In this conversation, artist and educator Sadegh (Sepanta) Aleahmad speaks to Freelands Foundation Education Curator Nathan Marsh about his approaches to art education.
Sepanta expands on play, experimentation and interdisciplinarity in art education to question power relations, including the relationship between teacher and student and the position of art amongst other school subjects. Beginning with his own upbringing in Iran and his childhood dislike of art and moving through his rediscovery of art in adult life and subsequent journey as an artist, Sepanta uses his experiences to frame his ideas and approaches, interrogating the ways art is traditionally taught while presenting progressive and playful possibilities for how it could be taught.