11/26/18: Class 70: Close Reading, Catching-Up & Next Semester

11/26/18: Class 70: Close Reading, Catching-Up & Next Semester

Hello Projects 🍃

Hope you all had a restful long weekend whether you stayed in the city or were out of town, this is just a reminder that we will be meeting this after noon 2-5pm in room 901 of the NAB!

We will continue our close read of the Howard Singerman text, please bring your copy of the reading if you're able. Josiah will share some work and related texts and we time in case anyone else would like to present or has updates. We'll also continue to discuss how best to unpack the upcoming art faculty search/hires. This class is being continued in the Spring on Tuesday's 2-5pm and will continue to un/focus on many of the areas and topics that have come up: searches & hires, the mission revision, FEC & strategic plan language and implementation, board composition, data culture @ cooper, initiatives/programming &restructuring, development and admissions, curricular present and history.

Last week we heard a bit from Walid about the a/typical hiring processes and the different ways that institutions approach syllabi, curriculum, searches, etc. We've referred now a few times to the 'Employment Opportunities' page on cooper.edu which hosts the official language for positions that are open, both academically and administratively. We briefly went over the recent structure/history of the School of Art Full-Time faculty, who's been here, who's left or retired recently, who's come in on the last faculty search, how the language and participation of constituencies outside the Full-Time faculty and Dean factors in, and of the current 3 "Lines" for hire this fiscal year in the School of Art.

The Bauhaus has come up repeatedly in the Singerman text as well as in previous class discussions about the SoA's Foundation year and other course offerings; as was noted last week 2019 is the 100th year anniversary of its founding by Walter Gropius so you might expect to see and hear more reference to the Bauhaus and it's related offshoots and individuals in the coming months and year...

Kane shared a bit about his experiences thus far navigating work, internships, and volunteering with and for a number of artists, galleries, and studios. He also shared his experience applying, being selected off the waitlist for and participating in the 'Professional Internship Program' @ Cooper. Though presently somewhat restricted in scale and scope the program has existed for a number of years (at least since 2008) and the earliest Way-Back-Machine web capture of the page dates from June 2016 if anyone is interested in how the language has changed in even the last few years.

See you all soon 🐿