Vasa Affiliate Information
VASA Affiliate: A global network of visual arts organizations I am Roberto
Muffoletto,
director of the
VASA Project.
I hold a MFA in
Visual Studies
from the Visual
Studies Workshop-Rochester/SUNY-Buffalo,
and a Ph.D. in
Educational Technology
from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
I am the founder
of CEPA Gallery
in Buffalo, New
York (http://cepagallery.org/),
and have served
as a journal editor
for Camera Lucida
and Frame|Work,
a publication
based at the Los
Angeles Center
for Photographic
Studies. Over
the last 17 years
I have designed
and directed an
international
online graduate
degree program
in New Media and
Global Education
(Appalachian State
University http://edtech.ced.appstate.edu),
and collectively
built and directed
a community electronic
village in Cedar
Falls, Iowa (http://cedarnet.org/). I would like to introduce you to the VASA Project and how to become an Affiliate member. The VASA Project and Affiliates
There are five major benefits to being an Affiliate organization:
By becoming an Affiliate of the VASA Project, participating organizations expand and enhance their educational program offerings to their regional community at no cost or risk to the organization. As an "Affiliate Organization" you are requested to disseminate information from the VASA Project to your community (through emails and web sites) on "Gallery Talks and Presentations", "Workshops", and other events. For example as an affilaite your "Gallery Talk" will be promoted through all affiliates, expanding your audience and promoting your organization and artist.
The Workshops: The VASA Project covers all workshop expenses. This includes the registration of students, faculty stipends, server maintenance and upgrades, workshop development, storage of student portfolios, administration, and other costs. In addition, for each student noting an Affiliate organization when he or she registers for a workshop, that Affiliate organization will receive fifty dollars ($50.00). In other words, 10 students = $500, 100 students = $5000, and so on. Currently, the VASA faculty is located in various locals: Finland, Australia, the United States, and the Netherlands. All workshops are in English and online. Using digital networked technologies and social networking environments, the VASA Project is able to link experts and students from around the world, building a diverse and dynamic learning community for your organization and community. In my experience of directing centers, all too often workshops or classes do not draw enough students to cover expenses; there is interest in a media workshop, but the facilities or resources, such as labs and production tools, do not exist to support the workshop; and bringing notable experts to an institution is costly and may be beyond the funding available. The VASA Project, as a collective network of art organizations, makes this all possible. The VASA Project, as a global project, working in concert with Affiliates and individuals beyond national and geographic borders, is in a position to offer workshops, study groups, and seminars at no cost to the Affiliate organization. How to become a VASA Project Affiliate
To become a VASA
Project Affiliate
please contact
me at:
The VASA Project Workshops VASA Project workshops are NOT self-paced classes where students work through a curriculum in a controlled, linear fashion independent of other students and the instructor. Workshops are built upon a learning community concept where students, using interactive and social networking technologies on the Internet, work and learn together. Students exchange ideas, skills, and perceptions, while concurrently addressing the diversity of problem-solving approaches, thus expanding everyone's knowledge and understanding. Building community is the core of the VASA Project experience.
If you wish to have a conversation about the VASA Project and becoming an Affiliate, please email me at Roberto@vasa-project.com, and we can schedule a time to talk. I look forward to working with you. Roberto Muffoletto
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