Culture and Context: Innovations in Education (organized session)
Wendy Weiss and Jennifer Angus

 

Three artist/educators explore ways in which they use the larger culture to inform how they encourage students to develop a creative process that interconnects with history, intuition, culture, religion, politics, and science. Each artist will discuss her particular way of establishing resonant themes. All three artists work from their areas of passion to develop teaching strategies and how they share and explore their own pre-occupations with the students. One speaker will discuss how she guides students to find their own voice and passion as she builds a solid technical foundation in the basic textile art forms, while another will show how she integrates historical research, intuitive empathy (the ability to sense what is going on in others as if it were happening emotionally and physically to oneself) and personal stories. The third speaker will discuss how she combined contemporary craft theory with practice to generate exhibition quality work on culturally challenging subjects. Providing specific models, this session is designed to initiate a conversation among the members of the Textile Society of America about how we teach and how we can foster an ongoing conversation about our teaching in the textile studio.

 

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