The group brings together researchers focused on artists’ pedagogies, taken in its broadest understanding to encompass music, dance, theatre, performance and art making. It welcomes research focused on different learning environments including academies, universities, and alternative art schools. It asks what it means for artists to teach artists, how different forms of art are taught, how they might be taught, and why they are taught in those ways.
The group consists of over 250 members who are split into numerous subgroups each exploring a different aspect of artist pedagogy from a cross disciplinary perspective. Important to our approach is by looking across the boundaries that have traditionally separate the fields of the arts so that we might learn from each other and ask what traditions are important, which innovations are significant, and how wider developments in artistic research might influence our teaching?
It seeks to explore the territories of different subjects in parallel to interrogate those areas which are shared or entwined, and the liminal spaces in between. The group brings together the highest quality research in the field, enable opportunities for interdisciplinary pedagogical research, and acts as a space for sharing methods, methodologies, and research outcomes. In doing so it deepens our knowledge and understanding of creative education and help us to better understand its potential futures.
ORGANISERS
Emily Huurdeman
Artist, researcher, educator.
Research: Essaying as collective and performative practice.
/ PD-candidate, Lectorate Artistic Connective Practices, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg NL / Pre-PhD candidate, Dual PhD Centre, Leiden University, The Hague NL / Teacher at Master Art Education, Fontys Academy of the Arts, Tilburg NL /
/ Board member Mouse Ear Concerts, Amsterdam, NL / Advisory board member, HKU lectorate Expanding Artistic Practices, NL / FNV, LAC HBO Union representative, NL /
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Magnus Quaife
Magnus Quaife is Professor of Artists Pedagogy at the Academy of Fine Art Helsinki. He is an artist, educator, and researcher.
Quaife is a founding director of the organisation Teaching Painting, and on the steering committee of the International Network of Foundation Educators (INFE).
He worked at Manchester School of Art for over 15 years and fulfilled roles including the departmental International Lead, Employability Lead, and the programme leader for Fine Art. He has been visiting lecturer/professor at institutions including the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, and the Academy of Fine Art Munich.
