BECOME A VASA AFFILIATE test2

The VASA Project is designed as a global learning environment focused on photography, digital video, criticism, visual studies, new media, and other emerging areas, such as Web 2.0 social networking environments. All the VASA Project workshops are delivered online in English, using open-source and Internet-based interactive environments. The VASA Project is based upon the union of two familiar environments: the traditional workshop model and networked digital media technology.

A VASA Project Affiliate is an visual arts or media orgranization that works with VASA in offering online workshops, gallery talks, study groups, and seminars that enhances and enriches the organization's educational program to its community, as well as a larger global community.

Affiliate Benefits

There are five major benefits to being an Affiliate organization:

1. Each affiliate may schedule online interactive Gallery Talks, promoting their artist and their organization at no cost.
2. Affiliates may organize presentations which promote their programming and events at no cost.
3. Expanded educational and workshop offerings to your membership and community at no cost or risk.
4. Revenue flow from workshops returning to your organization on a per-student basis.
5. Being part of a global network of Affiliates using the emerging communication and information technologies to build and support learning communities.

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.

Affiliate Responsibilities

As an Affiliate you are requested to disseminate information from the VASA Project to your community (through emails and web sites) on VASA Gallery Talk, Workshops, Exhibitions and other events. Likewise, your VASA-hosted programs will be promoted through all affiliates, expanding your audience and promoting your organization and artists.

The VASA Project takes care of the rest: registrations, and all expenses related to the Workshops, Gallery Talks, Focus Groups, or Seminars.

There is no risk or cost to the affiliate organization.

Offering an Online Workshop through VASA

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.

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.

Please walk through VASA Project Web site for more information about workshop offerings (goto:workshops) and to become acquainted with faculty members.

If you wish to have a conversation about the VASA Project and becoming an Affiliate, please email Roberto.

 

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