HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM:
 FUTURE ART MODELS
 2018 - 2021

Popular ideas about art form early. Reality sometimes confirms those ideas and sometimes contrasts with them. This program encouraged students to consider existing roles, personal imperatives and perceived pathways in the art world. Rather than reinforce typical avenues of arts education and career opportunities, this program initiated investigative discussion on these topics, and encouraged young creatives to explore, design and implement their own alternative practices.

apexart offered 40-60 minute classroom sessions for High School students led by Katie Peyton-Hofstadter who teaches at the School of Art & Design History & Theory at Parsons/The New School, and at the School of Graduate Studies: Art Market Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology.


Session 1
Personal Arts Values
      Guided Brainstorming and Collective Word Map Activity
            ● Identifying and sharing personal arts values
                  ○ Students share their own values about art and what connects them to art.
                  ○ Questions: What is important to you in art? What are your personal artistic values?
            ● Share perception of careers in the arts, visions of success within the art world as well as challenges and barriers in pursuing a professional arts practice
                  ○ Questions: How is success defined in the arts? How is it visualized in culture? What is your version of success in a career?
                  ○ As a student, have you encountered barriers or limitations to create artwork or pursue a career as an artist?
      Closing discussions and prompts
            ● Alternative models in the arts
                  ○ Reference apexart programs: crowd-sourced exhibition Open Call Process and non-production based artist Fellowship

      Prompts for Future Art Models
            ● With your values and the knowing types of opportunities already exist, what models do you want to work in?
            ● What does a future for practicing art look like without the barriers that currently exist today?
            ● What does success in the arts look like without the perceived and existing challenges?

Follow up Student Experience (optional)
Opportunity to participate in apexart Classroom Jury Program
      Students develop a deeper understanding of their own curatorial values and aspirations and gain broad exposure to global curatorial ideas and practices through reading exhibition submissions from around the world.
      Open Call Classroom Guide for Teachers and Professors: https://apexart.org/classroom-involvement4.html

This program was developed and created with Katie Peyton-Hofstadter.


Art Values word map, Fashion Industries High School
Art barriers word map, Fashion Industries High School
Future art models word map, Fashion Industries High School