Visiting Academic Staff

The Fulbright Program is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.
It is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State and administered under policy guidelines established by the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

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Professor Arūnas Ošlapas | Western Washington University
Academic year 2019/2020, autumn semester, Department of Design
 

So far the experience at VAA has been awesome! There are some very talented students here. I have also visited the other three campuses (Kaunas, Telšiai, and Klaipėda) and did a similar presentation as I did in Vilnius <...> 
In Vilnius, I am team teaching a Sustainable Design workshop with Barbora Adamonytė and product design students from the second, third, and fourth year. They have different levels of skills but the the assignment works well with all levels. The workshop is called 'ReMatters' (named by the students) and it is a 'sustainable entrepreneur' project that involves creating 'up-cycled' kitchen products from reused or discarded materials. 
Each student designs a product and then manufactures a quantity of 20 to be sold at at an exhibition on 13 December at the local business Denim Diaries. They experience creating a product from 'idea-to-store-shelf' and are responsible for each phase of development which includes producing 20 products, packaging, pricing, advertising/promotion, retail display, accounting, and each taking a shift working at the local design business selling the products for one week!
One of the goals of this experience is to help them in the future if they ever want to begin marketing or producing one of their own ideas.

Professor Arūnas Ošlapas
 

Anthony Edwin Stellaccio | Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Academic year 2016/2017, spring semester, Department of Ceramics

Peter Briggs | Helen DeVitt Jones curator of art at the Museum of Texas Tech University
Academic year 2015/2016, spring semester, Department of Art History and Theory

This program for MA and DA students is based on recent international postgraduate studies development. It consists of two parts: Theoretical Seminars - lectures held by professors, curators and artists from abroad; and Creative Discussions - students art work presentations (may be together with their supervisors) followed by discussions initiated by our guests from abroad.

Student presentations – 15 min, discussions – 30 min.

All Seminars, presentations and discussions are held in English and moderated by prof. Henrik B. Andersen. 

When you are willing to present your artistic work, please fill in a registration form.

Should you have any questions, please write an email: egle.bertasiute@stud.vda.lt 
Project coordinator Egle Bertasiute (ph:+370 603 67 681)
 

Dates and guests for 2015-2019

The artists, curators and professors having participated in the program in 2013 – 2015:

Ian Damerell (NO), Helena Reckitt (UK), Maria Arusoo (EE), Mikkel Bogh (DK), Rune Søchting (DK), Anders Kold (DK), Jacob Fabricius (DK), Thomas Locher (DK), Günter Selichar (AT), Claire Bishop (UK), Svajonė ir Paulius Stanikai (LT, FR), Per Aage Brandt (FR), Jørgen Michaelsen (DK), Brandon LaBelle (NO), etc.