On Mar 13, 2010, at 9:23 AM, William Conger wrote: > Maybe the old Art Students League model is best after all. No set curricula, no administrative assessments, no degrees, just good teaching by established artists, chosen by students, not assigned to them. But no artists from the League would obtain cushy tenure track jobs in today's art academia.
Would any ASL student want such a job? There are three intertwined interests here, William: What the student wants to learn, what the teacher wants to teach, and what credentials some parties want to uphold. Credentials are ways to qualify for a job. If you want the job and it calls for a certain qualification, then get the qualification or change your goal. When you see an exhibition at a gallery, do you ever look at the artist's list of previous exhibitions? Does that change your reactions to the show? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
