School Watch - Art & Education

School Watch presents critical perspectives on art and academia. Featured profiles, surveys, and dialogues consider education in fine art, curating, and critical theory, as well as the ideas and conditions that influence practice.

January 2023 • Office Hours: Catherine Quan Damman: Institute of Fine Arts at New York University

December 2022 • Office Hours: Paul Mpagi Sepuya: University of California, San Diego

December 2022 • Close Encounters: “As you go… roads under your feet, towards the new future” Research Inquiry • Toby Üpson

November 2022 • Field Notes: “Until the Songs Spring,” Mexican Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Molly Everett

November 2022 • Field Notes: The Soul Expanding Ocean #3: Dineo Seshee Bopape, “Ocean! What if no change is your desperate mission?,” Ocean Space, Venice • Patricia Roig Canepa

November 2022 • Field Notes: Pedro Neves Marques, “Vampires in Space,” Portuguese Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Federico Rudari

November 2022 • Field Notes: Kyrgyz, Uzbek, and Kazakh Pavilions, 59th Venice Biennale • Taisia Kuchinskaia

November 2022 • Field Notes: Shubigi Rao, “Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book,” Singapore Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Fiona Yu-Lun Hsu

November 2022 • Field Notes: Dadamaino in “The Milk of Dreams,” 59th Venice Biennale • Francesco Gariboldi

October 2022 • Field Notes: Zsófia Keresztes, “After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage,” Hungarian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Camille Moreno

October 2022 • Field Notes: Adina Pintilie, “You Are Another Me — A Cathedral of the Body,” Romanian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Monica Seiceanu

October 2022 • From These Dark Mirrors of the World: “The Rise of the Coyote,” Materia Abierta Summer School • Guillermo Canek García

October 2022 • Field Notes: Rilindja Press Palace and Centre for Narrative Practice, Manifesta 14 • Hana Halilaj

September 2022 • Field Notes: LE 18, Documenta 15 • Jamila Moroder

September 2022 • Field Notes: Nguyễn Trinh Thi and ikkibawiKrrr, Documenta 15 • Inji Kim

September 2022 • Field Notes: Nhà Sàn Collective, Documenta 15 • Alaina Claire Feldman

September 2022 • Field Notes: Ilona Németh, OFF-Biennale Budapest, “Floating Gardens,” Documenta 15 • Ashley Allen

September 2022 • Field Notes: On the inclusion of children, Documenta 15 • Mehmet Berkay Sulek

September 2022 • Field Notes: Gudskul, El Warcha, and foundationClass, Documenta 15 • Catherin Schöberl

August 2022 • Field Notes: Maria Eichhorn, “Relocating a Structure,” German Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Jef Declercq

August 2022 • Field Notes: Asia Art Archive, The Black Archives, and Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie, Documenta 15 • Zach Ngin

August 2022 • Field Notes: “Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol,” Chilean Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Helene Romakin

August 2022 • Field Notes: Vladimir Nikolić, Serbian Pavilion, and Tomo Savić-Gecan, Croatian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale • Toby Üpson

August 2022 • Field Notes: MADEYOULOOK, Documenta 15 • Sindi-Leigh McBride

July 2022 • Field Notes: INLAND, Documenta 15 • Kim Córdova

July 2022 • Field Notes: “Penumbra,” Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice • May Makki

July 2022 • Field Notes: The Question of Funding, Eltiqa, and Sada [Regroup], Documenta 15 • Mateusz Sapija

July 2022 • Field Notes: Black Quantum Futurism and Más Arte Más Acción, Documenta 15 • Sara Garzón

June 2022 • Field Notes: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill in “The Milk of Dreams,” 59th Venice Biennale • Leo Cocar

June 2022 • Office Hours: Jin-me Yoon: School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University

May 2022 • The Medium is the Method: Activating Education as Experimental Art Practice with LA ESCUELA___ • Miguel Braceli and Sofía Olascoaga

May 2022 • Office Hours: Eva Díaz: Pratt Institute

May 2022 • Office Hours: Dr. Ros Gray: Goldsmiths, University of London

April 2022 • Office Hours: Patricia Johnson: Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

April 2022 • Office Hours: Charlotte Laubard: Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)

March 2022 • Office Hours: Drew Thompson: Bard Graduate Center

March 2022 • Sink or Swim: Discovering New Strokes in Education at POST in Riga • Corina L. Apostol

March 2022 • Office Hours: Dr. Emily LaBarge: Royal College of Art

February 2022 • Office Hours: Nora Sternfeld: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK)

