Abstract
How do students who have participated in a community partnership with professionals in the creative arts sector and art institutions articulate their role as emerging artists in society? In this paper we are interested in exploring how students etch out a space for their own practice within an existing art community, and some of the challenges in doing so. Drawing on interview data as well as student creative work and reflections from two university level visual arts courses in which students participated in arts-based community partnerships, we highlight students’ negotiations with becoming artists in society as a messy and complex process. In particular, we explore how notions of uncertainty and unknowing (Atkinson, 2013) are integral to the configuration of the artist. Finally, we explore the potentials of experiential learning and its academic contextualization in the classroom and how it informs students’ thinking in the visual arts and their future role as professional artists.
Presenters
Christine D'onofrioAssociate Professor of Teaching, Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Canada Paulina Semenec
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KEYWORDS
"Unknowing", " Emerging Artists", " Experiential Learning"
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