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Artist Pedagogy

The project sets out to develop a deeper understanding of how and why artists teach in the ways they do, to share these approaches through various means, and to foster communities of practice.

Introduction

This five-year research project investigates the recent evolution of artists’ pedagogies in post compulsory education. Its specific focus is how artist teach artists within the various types of institution and anti-institution where contemporary visual art is studied. It asks how the rich experience of artist educators might help us to imagine and implement new futures. It sets out to develop a deeper understanding of how and why artists teach in the ways they do, to share these approaches through various means, and to foster communities of practice. The project aims to develop new pedagogies and new theoretical frameworks through which we can understand them while contextualizing these against the rich histories of art schools and boarder educational theory.

We use various methods including action research; analysing narratives of lived experience though interviewing current artist educators; developing and delivering workshops that encourage the exploration of possible futures; and exploring artistic research as an approach to researching artist pedagogies.

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Project name

Artist Pedagogy

Funder

Saastamoinen Foundation