tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462565661469167.post6858377032893007979..comments2023-06-19T05:51:00.526-04:00Comments on Bare Bones: Eating Our YoungR.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11897593320270054795noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982462565661469167.post-87560187274794070432010-09-21T18:38:16.270-04:002010-09-21T18:38:16.270-04:00I definitely agree that art programs and schools d...I definitely agree that art programs and schools do not prepare students to make real work, or to facilitate becoming an artist.<br /><br />Often art students are taught a selection of techniques, given assignments to try those techniques, and then graduated into the working world without much knowledge or experience of the profession or community.<br /><br />There is a major divide that I have experienced between the academic attempts to prepare art students and how students need to prepare for the real world. Less time needs to be spent on teaching what a single teacher feels is a useful technique (at least after preliminary classes), and more time needs to be spent on producing real, meaningful and identifiable bodies of work, coupled with experience in the art community and organizations.<br /><br />Thank you for illustrating an important weakness in art education, more efforts towards improving this need to be made.David Luhrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151354833698531692noreply@blogger.com