What’s the Use? Critical Histories of Art & Design Colleges
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Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Pennsylvania State University; mail to: Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Pennsylvania State University, 207 Arts Cottage, University Park, PA 16802-2905; email: mas53@psu.edu.
Many art and design schools were established to serve an industrializing, capitalist society which needed artists and designers to create images and objects for everyday life in the middle class. Do we need new models for understanding how art and design schools benefit society? Why do young people today want to study visual arts and design? How effective have these colleges been in building the capacities of their graduates? What benefits does higher education in visual arts provide for individuals and for society? How have curricular changes reflected changing beliefs about art and design? Papers should explore issues of power in institutional governance, economics in public/private support for the arts and art education, gender and diversity, as well as changing social functions of art and design colleges. Both critical institutional histories and papers examining student outcomes and assessment will be considered.
A PDF file of the full CAA Call for Participation can be found online at: www.collegeart.org. Please note that presenters must be members of College Art Association when the proposal is submitted and at the time of the conference. CAA will meet in Dallas, Texas, February 20-23, 2008.
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