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business1 month ago•6 min saved

Tech billionaire Huang backs Vanderbilt’s SF arts college revival as CCA winds down

Jensen Huang and his wife’s Huang Foundation commit a $75 million matching gift to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design at Vanderbilt’s San Francisco campus, replacing the California College of the Arts (which will close after 120 years). The gift, part of Huang’s ongoing support that now totals $97.5 million for CCA, includes undergrad and grad programs, archives digitization, fellowships, and connections to San Francisco’s culture and innovation scene, while prompting debate over tech philanthropy’s influence on the arts.

via The San Francisco Standard|

#art-education #business #california-college-of-the-arts

education3 years ago•3 min saved

"Chicago Museum Paves the Way for Art Education"

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has partnered with educator Romi Crawford to launch the New Art School Modality, a semester-long program that offers free courses in Black art history taught by scholars and artists of color. The program aims to provide an alternative mode of art education in response to the closure of traditional art schools and the high cost of studying fine art. The first semester will focus on the lessons of FESTAC 77, a Pan-African convening of Black artists in 1977. The program does not offer a degree or college credit but aims to create apprenticeships in the arts and make art more accessible.

via The New York Times|

#alternative-education #art-education #artists-of-color

arts-and-culture3 years ago•2 min saved

Fired Principal Visits Michelangelo's David in Florence and is Impressed.

Hope Carrasquilla, a US principal who was forced to resign after parents complained about an art lesson showing Michelangelo's David, visited the masterpiece at Florence's Accademia Galleria. The museum director invited her and her family to see the statue, which depicts an entirely naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath. Carrasquilla said she was impressed by the gallery and that there was nothing wrong with the human body. She was asked to resign from the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida last month after less than a year on the job.

via BBC|

#accademia-galleria #art-education #arts-and-culture

arts-and-culture3 years ago•2 min saved

From Controversy to Invitation: Italian Mayor Invites Ousted US Principal to Florence.

The mayor of Florence has invited Hope Carrasquilla, the former principal of a Florida school, to visit Italy after she was forced out of her job last week following complaints over a sixth-grade lesson on Michelangelo's "David." The controversy has prompted outcry from observers who believe Carrasquilla's removal was an act of censorship. The school insists she was reprimanded for failing to follow procedure and not because the 500-year-old statue itself was considered indecent. The incident highlights the ongoing debate over parental rights and censorship in education.

via CNN|

#art-education #arts-and-culture #censorship