What is the Artist Teacher Scheme?
The Artist Teacher Scheme is a continuing professional development course run in partnership between the New Art Gallery Walsall (TNAGW), the Ikon Gallery and Birmingham City University. It offers artist teachers opportunities to reappraise, reinforce or re-engage with their own thiking and personal development as artists by extending their awareness of the richness and complexity of contemporary fine art practice and the diversity of thiking and influences which inform it.
The course is designed to lead on to the MA Art Practice and Education (see menu of courses).
Stage 1 Course Fee £275
Stage 2 Course Fee £180
Number of Places 15
Contact: kate.broom@bcu.ac.uk
General benefits of the Scheme
• renewing or increasing your confidence in introducing contemporary thinking and practice into your own activity as an artist
• acquiring and enhancing knowledge and skills
• generating new ideas
• increasing the satisfaction you gain from your re-charged creative practice and, as a result, the effectiveness of your work in your own studio and in education
• developing professionally important networks of artists, gallery and museum professionals and academic staff in higher education
• opportunities for further research
Provisions of the Scheme
• seminar facilities
• informed and supportive access to contemporary art
• tuition, critique and support by academic staff and visiting artist lecturers
• structured as well as informal discussion and debate
• pathways to MA qualifications and further research
Who can apply?
The course is open to
• teachers of art and design with a graduate qualification in art and design who currently work in primary, secondary, further or higher education
• artist educators with a graduate qualification in art and design who work in schools, museum and gallery education or other institutions where art and education are central to practice.
It is not essential for teachers applying for the course to have maintained their individual art practice.
This programme has two stages and takes advantage of the innovative artistic and interpretative programme of The New Art Gallery Walsall and the Ikon Galley alongside the academic excellence of the School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University. The programme will enable teachers to re-engage with developments within contemporary Fine Art practice and theory at the highest level, to re-establish or reappraise their own art practice and reassess their approach to teaching with regard to both content and modes of delivery.
The Stage 1 Summer School & Stage 2 Saturday Schools offer artist teachers a stimulating, concentrated programme of studio practice, seminars and gallery visits in which to explore practice, ideas and influences within contemporary fine art which can form starting points for an integrated approach to their own practice and teaching.
Stages 1 & 2 are designed as one course but can be attended separately. Stage 1 will enable students to establish a basis for continuing practice. Stage 2 will provide ongoing support through workshops, lectures and seminars.
Students who are interested in further study at MA level should contact the course director for details of the range of available study options and requirements for entry to the following courses:
Stage 1: Summer School
Monday 27th July to Friday 31st July 2009
An intensive five-day course consisting of:
• studio practice sessions in which participants will make new work
• seminars exploring different aspects of contemporary art such as modernism and post-modernism, critical theory, cross-cultural influences, the politics of gender and sexuality and the impact of new technologies on art practice
• guided tours of The New Art Gallery Walsall including its latest exhibitions
• at The New Art Gallery Walsall, participants will be able to go behind the scenes of the latest exhibition installation.
The course is delivered by academic staff at the School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, BCU and staff from the New Art Gallery Walsall and the Ikon Gallery including Françoise Dupré, David Cheeseman, who are practicing artists and theorists.
Stage 1 can be taken alone or as an introduction to the Stage 2 Saturday Schools.
Stage 2 - eight Saturday Workshop (average - one a month)
Contact: kate.broom@bcu.ac.uk
