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Art and Design (Mis)Education: an Experiment
All the contributions for this constellation were originally part of a salon Quodlibetica co-hosted with Art of This on September 18, 2011. The conversation ranged far and wide, and we are only including a fraction of the voices that were part of the night. For our editorial, visit our News page.
By Wing Young Huie
“Either you’re going to do it or you’re not, and the best education in the world is not going to help if you weren’t going to do it in the first place.”
Wing Young Huie’s Formula For Artistic Success:
Decide what you’re going to do.
Decide that you’ll actually do it. (Hardest part.)
Take the [...]
Published 10.1.2011
By Alyson Coward, Kelly Filreis, and Anthony Warnick (of Art Of This)
We are compelled to begin by stating that an art school should be in flux, changeable, nomadic in its structure, approach, and location. What is stated below doesn’t define our consensus on an ideal, but rather recognizes that an educational [...]
Published 10.1.2011
By Ana Lois-Borzi
1.) Graduate school in the arts: what are the ethical problems faced by art educators? Do we, as educators, depict the “whole” picture to our students?
2.) Why do art schools continue to glorify (read: teach from) a global, exclusive art star system whose work is used in high stakes investment endgames in the [...]
Published 10.1.2011
By Jan Estep
I am for an education that says “yes”—yes to learning, yes to art, yes to life.
I am for an education that helps students become aware of our own aesthetic, conceptual, and emotional gestures, to discover who we actually are.
I am for an education that helps students to be [...]
Published 10.1.2011
By Tucker Hollingsworth
I speak as a lay man, a maverick in this group, as I’ve entered the art world and become a full-time visual artist with neither an academic degree, nor any academic program. My photographic education was practical and my tutelage a one-on-one mentorship under Michal Daniel. Therefore I’m [...]
Published 10.1.2011
By Aaron Van Dyke
Art education is simple but difficult. It is should not be complicated, but it takes a lot of work. Students need to learn a lot of skills to become interesting artists, but we don’t know what those skills are, and we never will, hopefully. [...]
Published 10.1.2011
By Patricia Briggs and Monica Haller
Patricia Briggs and Monica Haller propose a model for an art and design school based on the mutually supportive and productive relationship they developed at MCAD as student and teacher. There they worked as an open-ended learning and thinking team. This team, and model of [...]
Published 10.1.2011