Diversity Stories

In Teaching Art, creative writing teacher Dennis Gaens looks into what it means to teach art in the present day. In this thee part series he looks into where we teach art, who teaches it and what exactly is being taught.  In this first episode, he first looks into some legendary art schools with art historian Joanne Dijkman. In the second part, he discusses the classroom and how we should approach it with writers and teachers Lorena Briedis and Jesse Ball.  A transcript for this episode is available at https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/   Notes:  You can read more about Joanne Dijmkman’s PHD research here: https://www.artez.nl/en/research/professorship/art-education-as-critical-tactics/research-group/joanne-dijkman.    Information on the Black Mountain College exhibition at the Hamburger Banhof can be found here: https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/black-mountain-an-interdisciplinary-experiment-1933-1957/. The accompanying book was published by Spector: https://spectorbooks.com/black-mountain-en.