Artist Pedagogy

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.

Sub projects

• Artistic Processes of University Art Students Self-Identifying Along the Neurodiversity Spectrum
• Gestural philosophy (concluded)
• Performance Pedagogy – Politics of Art Pedagogy
• Writing-with Others as Artist Pedagogy

Events

• The Work of the Head, the Heart, the Hands – An exhibition exploring the influence of teaching on artists’ practices, at University of Lapland, October to December 2024
• Foun­da­tional – Ex­plor­ing the Lega­cies and Im­pacts of Foun­da­tion Art & De­sign Ed­u­ca­tion at Uniarts Helsinki, June and August 2024
• Gestures and Languages: Innovative Approaches to Artistic Thinking and Pedagogy Symposium at Uniarts Helsinki, November 2023
• ARTIST/PEDAGOGY/RESEARCH
• On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach Conference in collaboration with Glasgow School of Art (2023)
• What is Artist Peadgogy? Symposium at Uniarts Helsinki, May 2023
• Reimaging the Art School: Pandemic Paragogies