Making and Being

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jahoda, Susan, author.

Woolard, Caroline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Textbooks.

Education.

General education--Textbooks.

General education.

Humanities--Textbooks.

Humanities.

Arts--Textbooks.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York Pioneer Works Press 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Making and Being offers a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. Authors Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two visual arts educators and members of the collective BFAMFAPhD*, share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range widely, from self-organized workshops for professional artists to Foundations BFA and MFA thesis classes. This hands-on guide includes activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for artists and art educators today. Making and Being is a book, a series of videos, a deck of cards, and an interactive website with freely downloadable content (click on links below to download worksheets, activities, and chapters as PDFs and editable Google Docs). *BFAMFAPhD is a collective that formed in 2012 to make art, reports, and teaching tools to advocate for cultural equity in the United States. The work of the collective is to bring people together to analyze and reimagine relationships of power in the arts. BFAMFAPhD core members are: Susan Jahoda, Emilio Martínez Poppe, Agnes Szanyi, Emily Tareila, Vicky Virgin, and Caroline Woolard. We wrote this book for those of you who want a holistic art education that includes how to be both more fully present with yourself and with others. The term holistic means that the parts of any given system are intimately interconnected; that they are understandable only in relation to the whole system. How can you talk about making a new project without talking about labor conditions? How can you talk about labor conditions without talking about payment? It’s time to address your artistic labor, your budgets your storage units, your gifts, and your well-being.

Contents:

Part 1: Entry Points

Part 2: Spaces of Learning

Chapter 1: Why Now

Chapter 2: Spaces of Learning

Chapter 3: Who Do You Honor?

Chapter 4: Teacher/Facilitator Guides (The First Five Weeks)

Part 3: Capacities

Chapter 5: Capacities

Chapter 6: How Are You in the World and How Is the World in You?

Part 4: The Lifecycle Framework

Chapter 7: Lifecycle Phases and Framework

Chapter 8: Understanding the Lifecycle Framework from Multiple Perspectives

Chapter 9: Support

Chapter 10: Source

Chapter 11: Depart

Chapter 12: Transfer

Chapter 13: Labor

Chapter 14: Narrate

Chapter 15: Encounter

Chapter 16: Tools

Chapter 17: Copyright

Chapter 18: Acquire

Part 5: To Be Continued

Chapter 19: Imaging the Future

Chapter 20: How We Work

Notes:

Description based on print resource