FRAMEWORK Panel #7 - Art School, Confidential: Rethinking Art Education

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
6:45 - 8:15pm

George Washington University
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
801 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC

Transformer kicks off the new year with the 7th installment of the dynamic FRAMEWORK Panel Series. Designed as a facilitated discussion focused on the changing values and practices in the sphere of art education, Art School, Confidential: Rethinking Art Education brings together an esteemed group of area artists and professors in a dialogue about the influence of art schools in the lives of artists and on the direction of contemporary art-making within the larger arts landscape.

Featuring panelists Billy Colbert (Adjunct Faculty, American University), Maggie Michael, Brandon Morse (Associate Professor of Digital Media & Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art, University of Maryland, College Park, MD), Renee Stout, and Rex Weil (Professor of Art Theory, University of Maryland, College Park, MD), and moderated by Dean Kessman (Assistant Professor of Photography, George Washington University), the panel discussion will be followed by a thirty minute question and answer segment with the audience.

Attendance for this event is free. Seating will be on a first come, first seated basis.