On my own blog, I have some thoughts about Saturday's panel from the SGC conference. I would greatly appreciate your comments on it...
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Tyler graduate printmaking seminar 8111 Spring, 2010.
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I missed this panel (and much of the conference sadly), but you bring up an interesting point. Some of the work that is the most interesting at Philagrafika shows and of the artists I got to know fell more on the fringes of the printworld.
My concern with interdisciplinary programs and why I looked for a real "printmaking" department when I applied to grad school was simply that I want to be able to be able to really make things. And, while the sculpture department at Tyler is not an interdisciplinary one, the lack of craftsmanship that comes out of that department concerns me.
I don't think of myself as a conservative person, but I think that art education MUST include the learning of real skills. As I teach this semester, I feel that I am asking a lot of my students. I ask them to really challenge themselves in terms of showing that they, as an artist, have a point of view. That said, I am not going to stop pointing out when people have not "printed" something properly.
So, when it comes to the concept of the interdisciplinary, my only concern is that we move too far away from really learning from masters. Art crosses more and more boundaries of late (or so it seems). I have had to open my definition of what a "painting" is and what a "drawing" is. What sculpture is. And I think that is 100% good. But. Still. Why am I so excited for SGC again? Because even though I think I am an artist whose work is not simply printmaking, I do think there is a great deal of worth in truly knowing a craft. And yes. I said craft. And proudly so.
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