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Adapting Techniques of Studio Critique for Arts Management Pedagogy

2013; Routledge; Volume: 43; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10632921.2013.775980

1930-7799

Adelheid Mers,

Art Education and Development

Abstract Many students in the field of arts management have a background as practicing artists. In that light, it seems promising to explore fine arts pedagogies for the delivery of elements of arts management curricula. Studio critiques are a central pedagogic tool in arts education, allowing for systemic self-reflexivity that emerges from a shared interest in the terms of the conversation itself—critique as a creative technique. Since 2009, the Department of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has integrated critique. Feedback from the first generations of students is assessed in this article. Keywords: arts management pedagogyfine art pedagogystudio critique Acknowledgments I would like to thank Anna Festa, Penny Duff, Karen Patterson, Claudia Arzeno, and Katie Kurcz for submitting frank comments. Notes 1. Compare: Association of Arts Administration Educators, "Find a Program" page (http://www.artsadministration.org/find) and Arts Management Network, "Course Directory" page (http://www.artsmanagement.net/index.php?module=Education). 2. Following a long hiatus after the first attempt to comprehensively address that question, by Alexander Baumgarten in this Aesthetica from 1750, arts epistemologies are only recently finding interest, mainly in the context of the "Art as Research" discourse. See, for example, Sullivan (2010 Sullivan, Graeme. 2010. Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts. 2nd ed, New York: Sage Publications. [Google Scholar]) and Biggs and Karlsson (2010 Biggs, Michael and Karlsson, Henrik. 2010. The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts, New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]). 3. The critique situation is limited to this setting, because its further expansion would necessitate extensive curricular adjustments—for example, giving first-year MA students access to individual advisors, as MFA students have. We are currently carefully exploring curricular changes across the program that are inspired by the studio situation.