Visiting Educator and Artist Lunch Talk with Teresa Booth Brown '85

Teresa Booth Brown '85, Arts Integration Specialist at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, CO, will be in residence at Bennington on Wednesday and Thursday, October 14–15. Formerly the Director of Education and Community Programs at the Aspen Museum of Art, she has built a career as an artist creating paintings, collages, and clothing. Her work—which combines oil painting with collage along with mixed-media drawings and printmaking—is distinguished by strong color, abstracted imagery, and architectural geometry.

Brown sees teaching and creating as intertwined. She has authored professional development courses for art teachers highlighting “Teaching as Part of an Artistic Practice.” She models her teaching after the teaching she received at Bennington. “The focus of my life is to bring progressive education to the teaching of art. Students best learn by doing,” said Brown. Her "Possibilitist" approach is a way of thinking and working that begins with simple but expansive questions: What can this be? What can we do with what we have right here? What’s the potential of this or that? 

Contact Cheri Butler with any questions about the event.