IN-PERSON: Applying Education
Abstract
How can centering artistic and social problems be an effective tool in Art Education? This presentation by the Shortcuts for Teachers Artist Collective (STAC) considers our developed and shared process of problem-posing engagement in our multiple art classrooms—Universities, museums, public schools and community sites. Informed by frameworks of experiential learning and critical pedagogy, the presenters have taken to using problems rather than outcomes to foster classroom creation, develop lessons that encourage experimentation and self-reflection while inviting dialogue and reciprocity between students and each other, and student and teacher. In our view, it is from healthy and critical communities of learning that affirm students as individuals worthy and capable of artistic creation. In this presentation, we will introduce the frameworks which inform our teaching, and how they have informed our respective teaching environments. We will then use tangible examples from our practices to discuss the factors in making it work and the problems we have encountered with problem-based teaching. We are particularly interested in sharing our failures and tribulations, and how turning over to this process has forced us to re-develop as teachers. We will conclude by discussing our collaborations going forward.
David LeRue is an artist, educator and PhD candidate based in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a BFA from NSCAD University, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia. His painting practice connects landscape theory to the built environment, with a particular focus on how sporting events such as the Olympics permanently change their host cities. His doctoral project studies Montreal’s Peel Basin through community-engaged art teaching and research-creation. He is currently a painting instructor and collaborator with the Pointe-Saint-Charles art school and a part time professor at Concordia.
Breanna Shanahan (she/her/they) is a recent resident of the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas (Hamilton) Shanahan received her MFA at Concordia University in june 2019 and was a SSHRC recipient in 2017. She received her BFA from the University of Toronto and her Dip FA. from Sheridan College in Oakville. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, China, Austria, the United States of America and in Canada. Shanahan has taught Sculpture and Drawing courses across Canada at multiple post-secondary and community institutions. She is currently teaching at Sheridan College in the VCA department.; Jeannie Kyungjin Kim is an artist-educator currently based in Dundas, ON. She holds a MA from Concordia University (Art Education) and a Honours BA from University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College (Art and Art History). For more than six years, Kim has delivered various visual and digital art community programs across the Greater Toronto Area and Montreal as an Instructor for Pointe-St-Charles Art School. She has also taught at Concordia
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Friday 28th April, 2023