February 2022 • Artists for Artists: Mentorship through Care, Solidarity, and Reciprocity • Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Chrisoula Lionis with Ayesha Singh, Raúl Hott, and Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel

February 2022 • Office Hours: Dorothee Richter: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and University of Reading

January 2022 • Office Hours: Amelia Groom: Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam

January 2022 • Office Hours: Paul Ramírez Jonas: Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP)

December 2021 • The Past Is Never Over: Cooper Union, Reuben Kadish, and the Education of Artists • Doug Ashford and Owen Duffy

December 2021 • Office Hours: Jessica Stockholder: University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts

November 2021 • Office Hours: Natasha Marie Llorens: Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm

November 2021 • To Create a Space for Experimentation: School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts • Ann C. Collins

November 2021 • Office Hours: Nida Sinnokrot: Art, Culture, and Technology Program at MIT

October 2021 • Office Hours: Milo Keller: University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL)

October 2021 • after the turn: Decolonial and Noncanonical Learning in Gaza • Mona Kriegler and Alia Rayyan

October 2021 • Office Hours: Ane Hjort Guttu: Oslo National Academy of the Arts

September 2021 • Office Hours: Mindy Seu: Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University

September 2021 • Changes on the Horizon: A Conversation about Art Education in Vancouver • Amy Fung and Raymond Boisjoly

September 2021 • Office Hours: Pope.L: University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts

August 2021 • Interdisciplinariness and Learning the Future in Beijing: Experimental Art and Design at Central Academy of Fine Arts • Iris Long

August 2021 • Office Hours: Elissa Armstrong: Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts

July 2021 • Office Hours: Simon Leung: University of California, Irvine

July 2021 • Office Hours: Glen Helfand: California College of the Arts (CCA)

July 2021 • Office Hours: Danny Giles: Piet Zwart Institute

July 2021 • Office Hours: Filipa Ramos: Institute Art Gender Nature, FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel

June 2021 • RAT school of ART: Self-Learning and Building New Networks in Seoul • Sun A Moon

May 2021 • Learning What Can’t Be Taught: Reflections on Art Education through the Story of Six Artists from China • Anthony Yung and Özge Ersoy

April 2021 • Emergent Utopias: Three Experiments in Alternative Art Education: The Black School, 2727 California Street, and School of the Alternative • Lauren Stroh

March 2021 • On Divergent Art Education: A Case Study in Dark Study • Andrew Woolbright

February 2021 • No Access, No Fees: An Update on Art Education in the UK • Aleks Stanek

February 2021 • Ghost in the Machine • Ane Hjort Guttu, Sveinung R. Unneland, Katrine Østergaard, and Mathijs van Geest

January 2021 • “For the Founding of an Institution”: Asia Art Archive in America Leadership Camp III: “Model Minority and Model Majorities” • Owen Duffy

September 2020 • WHW Akademija: Learning at the Threshold of Another World • Ivana Bago

July 2020 • New Movements: Wandering Seminar, Campus Protest, and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UCSC • Brian Karl

June 2020 • Fellow Feeling: A Discussion of the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • Natilee Harren, Joseph Havel, and Mary Leclère

May 2020 • Course Correction: The UCU Strike and Art Education in the UK • Aleks Stanek

January 2020 • Representing the Real: RAW Académie 7: “Images for our time” • Renée Akitelek Mboya

October 2019 • New Dynamics: “The Big Shift” at Moderna Galerija • Tjaša Pogačar

September 2019 • Navigating Volatility: Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan • Hicham Awad

May 2019 • Beyond the Individual: “Expanded Sculpture” and the Social at the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo • Sara R. Yazdani

May 2019 • Social Studies: Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette Discuss Social Practice Queens • Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette

April 2019 • Aesthetic Education: Exhibition Practice and the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale • Premjish Achari

March 2019 • Quiet Forms of Revolution: 107th College Art Association Annual Conference • Rahel Aima

January 2019 • Within the Institution, Without Walls: Curatorial Research Bureau • Matt Sussman

January 2019 • Passing the Impasse: The Fifteenth Season of the Artist's Institute at Hunter College • Felix Bernstein

December 2018 • Terms of Exchange: "Poverty of Sensibility" at San Francisco Art Institute with China Academy of Art • Brian Karl

November 2018 • Writing as a Visible Practice: An Interview with Maria Fusco • Chris Sharratt

November 2018 • Support Structures: La Práctica and the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative • Marina Reyes Franco

October 2018 • Adaptable Platforms: Sommerakademie Paul Klee • Aoife Rosenmeyer

September 2018 • École du Magasin (1987–2016): Changing Horizons • Michela Alessandrini, Lore Gablier

