Artist as Educator
Ikon Gallery & University of Central England, Birmingham, 12/13 May
Do the ways in which artists engage directly with other people provide valuable models for educational practice?
The symposium looks at artists working within the formal and informal education sectors with a focus on issues raised by the research into the Artists in Sites for learning project by Emily Pringle commissioned by the Arts Council of England eg:
- The artist's practice in relation to learning theories and pedagogy.
- Methodologies involving non-didactic, dialogue-based learning models with the artist as facilitator and co-learner.
- The emphasis artists place on self-directed and experiential learning.
- Status of the knowledge that artists have and impart to others.
- The relationship between artists' education and training and the nature of their engagement with participants in a project.
- How artists view the difference between enabling participants to develop critical and creative approaches and the teaching of specific practical or craft skills.
- The role of the gallery as a both a formal and informal educational arena.
We will be discussing issues relating to artists' individual creative practice and their relationship to pedagogic practice, with the emphasis very much on the experience of the artist, rather than participants in a project. The structure for the debate will be given through a series of presentations, two way conversations and panel responses.
Speakers will include: Emily Pringle, Barbara Steveni, Maria Balshaw, Anya Gallaccio, Mike Stanley, Francoise Dupre, Roz Hall, Deborah Kermode, Jane Sillis)
Educator articles and papers
- Repositioning Art in the Decision-Making Processes of Society
- Barbara Steveni, presented at Artist as Educator session
- Introduction - Artist as Educator
- Emily Pringle - Delivered as part of the Artist as Educator symposium
- Tell Me Where You Live
- Francoise Dupre - delivered as part an artists' panel at the Artist as Educator symposium
- Art, Education, Activism
- Platforms perspective represented by Jane Trowell - delivered as part an artists' panel at the Artist as Educator symposium
- Developing Forms of Democratic Evaluation
- Roz Hall - Delivered as part of the Artist as Educator symposium