Overview
- 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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About this book
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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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