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Drawing Symposium

Posted: 25 March 2019 - 10:42pm

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All Party Parliamentary Working Group

Posted: 25 March 2019 - 10:34pm
Annual Conference

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NSEAD National Conference and AGM 2019

Posted: 6 January 2019 - 4:28pm
Annual Conference

Why is art, craft and design important for the economy, society and ourselves?
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Extreme Views Day Barrow

Posted: 5 January 2019 - 2:17pm

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LIVING RESEARCH: THE URGENCY OF THE ARTS

Posted: 19 November 2018 - 8:10am
Research Student Conference PhD

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Making Public: The Fine Art Degree Show

Posted: 6 November 2018 - 1:05pm
Annual Symposium Call Out

Abstracts of 200 to 500 words by January 11th, 2019.
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The Mack must be rebuilt

Posted: 21 June 2018 - 9:29pm
Glasgow School of Art

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British Abstract Painting in the Eighties

Posted: 27 February 2018 - 9:43pm
Symposium Painting Abstract

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Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Coventry University

Posted: 18 December 2017 - 9:23am

Coventry University School of Art and Design is seeking an innovative and experienced educator to join the Fine Art team.
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Austerity, Adversity, Art?

Posted: 12 December 2017 - 9:24pm
Annual Symposium Call Out

Austerity, Adversity, Art?
Fine Art education as a site of social and political resistance, initiative and engagement
Call for papers - Deadline Extended to:
29th ...
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15th ELIA Biennial Conference

Posted: 28 November 2017 - 3:48pm
ELIA Call Out Conference

The Steering Group of the 15th ELIA Biennial Conference invites colleagues from ELIA member institutions from all artistic disciplines to contribute to the programme and showcase their practices in...
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The second Research Excellence Framework

Posted: 9 September 2017 - 12:46pm
HEFCE REF

Applications are now being invited for the role of sub-panel chair for the REF 2021 exercise.
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DRAWING CONVERSATIONS 2

Posted: 3 April 2017 - 6:47pm
Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited for this one-day symposium intended to consider interrelationships of drawing, body, space and place.
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Foundations of a Creative Curriculum

Posted: 12 March 2017 - 10:40pm

The Deadline for Proposals has now been extended to Friday 14th of April. A history of innovation in art and design education has cultivated generations of creative individuals.
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PARADOX Biennial Conference Deadline extended

Posted: 19 February 2017 - 3:49pm
Conference

Call for Papers: Deadline extended to 21 April 2017 Building on the success of conferences in Poznan (2015), Granada (2013), Cork (2011) and Palermo (2009) the 2017 Paradox European Fine Art forum...
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EQ Arts is looking for experts in Fine Art

Posted: 24 January 2017 - 5:16pm

EQ-Arts announces its 2017 reviewer’s training for those working in higher arts education who are interested in participating in international external quality assurance processes across Europe and...
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Call for submissions Deadline Extended

Posted: 15 November 2016 - 11:22pm
Conference

NAFAE invites proposals for papers/artworks/creative responses for their up-coming annual symposium and accompanying exhibition.
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External examiner

Posted: 6 November 2016 - 4:14pm
Art History Fine Art

BA(Hons) History of Art and Fine Art at University of Chichester is looking for an external examiner to oversee the development and academic support for a brand new programme running in 2017-18.
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Call for Nominations to the Peer Review College

Posted: 2 August 2016 - 7:58pm

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Summer Challenges & Residential Summer Schools

Posted: 1 April 2016 - 1:51pm
A level students Student opportunity

The Slade School of Fine Art at UCL have two opportunities for A level students from less advantaged backgrounds, encouraging them to consider applying to study fine art at degree level.
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Woon Foundation Prize 2016

Posted: 21 March 2016 - 3:45pm
Graduate Opportunity

This opportunity is for undergraduate students. The first prize is a year long £20,000 Fellowship, based in the Woon Tai Jee, studio located at BALTIC 39, and there are also two runner-up prizes of £...
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Call for Artistic Project Nominations 8th NEU NOW Festival

Posted: 11 February 2016 - 5:53pm
Call Out

NEU NOW 2016 Call for Nominations Extended to 16 February
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Replacement External Examiners

