Elsbeth Veldpape

Elsbeth Veldpape is trained as an Art Historian (VU) and obtained her First Degree in Drawing and Art History at AHK.

She has been working at ArtEZ as a teacher trainer since 2007, first as head of the Visual Arts and Design Teacher training program in Arnhem and Zwolle (2007-2015) and then as a researcher and program coordinator for the Masters in Art Education in Zwolle. From 2013, she has been a representative of ArtEZ for the national Kunstvak Docenten Overleg (KVDO).

From the professorship she was linked to the project "Cracking the Code", a research project in which diversity and inclusive art education are central. In addition, she is working on her PhD on the training of visual art teachers in the context of developments in autonomous art and education in the past eighty years.

In addition to ArtEZ, Elsbeth worked as a freelance researcher, author and educator at various major art museums in the Netherlands (including Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden). Vanaf 2013 is ze vanuit ArtEZ afgevaardigde voor het landelijke Kunstvak Docentenoverleg (KVDO).