IB Visual Arts Teacher Workshop

The Visual Arts Workshop (VAW) at Les Tapies in Southern France, offered in cooperation with the IB, is a category 2 and 3 workshop for experienced IB Diploma art teachers interested in expanding their professional development and engaging in an intimate community of like-minded professionals.

The Program draws on the rich artistic heritage of Provence and its unique light and landscape which has inspired master artists for centuries. Les Tapies is a beautifully restored 17^th century hamlet with spectacular views overlooking the Rhone Valley and the French Alps in the distance. The excellent art studios in architecture, drawing & painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture are at the full disposal of the VAW participants. A special dimension of the program is the supportive community shared with art teachers, presenters and guest artists who come from a broad spectrum of schools from around the world.

The intensive four-day workshop is led by experienced IB presenter and examiner Andrew Vaughan. In addition joint sessions are offered with participants from the highly regarded Les Tapies Art Teacher Workshop (ATW), which reconnects art teachers with their artistic passion.

Dates: Monday 15, July - Thursday, 18 July 2013

Fees: 1.200 Euros includes presentations, local excursions and full room and board.

VAW participants may also extend their stay at Les Tapies to take part in the ATW, which is specifically designed by experienced art teachers and enables teachers to become students again as well as explore ways to strengthen their art departments. A highlight of the ATW is the full day excursion to incomparable Aix-en-Provence, home of Cezanne.

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Upcoming Events

sojourn to
Aix-en-Provence, 2011:

Participants in this summer's Les Tapies IB Visual Art/Art Teacher Workshop will visit Cezanne's studio at Les Lauves and also view The Jean Planque Collection at the Granet Museum.

The studio where Cézanne worked right until the end of his life, the Atelier des Lauves, is steeped in the artist's personality and displays his painting materials and personal belongings, for all the world as though he were still there and had just popped out for a breath of fresh air.

Granet Museum

The Example of Cezanne

Collection Planque: June 11-October 2, 2011

The exceptional collection of the Jean and Suzanne Planque Foundation has recently been deposited at the Granet Museum for a period of fifteen years. To celebrate this extraordinary collaboration, the museum will show 150 masterpieces from the collection. Works by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin and Cézanne will be shown as well as major artists of the twentieth including Picasso, Braque, Dufy, Laurens, Leger, Klee, and Dubuffet.

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