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Artist-Teachers in Context

International Dialogues

Authors:

  1. Raphael Vella

    1. University of Malta, Malta

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  • The book provides readers with a series of interviews with artist-teachers based in countries around the world as well as an introduction that begins to extract possible confluences and specificities that emerge from these interviews
  • Brought together by Raphael Vella, himself an educator as well as a practising visual artist, the interviews engage both with the complex identities of artist-teachers and the international contexts in which they were brought up, trained and teach
  • This contextual dimension serves to highlight the role that locality may play in the aspirations of teachers who are also artists, yet this socio-political aspect is balanced in the book by the importance it also grants to the individuality of each artist, represented by images and descriptions of their unique art works and performances

Part of the book series: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education (DATA)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Not Only a Dry Run

    • Joachim Kettel
    Pages 177-185

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 197-203
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About this book

This book brings together interviews with twenty-one artist-teachers from different parts of the world, offering many insights into their identities, challenges and creative and pedagogic practices they have adopted. Based in a range of educational situations—from compulsory to post-secondary education, art schools, departments of art education and community-based environments—these educators discuss their own training in fine art and/or art education, research interests, teaching methods and theoretical outlooks, collaborative projects, students’ ambitions, exhibitions and the different approaches they use to connect their educational and artistic commitments. The discussions take place against a contextual backdrop that is tackled in every interview, bringing to the fore the impact of social, political, historical and institutional frameworks on artist-teachers. Illustrated with images of works and projects by each artist-teacher in the book, the volume combines the visual and the verbal in a way that reflects the complex experiences and identities of the interviewees.


Raphael Vella is a Senior Lecturer in Art Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Apart from coordinating and teaching in art education courses, he also teaches courses in fine art and theory. His publications address the relationships between contemporary artistic practices and education, art education in the Mediterranean, identity in art education, photography and cultural studies, and arts-based research. He is also actively involved in the curation of international and Maltese exhibitions and cultural events, and in recent years he initiated projects such as Divergent Thinkers (aimed at creating a platform for emerging artists based in Malta) and the Valletta International Visual Arts festival (VIVA). He is also a practising artist, having shown his work in many contexts, including Malta, Venice, Warsaw, Tokyo, Reims, Buenos Aires, Nicosia and Oxford.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Malta, Malta

    Raphael Vella

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Artist-Teachers in Context

  • Book Subtitle: International Dialogues

  • Authors: Raphael Vella

  • Series Title: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-633-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-633-0Published: 18 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 204

  • Topics: Education, general

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