Posted: 11 February 2016 - 4:24pm
External Examiner

The Fine Art Department of The University of Chichester is seeking replacement external examiners for all of its programmes.
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Research Practice Practice Research: Call for papers

Posted: 11 February 2016 - 12:08pm
Research PhD

NAFAE is hosting a symposium exploring aspects of doctoral research in Fine Art practice and Fine Art pedagogy. We are offering an opportunity to present a paper about what you are researching, and...
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Studio external examiner

Posted: 25 November 2015 - 12:40pm
BA (Hons) External Examiner

B.A (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University (Formerly Leeds Metropolitan University) is looking to appoint a new studio external examiner.
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GLAD Conference 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Posted: 24 November 2015 - 12:28pm
Call Out

With an increasing national debate on the meaning of excellence in teaching and learning and the introduction of the ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’ later this academic year, the 2016 GLAD conference...
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Call for Presentations:14th ELIA Biennial Conference

Posted: 21 November 2015 - 1:26pm

The Steering Group of the 14th ELIA Biennial Conference invites colleagues from ELIA member institutions from all artistic disciplines to contribute to the programme and showcase their practices in...
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NAFAE Steering Group December

Posted: 11 November 2015 - 6:31pm

The next NAFAE Steering Group meeting will be held on the 11 December 2015, London Metropolitan University, 16 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP. If you wish to attend please email admin@nafae.org.uk.
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iJADE Conference

Posted: 4 November 2015 - 4:31pm

Sustainability has become a growing focus for many educators and practitioners in the visual arts. This year’s iJADE conference addresses sustainability in the context of art and design education...
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Tradesmans Entrance

Posted: 12 August 2015 - 1:56pm
FE Research

Labour Exchange has announced that they have just been awarded funding to host two artists in residence in Earlsdon during Tradesman's Entrance. They are inviting proposals from artists who are...
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Drawing Conversations

Posted: 12 August 2015 - 8:45am

Event Overview Drawing Conversations: reflecting upon collective and collaborative drawing practices is a one-day symposium intended to consider the specifics and value of collective and...
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AA2A Project

Posted: 11 August 2015 - 2:30pm

The AA2A project (Artists Access to Art Colleges) is offering around 65 placements, giving artists and designer makers the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project using art...
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NAFAE is the national subject association for Fine Art in Higher Education

Posted: 28 June 2015 - 2:29pm
Subject Association

NAFAE is the national subject association for Fine Art in Higher Education. We have a key role within CHEAD (the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design) and we give a voice to UK Fine Art...
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The Hidden Curriculum: Call for papers

Posted: 5 February 2015 - 11:45am
Call Out

It is becoming increasingly important for NAFAE that we increase our traditional schedule of seminar events over the year and find ways of complementing relevant and compatible networks active in our...
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NAFAE Events

Annual Symposium

Making Public: The Fine Art Degree Show

Making Public: The Fine Art Degree Show

Event Details

Event Papers

Annual Conference & AGM

Friday, 12 April 2019 (All day)

Event Institution:

Leeds Beckett University

Event Partner:

National Association for Fine Art Education

Event Keynote:

Kirsty Ogg (Curator of The New Contemporaries) & Paul Winstanley

Callout Link:

making-public-fine-art-degree-show

Tags:

AGM

Booking website:

Eventbrite

This event is free to NAFAE members.

Event Address:

Leeds City Art Gallery

The Headrow

Leeds

LS1 3AA
United Kingdom

Venue Google Map:

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Event Contact Name:

Andrew Sheridan

Event Email:

admin@nafae.org.uk

Venue website:

School of Art, Architecture and Design

NAFAE's annual symposium is intended as an opportunity to meet, discuss and exchange ideas. We invite short provocations, poster presentations, and 20 minute papers or case studies.
Call for submissions: abstracts of 200 to 500 words by January 28th, 2019
Email to admin@nafae.org.uk
Register for the symposium:
As a network we are primarily interested in what and how people are producing and how educators and art practitioners are responding to contemporary challenges and contexts across the sector.
The keynote/guest speakers are Kirsty Ogg (Curator of The New Contemporaries) talking about the link between degree shows and the New Contemporaries/graduate exhibitions.
And Paul Winstanley whose book ‘Art School’ documents British Art Schools use of studio and exhibition spaces (usually when empty).

