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Conversations Across Cultures

Reimagining the Education of the Artist

November 18-20, 2022

Teachers College, Columbia University & The Maryland Institute College of Art

Online Zoom Symposium

Post-pandemic reimagining of Higher Education has accelerated long simmering trends that now embrace how we think about the education of the artist and artist teachers. Debates about what it means to be an artist suggest a new plurality in our definitions of art itself that is fundamentally reorienting how we think about the place of art in the world. Art Schools have become central to the interweaving of local and global knowledge offering new perspectives and professional possibilities to aspiring artists.

Within this fast-moving transitional framework, the 2022 session of Conversations Across Cultures poses four questions for thoughtful reflection:

Who are the students now entering this expanding world of the Art School?
How is the move towards interdisciplinary and project-based teaching and learning reshaping the Art School experience?
What role (s) is the Art School playing in developing thriving cultural communities?
To what extent is the education of the artist re-energizing, reshaping, even creating new professional career opportunities?

Contributors to this session of CAC will include faculty from Teachers College Columbia University and from The Maryland Institute College of Art.

Please join us and give your voice to this important dialogue.

CAC is open to all TC and MICA faculty and students whose voices are integral to shaping our collective future. The conversations that engage educators and artists in higher education place in question the challenges we must meet together in these fast changing times.

Agenda

Friday, November 18

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Preliminary meeting for those registered for A&HA 4860

5:00pm - 6:00pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS

President of Maryland Institute College of Art, Samuel Hoi

with Responses from Judy Burton, Macy Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

6:00pm - 8:00pm | EXHIBITION OPENING

Macy Art Gallery Exhibition: Then and Now

Saturday, November 19

9:00am - 9:15am | OPENING REMARKS

Judy Burton, Macy Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

9:15am - 10:45am | SESSION 1 – QUESTION 1
Who are the students now entering this expanding world of the Art School?

Presenters
MICA, Mike Patterson, Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students
TC, Nicole Johnson, Instructor in Art and Art Education

Respondents – Student Panel
Carina Maye, Artie Sadahiro, Jamie Song

Audience Questions

10:45am - 11:00am | SHORT BREAK

11:00am - 12:30pm | SESSION 2 – QUESTION 2
How is the move towards interdisciplinary and project-based teaching and learning reshaping the Art School experience?

Presenters
MICA, Bill Gaskins, Founding Director, The Graduate Program in Photography + Media & Society
TC, Victoria Marsick, Academic Director, Adult Learning & Leadership, Department of Organization & Leadership
with Karen E. Watkins, Professor of Learning, Leadership & Organization Development, University of Georgia, Athens

Respondents – Student Panel
Minne Atairu, Larry Tung

Audience Questions

12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH BREAK

1:30pm - 3:00pm | SESSION 3 – QUESTION 3
What role(s) is the Art School playing in developing thriving cultural communities?

Presenters
MICA, Stacey Salazar, Vice Provost, Graduate Studies
TC, Ayelet Danielle Aldouby, Instructor and Social Practice Curator

Respondents – Student Panel
Stephanie Boggs, Marissa Vazhappilly, Jason Watson

Audience Questions

3:00pm - 3:15pm | SHORT BREAK

3:15pm - 4:45pm | SESSION 4 – QUESTION 4
To what extent is the education of the artist re-energizing, reshaping, even creating new professional career opportunities?

Presenters
MICA, Tiffany Holmes, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
TC, Chris Moffett, Research Scholar, Digital Futures Institute

Respondents – Student Panel
Victoria Cho, Susan Cohen-Small, Arzu Mistry

Audience Questions

4:45pm - 5:30pm | CLOSING REMARKS

Presenters
MICA, Jeanette Gerrity Gómez, Professor, Division of Liberal Arts
TC, Richard Jochum, Associate Professor of Art and Art Education

Sunday, November 20

9:00am - 12:30pm | STUDIO EXPERIENCE

Brief
Play
Shaping
Final
Discussion