Pensarte
critical thinking & learning
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" - Marcel Proust
Our Visiting Artist Program
About Us
Pensarte employs a widely acclaimed teaching method called "Visual Thinking Strategies" or "VTS."
Through viewing art in peer-group settings with facilitated discussions, the VTS method advances literacy through looking. It begins by taking time to observe a work of art together. It asks for in-depth thinking, the articulation of ideas, sharing evidence of what one observes, and listening to others. The VTS method of engaging with art has proven to enhance visual literacy and to aid writing, reading, and language use in subjects of art and beyond, into literature, math, and the sciences.
More than 30 years in evolution VTS was created by Philip Yenawine, former Director of Education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Dr. Abigail Housen, a Harvard University-trained educator and psychologist specializing in aesthetic development.
The professional visiting artists in the Pensarte program are trained in the VTS teaching method.
Visit VTS online at www.vtshome.org.
Founder
The Pensarte visiting artist program was founded in 2010 by Linda Lynch. A working professional artist for more than three decades, Lynch is trained in the VTS teaching method and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to an extensive exhibition history, her work is in many public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Harvard University Art Museum, Yale University Gallery, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. She has many years of experience in arts administration with the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as well as with numerous commercial fine arts galleries in New York, Chicago, and Texas. She has taught drawing for fine arts majors at the University of Texas at El Paso and has managed private studio offices for contemporary artists. She is a native of West Texas and southern New Mexico and continues to create works of art from her studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Please visit Linda's work online at www.lindalynchstudio.net.
Pensarte welcomes inquiries and extends a special invitation to teachers to contact us directly. We will make every effort to accommodate inquiries. For more information or to schedule an orientation please contact:
Pensarte
43 Rock Pile Road, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, 87508 USA
(575) 494-5391
info@Pens-arte.org
Pensarte aims to help schools integrate Visual Thinking Strategies into their regular curriculum as a permanent teaching method in all subjects so that schools and educators have this important tool to advance literacy on a long term basis within their own means.
