Art Education: Education Art: A brief history of schools founded by artists
by Kenny Schachter with Seth Cameron
Géza, 306 Maujer
“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.”
–Joseph Beuys quoted in Beuys Kompass: A lexicon of the conversations of Joseph Beuys, Monika Angerbauer, 1998.
“…if one takes a step backwards and sees Josef Albers work as a teacher and institution-builder, he can begin to look more like a conceptual artist. There is an Albers whose true medium is not paint but school.”
–Ellen Levy, A book about Ray 2024.
In conjunction with Amant’s exhibition On Education, this lecture by Kenny Schachter, with a response by Seth Cameron, will discuss how artists have historically taken education to another level by initiating alternative institutions. In doing so, these artists proactively contributed to instilling a broader, more experiential, and more experimental foundation of knowledge for future students to draw from.
Highlighting enterprises such as John Ruskin’s School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford (1871), the Bruce High Quality Foundation University (2009–2017)—of which Cameron was a founder—and Tracey Emin’s Artist Residency (TEAR) in Margate (2023), the discussion will explore artists’ particular (and unique) manner of explication of techniques, as well as the technologies and strategies they have used to gain a foothold in the notoriously treacherous and unwelcoming ecosystem that is the art world.
Amant programs are always free. RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Seating is first come, first served, with some standing room available. Doors for Art Education: Education Art will open at 6:15pm on Wednesday, May 21 in Géza located at 306 Maujer.