2011 – “Collaboration is Funny: The Life and Hard Times of M & B”

“I believe that whatever we teach and learn should have a purpose beyond itself. We don’t learn Photoshop, for example, just to learn photoshop. Every assignment I give you should become a part of your vocabulary, a tool not simply to use, but “to think with.” Our primary enterprise in this class- for which everything else we have done… is preparation- is a hypertext web…It is called a ‘web’ because, like a spiderweb, it is hyper textual in nature and makes links and connections between one strand and another, between works of art and artists and art writers and events and themes. This is a ‘web’ in which you begin to examine the art world and artists who are dealing with specific themes at the start of the century- and to relate the art to other art, other times, and to your own lives. ” Marjorie Wilson

“Should an art teacher be an artist? the answer to this question is: If an art teacher wishes to be an artist, then he or she should try to be an artist. It helps to know a whole lot about art, and art making is one way of knowing, reading and writing criticism is another, and reading art history and doing art historical inquiry is another. It also helps to be a philosopher of art, a collector of art, a connoisseur of art. If an art teacher has a passion for art, if an art teacher immerses herself or himself in art for a lifetime, then there will be lots to teach about- through what you do, what you know, and who you are!” Brent Wilson