Arts Practice in Research Universities
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‘SmartSurfaces: A Multidisciplinary, Hands-on Think-Tank’ is a 3 credit, cross-disciplinary studio course that is team taught by professors from three different University of Michigan units (John Marshall – School of Art & Design; Max Shtein – Materials Science & Engineering; and Karl Daubmann – Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning). The course has been [...]
Thirty-nine leaders from 30 Research I universities have worked in strategic task forces since September 2011 to advance the integration of art-making into the university. Their progress through February is captured in a new comprehensive interim report. The report is rich with tools, arguments, examples, and insights generated in a short time by committed leaders. [...]
Our colleague Keith Sawyer recently commented on Katherine Gieuffre’s recent essay on the relationship of social network density to a population’s creativity. Given the lone soul mythos associated with many writers (such as Emily Dickinson, Paul Gauguin, and Charlotte Bronte), Gieuffre set out to compare the level of correspondence of many artist’s during their creative [...]
Veteran arts education consultant and activist, Jane Remer, provides invaluable perspective and advice from more than 40 years’ worth of observation, analysis, and advocacy. Remer writes, “In the pages that follow, I scour the vivid lessons learned in schools around the country to identify the conditions necessary for effective arts teaching and learning on the [...]
In this detailed policy review and case study, University of Texas, Austin faculty Julian Vasquez Heilig, Heather Cole, and Angelica Aguilar, trace the impact of both federal and state legislation on K-12 arts education in Texas. Alas, the story arc — from the 1950s to the present — is one of steady disinvestment. This is [...]
From Alva Noe, philosopher at CUNY’s Graduate Center (submitted by Satinder Baveja, Professor of Electrical Engineering, U-M): “the work of art, whatever its local subject matter or specific concerns – God, life, death, politics, the beautiful, art itself, perceptual consciousness – and whatever its medium, is doing something like philosophical work. One consequence of this [...]
Here’s some promising news out of the National Endowment for the Arts: for the first time ever, thirteen federal agencies are collaborating to explore the role of the arts in human development across the life span. The interagency task force — chaired by the National Endowment for the Arts and by the Department of Health [...]
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