As part of the final project for the course Facilitating the Art Experience during the fall semester of 2019, students use the class syllabus as material, and turn it into a creative project reflecting about their main learnings throughout the semester. We developed an art kit inspired by the Fluxus Group’s conceptual art kits. The group named the kit “Art Educators’ Survival Kit”. Each student contributed two pieces: one piece was an individual reflection and the other one was something salient about their collaborative teaching experience. The kit was also intervened by all the group, transforming a found object into the groups’ syllabus project. I also contributed a piece based on my invitation at the beginning of the semester to include embodiment as part of our art-teaching practice.
The Art Educators’ Survival Kit was exhibited alongside other class projects and students’ own work in an exhibited we organized as the final project of the class. The exhibit was called “Resonances of an Arts Encounter”, and was on view from December 10 - 17th 2019, at Flagg Hall, room 130. The main guiding question of the course was:
What can art education be?
The kit and the exhibit assume the challenge of integrating art teaching and making as single but multiplicitous practice, expanding the materials of art, and the practices of education. This site documents how artists-educators registered in the course Facilitating the Art Experience responded to the questions raised during the course and the translation in a creative medium. The object and its intervention is based on our conversations and encounters, and on how they evolved during the semester.
Why do I want to teach art? - Art Education Manifestos
Our response to our two over-arching questions [1) What can art education be?, 2) Why do I want to teach art?] initiated by the writing of art-education manifestos. Below is the documentation of some of the manifestos shared by artists-educators in this process.
