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SHIFT: Jess Gilbert
00:00/12:05
SHIFT: Jess Gilbert
00:00/12:05
00:00/12:05

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.

Artist-teacher Jess Gilbert discusses her approaches to art making as an act of research and discovery for both herself and her students.

Drawing from her first experience in a classroom as an artist in residence, Gilbert shares how her teaching is informed by viewing students as collaborators and introduces frameworks for students to play and take risks within the classroom. 

She encourages students to 'think like artists', embrace the uncertainty of open-ended enquiry as a process of discovery, and adopt making as a method of research.

About the film

This film is part of SHIFT, Freelands Foundation’s quarterly series of short films spotlighting varied practices, approaches and philosophies within art education. 

Captions and editing: Sixbetween.

All audiovisual material and research is courtesy of the artist.

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