A symposium on art pedagogy and its impact in Glasgow viewed from the position of professionals involved in teaching and learning.

As part of my research role at Glasgow School of Art I organised an event at Tramway, Glasgow on 10 December 2015 as part of their Tate/Turner Prize events, on behalf of GSA and Alistair Payne, Head of Fine Art, who chaired the event. This was one in a series of ‘Turner Prize Thursdays’ accompanying the exhibition from 8 October – 14 January 2016. The Turner Prize 2015 exhibition was open until 8pm every Thursday evening, accompanied by a different talk, panel discussion or curated event.

How Do You Make a Glaswegian Artist?
10 December, 7pm.

A discussion bringing together a number of speakers who are in their different ways at the coalface of Art Education, representing the stages of art education in the city and Scotland, from school, further and higher art education.

Speakers will be invited to talk about their ‘take’ on art education from their own position, what they believe are the values, problems, issues, what its ‘for’- how it does or does not connect with other pieces of the jigsaw? And at the end we try to tease out how these positions may or may not connect and perhaps how they could join up in a way that might better join the dots?

Chaired by Dr Alistair Payne, Head of the School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art and event devised by Ross Sinclair, Reader in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art.

A Turner Thursday event by The Glasgow School of Art in collaboration with Tramway.

The aim of the event was to bring together, at least for one night only, professionals involved in the education of artists at all different stages from around the city and I’m wanted to get on the same platform voices that less often have a public forum to discuss these issues from their own perspective (albeit briefly!). And additionally I invited an external voice to help contextualize the situation from outside. At GSA we are, or course, involved in an ongoing discussion on the journey of all our students, from how they ‘get to’ art school, how their learning develops whilst at GSA and what happens after the leave. However I wanted to explore a perceived lack of transparency across the different strata of learning and teaching. This event opened out that discussion for a couple of hours.

I invited educators who are involved in teaching in:

High School - Susan Breckenridge, Hutcheson’s Grammar School, Glasgow
FE College - Russell MacEwan, City of Glasgow College
Portfolio preparation Class - William Nelson, Visual Art Studio, Tramway
Art School, Paul Cosgrove, Programme Leader, Sculpture/Environmental Art
PhD candidate, Catherine Owen, University of Glasgow
Artist Run Gallery, Sophie Pitt, Committee Member, Transmission Gallery

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