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Performance art is absent from most mainstream art education; how could it impact the wider school ecology?
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SHIFT: Sarah Christie
Artist and educator Sarah Christie discusses her interdisciplinary work using clay as a means of facilitating different modes of observation – both artistic and scientific – through touch.
14-min watch
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Examining the Social in Practice
Jacqueline Donachie and Alistair Hudson, in conversation, with Catriona Whiteford, on the possibilities of collaboration between artist and institution, and moving beyond the limitations of 'art speak'.
6-min read
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Why Artists Should Teach
A conversation on the relationship between teaching and artistic practice with Joseph Cartwright, Jenny Eden and Shepherd Manyika, chaired by Raksha Patel.
51-min listen
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SHIFT: Terri Newman
Artist, educator and researcher Terri Newman discusses her research into collaborative pedagogies in the art classroom.
9-min watch
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SHIFT: India Harvey
Artist and researcher India Harvey explores how notions such as play can challenge perceptual and sensory hierarchies, opening up different ways of engaging with the world.
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West Rise, School by the Marsh
A documentary about West Rise Junior School in Eastbourne, which takes a hands-on, outdoors-oriented approach to learning, informed by the school’s location on the site of a Bronze Age settlement.
16-min watch
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Visualising Art Education
Shade podcast presents a five-part series of conversations with art educators and practitioners that springboard the chapters of the Visualise report.
139-min listen
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ARTISTEACHER Toolkit
Guidance on facilitating experimentation and creative risk-taking within the classroom using 'Which Way is Up?', a set of imaginative prompts designed by Hannah Rennie and Shepherd Manyika with Cement Fields.
2-min read
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SHIFT: A Particular Reality
Student/educator collective A Particular Reality (APR) discuss the themes underpinning their nuanced pedagogies by, with, and for marginalised and minoritised people.
11-min watch
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SHIFT: Michael Crowe
‘Take your time to make sure you get it wrong’ is the principle for the after-school class ‘Spaghetti Club’, explains Michael Crowe in this film describing the content and outcomes of the programme.
22-min watch
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SHIFT: Hannah Kemp-Welch
Sound artist Hannah Kemp-Welch presents aspects of her research into Sound Arts Practice, including exploring the role of listening as a social art practice and the tensions around participation, ownership and representation in socially engaged art.
7-min watch
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The Studio as a Site of Community and Collective Action
A conversation on the potential for studio spaces to contribute to a diverse and inclusive art world with Dr Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Dyana Gravina, Jane Morrow, and Rosalind Nashashibi.
54-min listen
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SHIFT: Melissa Bremmer & Emiel Heijnen
Melissa Bremmer and Emiel Heijnen discuss the philosophies behind their book Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education (2020), and how the assignment as artwork can help facilitate students’ creative processes.
11-min watch
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SHIFT: Jose Campos and Oliver Herbert
Artist teachers Jose Campos and Oliver Herbert discuss their teaching practices during lockdown; re-igniting experimentation while taking stock of 'the new normal' through using everyday materials in their remote lessons.
14-min watch
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Visualise: Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education
A landmark research commission and report on race and inclusion in art education in the UK.
185-min read
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Resist - Things Artists Do While Learning To Teach
A documentary follows a year in the collaborative project between the Institute of Education (University College London) and Freelands Foundation.
24-min watch
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SHIFT: Jess Gilbert
Artist-teacher Jess Gilbert discusses her methodologies for encouraging students to play, take risks and embrace the uncertainty of process-led learning.
12-min watch
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Should We Teach Art?
Responses by Juan Bolivar, Michele Gregson and Munira Mirza, chaired by Andy Ash.
71-min listen
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Thinking Making
A documentary that explores the work of Plymouth College of Art and its pioneering approach to art education.
29-min watch
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Edges of Edie Evans
A response to the practice of Edie Evans during their fellowship at Swansea College of Art.
5-min read
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SHIFT: Katherine Smith
Artist Katherine Smith discusses her investigation into using materials as an interface for connection to the body.
18-min watch
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Championing making practices in UK art schools
A reflection on five years of thinking, teaching and practicing painting in UK higher education by Freelands Foundation.
8-min read
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Art Schools, Place and Policy
Dr Silvie Jacobi and Dr Matthew Macaulay explore the landscape of Art Schools through tracing the impact of changes to policy on teaching, learning and public perception.