Framework Panel #7

Art School, Confidential: Rethinking Art Education

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

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

Presented in partnership with George Washington University and 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), this panel brought 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.