Visual Thinking Strategies

Facilitation & Research

Facilitation

In addition to coordinating Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) programmes, Julia is trained and experienced VTS facilitator.

Julia completed the Beginners (2018) and Advanced Practicums (2021) delivered by VTS USA.

Since 2021, she is facilitating VTS sessions with primary and secondary school students and in galleries.

Julia wrote her Masters thesis on the development of VTS in an Irish context, 2018 (First Class Honours), which was published by the American VTS organisation. It is accessible here.

She also wrote articles about VTS:

• ‘Permission To Be Puzzled (And To Think)’, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, 2019.

• ‘The Gift of Sight: Why You Cannot VTS on Your Own’, Site Specific, 2019.