The Art Schools Issue: Art Starts Here
The cover of Canadian Art's winter 2008 print edition focusing on art schools
Art schools are key players in shaping the contemporary Canadian art scene. And the winter issue of Canadian Art, launched this week, reveals the ways this influence is exerted, today more than ever. Whether it’s NSCAD stewarding a crucial conceptualist legacy, UQAM and Concordia anchoring Montreal’s new-art boom, OCAD exploring theories of creative economy or Emily Carr building one of the nation’s best painting departments in photoconceptualism’s shadow, our art schools issue covers it all.
In celebration of the new print edition, Canadian Art Online is offering a free peek at a revealing story from its pages. For it, Vancouver writer Deborah Campbell camps out in the classroom as the school year begins at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Click here www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2008/12/01/death-and-life-of-painting/ to read on.
Starting this week, Canadian Art Online is also hosting a swath of online bonus material about art schools and their legacies, including a portfolio of works by ten top art school grads, an album of NSCAD past and present, a review of who’s who academically in the Quebec Triennial and a video of one of the art world’s hot new trends: art about art school.
Also available online starting this week is an extended series of works from photographer and NSCAD alumnus Lorraine Field, who exhibited in Istanbul earlier this year and is reviewed in the winter 2008 print edition. And keep an eye out for soon-to-come online video lectures from British curator Polly Staple, as well as a prime preview of Mark Lewis’s plans for the Canadian pavilion at Venice 2009. They’re key learning resources for all students of Canadian art, official and otherwise, to enjoy.
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