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Best of British: an art school debate
Expect a heated and informative debate tonight, as a panel of professionals discusses the role of enterprise culture in art schools.
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Blogger profile: Theo Wood
We settle in to Theo Wood’s fictional space, The Museum Of Space Exploration, to talk museum objects, planets bereft of water, Arnolfini workshops and preparation for her MA show at University of the West of England.
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Art and learning
Profiling two education programmes that provide a variety of entry points to artistic practice and encourage audience participation via tours, symposia, courses and workshops as well as performances and events.
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Maggie Tran: Wanderings in a self-sufficient universe
Artist, horticulturist and a-n Communications and partnerships team member Maggie Tran sowed the seeds of her practice through volunteering and event programming. As working life flourishes she takes us to the tip of her roots to tell the tale.
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Jennifer Picken: A juggler in the game
Jennifer Picken has been working with a-n since her MFA studies at Newcastle University, and continues her role in the Communications and Partnerships team working remotely from Amsterdam – where she has a studio. Here she maps her alternative working routes through undergraduate study, from volunteering to mentoring and beyond.
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Pippa Koszerek: Project and manage
Pippa Koszerek, a Campaigns Researcher at a-n, lets us in to her early career developments with Hull Time Based Arts.
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Re: Less is not always more: art education on the back foot
I am writing to endorse Tom Davies’ excellent letter on the dire future for art education (a-n Magazine, November 2011) at a time when UCAS art admissions are 27% down on last year (see www.guardian.co.uk).
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Richard Taylor: The invigilator’s chair
Richard Taylor, online editor of a-n’s Students community and Degrees unedited, maps his journey over four years and shares insights from one invigilator’s chair to the next.
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Less is not always more: art education on the back foot
On reading Mitra Memarzia’s report on diminishing resources in undergraduate courses (‘The future of art education’, a-n Magazine September 2011) I was moved to both endorse the findings and speculate further on the continuing erosion of specialist teacher training in art education.
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Artists by and large
The continued squeeze on arts funding is throwing up some interesting solutions to supporting artists, whilst raising some serious debates about the future of the profession.
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Re: The future of art education
I have just finished my MA, before that I did a BA in Fine Art. I learnt about how to think rather than what to think, which would seem to be the main difference between vocational and academic studies.
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Re: The future of art education
There are two key things Nicholas Leverington mentions that I want to zone into.
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Editorial – 2011 September
As UK’s universities continue their radical overhaul to deliver a more streamlined and affordable ‘service’, art education is facing up to the challenges this presents to the sector. Attending Cubitt’s July Festival of Blackboards, Mitra Memarzia observes that art students […]
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Every journey is different
A selection of post-graduate study routes on offer across the UK.
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Future forecast: Outcomes and issues: Continuous practice for a 21st Century artist
Becky Shaw explores the dangers of the concept of ‘continuous practice’ and gives thought to the key factors that enable longevity if artists choose it.
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Continue your journey
Profiling new courses and developments in postgraduate teaching across the UK.
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Future art and design under threat
In March, AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation – put its weight behind calls for art education to be accessible to all, following a survey in which 95% of its members gave hearty support to the view that art education should be accessible “irrespective of background and financial status”. Here we outline AIR’s campaign and the survey’s key findings to provide evidence for artists to use.
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Art and learning
Education and community projects engaging artists and audiences across the UK and Europe.
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Where the education takes place
Sarah Rowles examines how conversation and discussion can be considered an education in contemporary art.
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Graduate interview: Rebecca Strain
Richard Taylor catches up with artist Rebecca Strain as she uses her isolation from developed networks to confront a writing practice that complements the enduring nature of her visual production.
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Alternative art schools
Artist Pippa Koszerek considers recent student protests within the context of alternative art school strategies.
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Alternative art schools: The Cedilla that smiles
Martin Patrick on Robert Filliou and George Brecht’s collaborative shop project La Cédille qui sourit.
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Alternative art schools: Edu-Factory Conference
Robyn Minogue reports from the ‘For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity’ conference in Paris that looked to discuss and organise a common network based on European -wide issues including autonomous knowledge production, self-education and networking.
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Alternative art schools: The unnatural order of things
Terry Smith discusses the Experimental Art School.
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Alternative art schools
A consideration of the background to alternative arts schools and their current relevance, citing historical ideology and using eight case studies.