FATE’s (Foundations in Art Theory and Education) 17th Biennial Conference Foundations in Flux will be hosted by Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio

The Museum as Studio-Lab

Object study, sketching, and exhibition collaboration are common opportunities for art and art history students at academic art museums and galleries. As institutions that hold the stewardship of the collection and student engagement at their core, these activities are a natural fit. This session explores how else can we imagine courses investigating and interacting with museum collections. What would it look like for the museum to serve as a studio-laboratory for studio art and art history courses? While most faculty would agree on the importance of incorporating museums into the curriculum, it can be a daunting prospect. It is a particularly challenging question in regards to foundation and survey courses, which already face the burden of imparting a vast amount of knowledge and refining key skills in a short time frame. Some questions to consider include: What has worked in bridging classroom-museum partnerships? How can the museum better serve foundations and survey classes? What would a museum as a studio or lab look like? What opportunities do digital technologies offer to a course-museum collaboration?

Please submit your 200 word proposal through the FATE website: https://www.foundations-art.org/conference by September 25, 2018.