V. C. KAELIN, Biography
Valérie C. Kaelin currently coordinates The Certificate in Design for Arts and Entertainment at The Raymond G. Chang School of Continuing Education and teaches aspects of scenography for that programme as for The School of Image Arts. She also lectures at York University’s bilingual Glendon College in Department of Multidisciplinary Studies. The academic year of 2012-13 gave her opportunity to develop the course, “Spatiality and Spatial Representation,” the culmination of five year’s research, as an interdisciplinary subject made available to undergraduate students from disciplines across the arts and sciences.
Teaching CV, in chronological flow
1972 - 1976
BA, Fine Art, Florida State University (Magna Cum Laude)
1974 - Florence, Italy Study Program
1976 - 1978
MFA, Theatre, Florida State University (Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi)
1977 - Costume Apprenticeship, The Oregon Shakespearean Festival
1977 - USITT Travel Grant to Bratislava, the former ČSSR
1976
Instructor of Costume Class and Laboratory
School of Theatre, Florida State University, Tallahassee
1980 - 1982
Costume Designer-in-Residence
Lecturer: California State University, Fresno
1982 - 1986
Assistant Professor, Scenography, The Drama Department
Established the Costume Shop and Designed the Costume Curriculum
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
1986 - 1994
Lecturer and Designer, York University School of Theatre
1996 - present
Sessional Instructor, The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University
1997 - 1998
Sessional Instructor, The School of Theatre, Ryerson University
2003-2004
Training Coordinator, The Director’s Guild of Canada
2002-2010
DGC Art Department Caucus Trainer
2006 - present
Author, Coordinator: The Certificate in Design for Arts and Entertainment
The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University
2007
Manual Drafting, Animation Module I (Flash). Digital Media Office Project Grant.
Used in all technical drawing courses. Copyright, the author’s.
2008 - present
Sessional Instructor, Département d’Études Pluridisciplinaires / Department of Multidisciplinary Studies.
Collège Glendon College. Université York University.
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