September 2018 • École du Magasin (1987–2016): How Fitting an End • Michela Alessandrini, Lore Gablier, Estelle Nabeyrat

May 2018 • Learning through Doing: A Conversation with Steven Henry Madoff, Chair of SVA’s Masters in Curatorial Practice • Owen Duffy

April 2018 • Maumaus Independent Study Program: Acknowledging Space for “Trembling with the World” • Margarida Mendes

February 2018 • Season Zero: Making Time at Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design • Vanessa Thill

February 2018 • Accelerating Academia: The New Centre for Research & Practice • Owen Duffy

December 2017 • Making and Unmaking the Curator at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College • Vanessa Thill

November 2017 • Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art: A Berlin Intensive at the Juncture of Theory, Praxis, and Art • Jennifer Teets

October 2017 • Escuela de Arte Útil: A Proto-Institution Implementing Performance as Usefulness • Monica Westin

September 2017 • Land Arts of the American West: Creating a New Framework for Field Research • Liz Janoff

July 2017 • Out of the Ordinary: Learning in Public at Open School East • Chris Sharratt

June 2017 • The Cooper Union School of Art: More Than a Model of Free Education • Nicholas Chittenden Morgan

May 2017 • Critical Conditioning: The Institute for Art in Context at Berlin University of the Arts • Karen Archey

April 2017 • The Syllabus: A Peer-Led, Non-Prescriptive Postgraduate Alternative • Chris Sharratt

March 2017 • Kunstakademie Karlsruhe: A Classical Education with Contemporary Artists • Aoife Rosenmeyer

February 2017 • Embracing Inquiry at the Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Art • Huib Haye van der Werf

January 2017 • Considering Tradition, and the Election, at Yale School of Art • Owen Duffy

November 2016 • Not for Sale: The Alternative Art School Fair at Pioneer Works • Wendy Vogel

November 2016 • Practice Makes Perfect: The MFA at Glasgow School of Art • Chris Sharratt

October 2016 • Reassembling Time: The Alternative Pedagogy of Mildred’s Lane • Owen Duffy

September 2016 • CCC, TRANS, and WORK.Master at Geneva’s HEAD: Intergenerational MFAs of Non-Formatted Curricula • Jennifer Teets

August 2016 • Structural Integrity: Rooted Idealism at SFAI • Monica Westin

April 2016 • Outside the Art World’s Regimes: The MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art • Owen Duffy

February 2016 • Beyond the Critique: Goldsmiths College • Legacy Russell

January 2016 • The Master’s Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts: Redefining Interdisciplinary in the Twenty-First Century • Katherine Cooper

December 2015 • Agile Development: Being Nimble at California College of the Arts • Monica Westin

November 2015 • Collective Evolution, Inside and Out: CSUSB Community-based Art • Annie Buckley

November 2015 • VCUarts: Training for the Global Art World • Owen Duffy

October 2015 • Inside the Creative Factory: The MFA at the Zurich School of the Arts (ZHdK) • Aoife Rosenmeyer

October 2015 • SOMA: A Case Study in Artist-Run Education • Chris Sharp

August 2015 • Saving the Maker, Cultivating the Thinker: Painting at RISD’s MFA Program • Anne Prentnieks

July 2015 • Top-Notch, Top Dollar: Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Program • David Everitt Howe

June 2015 • In Theory: ArtCenter College of Design and a Few Notes on Art Schools in Southern California • Andrew Berardini

June 2015 • The Royal College of Art: Expanding Tradition at the "Best Art School in the World"* • Andrew Capetta

May 2015 • Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out

April 2015 • Rutgers: The MFA That’s Not 100k • Karen Archey

March 2015 • Critical Mass at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago • Andrew Capetta, Jason Foumberg

February 2015 • Reassembling Art Pedagogy: Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Climate Change at SciencesPo Experimentation in Arts and Politics • Jennifer Teets

January 2015 • Entering Basel’s Creative Triangle: The Master of Fine Arts at the Institut Kunst • Aoife Rosenmeyer

December 2014 • Frankfurt’s Städelschule: Free Artistic Work and the Paradox of Introversion • Kirsty Bell

September 2014 • "Making Sense is Radical to Making Art": The Bard MFA

June 2014 • Sunstroked and Rigorous: Some Notes on CalArts • Andrew Berardini

April 2014 • Re-skilling and rehousing an MFA: Hunter's recent transformation • Andrew Capetta, Tyler Coburn

April 2014 • De Appel Curatorial Programme: A jump cut interview with three protagonists • Natasha Ginwala

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