Most institutions across the UK that offer Fine Art and Art related degree courses have a “degree show” in the form of a final year exhibition; it is frequently perceived as a standard expectation but is it a platform that meets the diverse needs and ambitions of the whole student cohort?
Are there practices that have successfully incorporated the range of experience that is being pursued across the student body?
What are the pre-requisites for success or the fulfilment of expectations and how are those metrics impacting on the student condition or their approach to independent learning?
Are art schools and courses managing the degree show differently at graduate and postgraduate levels?
Are there alternatives that are being trialled and are they affecting reforms or shifts in the delivery and design of teaching and learning?
Are we preserving a form of exposition that is constraining learning outcomes?
Is there a fear of teaching and learning resources being eroded as a consequence of changes in our behaviour as educators?
Do we sufficiently trust our managers and decision makers in the context of change and shifting requirements or reference points?
How does the art school or art course represent its regional geography and how is the exposition of final year work influenced by the local socio-economic landscape?
The ’Degree Show’ is often used as a tool of assessment and sometimes heralded as the event that students spend three years working towards. It is a historical expectation of a Fine Art education and also one that tends to receive endorsement by the institution. It can be a celebration of work. It might be framed by competition or specific expectations of being ‘noticed’ or achieving sales but can it match those expectations?
A degree show framing of art work may still seek to replicate the white cube though it is more likely to be constrained by the limitations of space and facilities. The very concept of a show or exhibition may not suit all contemporary expanded art practices, where a proportion of students operate in a post-studio context in which interdisciplinary working and collaborative practice are strongly encouraged. Is it appropriate to question the relevance of a degree show in an age where more and more students are moving into post-graduation worlds of working: with context and site, alongside social communities, in response to public realms, through media and on-line environments, or in assistive roles or as facilitators in applied fields.
Do we need Degree Shows? How representative are they of our context for teaching and developing arts practices for contemporary society?Have they become institutionalised or instrumentalised for what they might offer our institutions in terms of public engagement? Are there alternatives? Has the degree show become outdated/outmoded? Is the ownership still really with the student body and to what degree are exhibitions curated, censored and utilised as marketing material for an increasingly commodified higher education system?

Contributions are invited on themes including but not limited to:
Alternative models of exposition and public engagement
Student choice, voice and perspective
Sustainability and Resourcing
Space makers: The impact of an era of new buildings in UK higher education
Relationship of the Degree Show to Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Varying notions of display and dissemination
Curating and interpretation
The role of the University/Art School Gallery
Beyond the institution
The role of the degree show in supporting graduate outcomes.

Often, students tell me how much they dread their degree shows; it's not a celebration, but a competition. They've been equipped with a complex set of anxieties but no basic coping strategies, like inviting other people to come or contribute. The function of the degree show is not questioned, they just accept the stupid formats, like VIP breakfasts – why don't you just make tea and toast for everybody?” 2008-2009, BA Fine Art/Contextual Studies, Dartington College of Arts, Devon;
2009-2010, MA Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts (UAL). rosalieschweiker.info

I remember my undergrad degree show feeling like it should stand for everything that I wanted to be as an artist, and for all of the years I had been studying. But in hindsight, it was the very beginning, a sort of testing ground
Holly Hendry 2013 graduate

Your degree show – whether at BA (degree) or MA (postgraduate) level – is a valuable opportunity to showcase your work to a wide range of people working in the art world. Curators, writers, other artists, gallery directors and many others visit degree shows as part of their research into artists they might want to work with in the future. It’s important that your show looks its best at all times, and that you are available and contactable in the months following your show.
Artquest Website 2018
A crucial early showcase is the art school degree show, which, following the influential example set by Goldsmiths’ Visual Arts Department in the late 1980s, has now become increasingly professional in presentation. The degree show also provides a valuable opportunity for a wider public to have access to challenging contemporary art in its earliest incarnation.
Louisa Buck (2004) Market Matters

Remarks

Gallery

12/04/2019 (All day)