ART§CHOOL presents an entirely new perspective on arts higher education. ART§CHOOL attempts to wholly re-envisage the structures of higher arts and art education pedagogies. The communication between fine arts education and art-ed students is close to nil, and is a symptom of a broader malaise which threatens the progress of the artist of this new century. Divorced from an educative perception of their own artworks, many artists today are slowly becoming aware of the treadmill running between the art institutions, the galleries and the museums. This form of arts education delivers gallery ready artists to an industry that cannot function without artists, yet demands that they operate within a bracketed autonomy, in turn described by the whims of the art market.
Commodification of the art object can be approached in a different way, it can be steered by artists rather than the market and it can be linked to the educative potential that forms the history of the discipline of visual arts. ART§CHOOL will push its professors and students to go beyond the boundaries set up for them by an educative elite closely allied with industry’s goals. ART§CHOOL will be created as a model of innovation and will employ this paradigm across all its course offerings. Professors and instructors will be representatives from the 3 fields our courses subdivide into: namely studio, theory and criticism. The students will create for themselves a mixture of teaching and art practice that will enable them to pursue their discipline most creatively. Required courses will bring together art and art education students, collapsing conventions that separate the two. Without clear reasoning, it has become a given that art-ed and fine art are taught in totally separate departments. By bringing the two together, we can dispense with traditional misreading and assumptions about an ‘appropriate’ place for art and art-ed, and truly galvanize art education by the creation of a third, totally new prospect; art students who graduate vastly more aware of fine art’s pedagogic implications within their international society, and beyond the fascia of the gallery system.
After incorporation ART§CHOOL will become a recognized (501c3) non-profit organization. ART§CHOOL has a mission and has established goals, which will be met by moving in a timely manner through Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the business plan.
Phase 1:
Goal: to raise funds and awareness sufficient to: run an architecture competition; fund the development of the NPO into a school of higher learning; fund the NPO’s daily operations, including staff and incumbent construction costs.
Phase 2:
To complete construction and testing of ART§CHOOL premises; To recruit students; to secure host city for ART§CHOOL’s first relocation; to initiate first semester; to successfully compete for education awards and grant for development;
Administration:
From initiation, this school will be a non-profit arts organization. As a first step, ART§CHOOL will recruit arts development, arts fundraising, arts events and arts administrative professionals to raise funds and organize protocols for the school as an effective and successful NPO.
This layer of management will be augmented by a faculty that are known for a professional record of innovation within their pedagogic practice, along with successful realization of projects. Faculty will be contracted for a maximum of 5 years; it is anticipated that many faculty tenured will desire a shorter contract due to successive projects. (There will be an administrative HR staff member dedicated to a constant search for new staff).
Delivery:
Assessment:
Students are assessed each semester by their advisor. This assessment is a collusion of several factors:
A review of the students’ log or diary entries;
A review of the students’ artwork, both past and present to enable a macro view of progress made over the semester;
A comparison of the students’ required/elective course grades;
A meeting with the student to asses their satisfaction with their own performance in line with their projected aspirations for the course;
Intention of ART§CHOOL curriculum:
Revitalization of art education and art-ed education via:
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