InSEA@70 The University of Leeds and the Herbert Read Connections.
Sat 7 Dec 2024 13:00 - 14:20 GMT
Online, Zoom
Description
This is the final webinar of our #InSEA@70 series, celebrating seventy years as the official UNESCO organisation for visual art education. It is only right that we feature one of our founders, Sir Herbert Read.
Our session title, The University of Leeds and the Herbert Read Connections, aims to explore the past, present and future in art education through the case study of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.
In terms of the past, established in 1949 as the Department of Fine Art, Leeds led the way as an English university offering degrees in fine art practice. Under the auspices of the first appointed Professor of Fine Art, Maurice de Sausmarez, and his deep connection to Herbert Read, the Department led the way in thinking about the practice and theory of art and art education.
In terms of the present, they have recently launched an incredible new resource in our University Special Collections to allow access to our rich archive collections from this period - https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/3235 - that includes letters where Read and de Sausmarez speak about the importance of art education. And the School leads on an initiative to support art teachers working today to feel valued and confident in their classrooms, and to be able to teach a diversity of art histories - atcuk.org. Since 2017 they have also been building and supporting a network of art and art history teachers across the UK, which now has over 200 members representing over 30,000 pupils a week. We also run a PG Certificate programme that allows teachers to research and reflect on their practice.
In terms of the future, Professor Abigail Harrison Moore (Professor of Art History and Museum Studies) and graduates Sue Gibbons and Amanda Davies from the PG Cert Programme will explore their teacher's research projects and the impact their learning has and will have on how we understand, deliver and value art education.
Join us for this celebration of the influence and impact of Herbert Read.
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