Joint Exhibition Openings
In speaking to art and design education, one tends to
reference curriculum, the students taught, the educational contexts, and
teachers’ pedagogy; but what about our own unique experiences of, and affective,
experiential and aesthetic responses to teaching and learning? Our process as
artists inextricably intertwines art making and multileveled learning. We are
responsive to and responsible for our own personal and project development and
their realization. As art and design educators we reflect on our teaching
moments and in doing so inform our art practice; this is a reciprocal and
complex relationship.
Two concurrent exhibitions at OCAD University and at OISE,
University of Toronto strategically and evocatively map artist-teachers
learning as process, as evocation and as provocation.
Artists
Teaching//Learning Zone, 122 St Patrick Street, OCAD University
Opening
Oct 30th 12 - 2.30pm ǀ Artists Talk: 1pm ǀ Runs to Nov 29
Graduates of
OCADU’s Art and Design Education Lab (ADEL) present visual and new media work
that reveals and explores the anxieties, pleasures and challenges they have
encountered as emerging educators in their art and design learning and
teaching.
Artists:
Hudson Christie, Megan D’Angelo, Nazli Nahidi, Hareem Qureshy, Peter Rahul,
Julia Sardinha, Angelina Stoilkova, Cassidy Tam.
Curatorial
Advisors: Marta Chudolinska, Pam Patterson, Daniel Payne, Leena Raudvee.
Teaching
Artists// CWSE Hallway Gallery, OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, 2nd
floor, University of Toronto Opening Oct 28th 5.30-7pm ǀ Artists
Talk: 6pm ǀ Runs to Nov 29
Artists JJ
Lee, Mei Lee Ogden, Amy Swartz and Natalie Waldburger present work in paint and
scripto-visual drawing that addresses both the playfulness and complex nature
of the art and learning relationship. Lee’s works on paper, originally painted
collaboratively with her young daughter Mei, speak to the nature of risk,
trust, care, creativity and mutuality found in this unique art making and
learning relationship. Swartz’s and Waldburger’s intertwined texts draw and map
a process of joint discussion.
Curatorial
Collective: Pam Patterson, Leena Raudvee, Hareem Quershy.