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This course is based on our award-winning Footprints toward Sustainability, a hands-on program which includes the making of clay footprints, dialogue, and designs for community based on concepts of sustainability. The program engages creative energy, builds civic responsibility, and plans for the future. This program aligns to the Vermont Standards and the target audience is 6th grade/middle school children on up.
Diane Gayer and Maggie Sherman have joined to develop to teach this 2008 summer course. The collaboration brings together complementary design skills and years of practice working with students and communities.
Maggie Sherman is an artist who has been making art in unexpected places since 1980, provoking people to think about their lives and their values She uses the “get gooey & giggle” approach to engage people and draw them into a process that allows them to see themselves and each other in a new way.
Diane Gayer is director of the Vermont Design Institute (VDI). VDI is a non-profit collaborative of design professionals formed to serve rural communities in Vermont. VDI brings an ability to educate teachers and students about design as a problem-solving technique, communicating through drawing and visual media, visualizing community design solutions, and working with local leaders and decision-makers.
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