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The one thing that an art school never tells you is that they cannot teach you how to be an artist.
Robert Gober
Teaching art is difficult because making art is so personal. Over many years of being a teacher, I
tried to discover ways of addressing this crucial problem. I was always determined to teach in a
way that would not encourage anyone to make work that looked like or deliberately emulated
mine. What interests me was in influencing how students thought about their work, how they
approached it, not what it looked like nor what its contents might be. I wanted to be as nonprescriptive as possible, to acknowledge the infinite diversity of art. Michael Craig-Martin
RPWG is an open seminar for re-envisioning art education, addressing the basic question: Is it
possible to teach artists at all? The fact that artists write lectures, compile reading lists,
assemble programs and found schools, proposes an array of possible answers. Every week we
will focus on texts created as pedagogical tools by artist-teachers, discussing content while
analyzing the strategies and underlying philosophical program. We will also be joined by guest
speakers to discuss their experiments and experiences in the classroom.