Writing
For the most recent additions to the magazine, this is the page to visit. Here, we publish all of our content in chronological order: both the essays that are part of a constellation and essays that are sparsile – that is, unattached to any constellation.
Technology, Production, Value, and the Disappearing Hand of the Producer
By Tom Westbrook
In 1989, while struggling to keep a small gallery and studio open, I began working at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as a temporary worker on the exhibitions crew. When the Walker was organizing large exhibitions, they would hire a number of temps to frame art, prepare [...]
Painting Experience/Painting Perception: Jil Evans and Margaret Wall-Romana at Bethel
By Christina Schmid
Painting, writes art critic Roberta Smith, “seems to be becoming the art medium that dare not speak its name.”[i] In light of this dire assessment, encountering an exhibition devoted to painting alone deserves notice. But what makes the work on view in “Movement—Process—Reflection” truly remarkable is not only the medium that does speak [...]
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Wing Young Huie’s Formula For Artistic Success
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 [...]
an art school reformation
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 [...]
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Some Questions Concerning Art Education
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 [...]
I Am For An Education
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 [...]
A Lay Man’s Point of View
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 [...]
Art Education
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. [...]
Art School: A Proposal
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 [...]
Dreaming in the Heat of the Day: Notes from Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, the Netherlands.
By Susan Armington.
Dreaming in the Heat of the Day: Notes from Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, the Netherlands.
July. The sun pours down on ancient stone walls that once housed monks and priests-in-training. I’m in the shade, resting beside an immense hydrangea, when I look up. Just above me, are two giant spermatozoa, [...]
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