand their businesses, marketing, and sales activity. The targeted student demographic includes high school, post-secondary and homeschool students in addition to adults and practicing artisans seeking continuing education. We encourage you to propose courses you could begin teaching as early as fall of 2010. Course sessions are anticipated to follow a semester schedule (fall, spring, summer) and can be either 8-10 weeks in length or expand for an entire semester. Number of students per class 10-25. On-site classes can be scheduled between 9am to 5pm Monday-Friday. Stand-alone workshops may also be one day intensives, and we encourage you to propose these as well.