VALA - Visual Arts/Language Arts for Kids in the Public Schools




VALA artists are encouraged to incorporate current exhibitions, performances and community resources into their programs. Each program visits a site, and then uses the trip as a focus for teaching a creative writing and art project.

3rd grader Patrick Mac from Lincoln School creates movement sculpture in theater arts specialist Sheila Balter's workshop. Field trip to Oakland Museum, Spring 2002.	Here are some sites our programs have visited: American Indian Contemporary Art Gallery Asian Art Museum Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley Hertz Hall Noon Concerts Jewish Museum, San Francisco Judah Magnes Museum Oakland Museum Lake Merritt

Mexican Museum, San Francisco Mills College Art Gallery SFMOMA Shadowlight Productions UC Berkeley Art Museum UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens UC Berkeley Gamelan Room		Sean Nash describing one of his own pieces to student Exhibit at Gaia Building in Downtown Berkeley. Spring 2002