Librarian or Research-Tutor Needed!
Hi- I need help finding academic articles. All of my higher-ed degrees have been in Drawing and Painting Stuff, and the last one I got was over 10 years ago, so I'm totally not sure how I go about doing this. Or even starting. All I remember is little drawers full of index cards that smelled funny. I know there is such a thing called "google scholar" but I think I need higher-level help than that to figure out what I'm looking for.
PLEASE-
If you are a librarian or an academic researcher and want to help talk me through how to find some articles I need, please read below the cut and let me know if you can help get me started.
If you are thinking "damn, we know lots of librarians," please forward this post on to them. There's a little link up there in the header that says "Tell a Friend;" you could use that. Don't assume said librarian reads my LJ and would see this on his or her own. Okay, *except* lifecollage, and sparkymonster, or mizarchivist, or [redacted]; don't spam them. Ms. Four Three Librarians just mentioned, whom I already know that I know, I'll drop you a line in email in a moment. :) (hmm... I think all the librarians I know are female.)
This work is Time Sensitive, so if you can help me out soon, rather than planning to casually brining it up at a party, that would be a huge, huge, help.
I'm looking for information about how contemporary Colleges of Fine Arts, or Fine Arts programs within Universities, view their own pedagogical strengths and weaknesses.
This research has two angles. One is the field of Fine Art higher ed. in general. The context for which I am doing this work, is a structured "teacher education" program within the college of architecture where I've been teaching. In doing the first week's reading for that class, I realized that it is an imperative for me, in my goals for that class, to find articles that address similar issues but for the sorts of programs I would like to be teaching in soon-my goal for this course is to prepare a Teaching Portfolio to apply to teach elsewhere, in a college of Fine Arts. So I need to find equivalent articles to the ones we're reading about architectural education, but which address Drawing and Painting, or Foundation Design in the context of a Fine Arts program.
The first few articles for the Research and Portfolio class were;
Peggy Deamer, First Year: The Fictions of Studio Design, Perspecta 36 2005.
Hannah Vowles, "The Crit as a ritualized legitimation procedure in architectural education," in Changing Architectural Education: Towards a new professionalism, ed. David Nicol and Simon Pilling (NY: Spon Press, 2000) pp.259 - 264.
and
Peter Zumthor, "Thinking Architecture", Boston: Birkhauser, Lars Muller Publishers, 1998, online May 2006 http://www.archidose.org/Jun99/061499a.htm
The first paragraph of the Deamer article reads:
"The first semester of architectural education: such a dilemma. What is the perfect studio program that strikes the right balance between conceptual thinking and formal dexterity? Between material manipulation and cultural critique? Between precedent and innovation? Between sensitivity to site and interrogation of the functional program? Between abstraction and reality? Between large-scale and small-scale? The idea that there must, should be the perfect program that addresses the essential component(s) of architectural thinking haunts many of us who have taught first semester design, whether undergraduate or graduate."
The Zumthor article starts surprisingly similarly.
We have Deamer, an architect and professor at Yale, and Zumthor, an internationally acclaimed architect, and Hannah Vowles of the Architectural Humanities Research Association.
Who is writing similar investigations into programs of Fine Arts in higher ed? I mean, who that people respect and actually read and give credit to? What are the journals that are considered professionally relevant to teaching fine arts today?
I need at least a half-dozen articles of a similar caliber to these to bring to my work.
Secondly, since this is leading toward an actual job-search, I need to also know who from the colleges and programs of Fine Arts in this area are people reading? What do the specific schools I'm interested in say about their own programs when they are talking frankly at educational conferences (as opposed to in their marketing materials)? My current institution's First Year studio looks nothing at all like Yales if Peggy Deamer's article can be used as a looking-glass. We talk with other schools about the problems of having students enter a program border-line functionally illiterate, treating college like "13th grade," and with "helicopter parents" calling the program head to complain about how much homework there is... but we sure don't say that in our college literature.
How do I find the scholarly, and a tad more frank, discussions of "the issues facing Fine Arts Higher Education today" written by relevant educators or department heads from the programs in striking distance of here? [Mass Art, Museum School, New England School of Art and Design (Suffolk University), Art Institute of Boston (Lesley College), Boston University Fine Arts Department, Tufts University Fine Arts Department]
Thanks, all for forwarding to people who might be able to help, and thanks, especially, librarians and anyone else who read (or skimmed is probably good enough) that whole long description behind the cut, to think about way you might be able to help.
THANKS! I have many fine wood-block prints, if you might like to arrange an art-for-knowledge exchange.
PLEASE-
If you are a librarian or an academic researcher and want to help talk me through how to find some articles I need, please read below the cut and let me know if you can help get me started.
If you are thinking "damn, we know lots of librarians," please forward this post on to them. There's a little link up there in the header that says "Tell a Friend;" you could use that. Don't assume said librarian reads my LJ and would see this on his or her own. Okay, *except* lifecollage, and sparkymonster, or mizarchivist, or [redacted]; don't spam them. Ms. Four Three Librarians just mentioned, whom I already know that I know, I'll drop you a line in email in a moment. :) (hmm... I think all the librarians I know are female.)
This work is Time Sensitive, so if you can help me out soon, rather than planning to casually brining it up at a party, that would be a huge, huge, help.
I'm looking for information about how contemporary Colleges of Fine Arts, or Fine Arts programs within Universities, view their own pedagogical strengths and weaknesses.
This research has two angles. One is the field of Fine Art higher ed. in general. The context for which I am doing this work, is a structured "teacher education" program within the college of architecture where I've been teaching. In doing the first week's reading for that class, I realized that it is an imperative for me, in my goals for that class, to find articles that address similar issues but for the sorts of programs I would like to be teaching in soon-my goal for this course is to prepare a Teaching Portfolio to apply to teach elsewhere, in a college of Fine Arts. So I need to find equivalent articles to the ones we're reading about architectural education, but which address Drawing and Painting, or Foundation Design in the context of a Fine Arts program.
The first few articles for the Research and Portfolio class were;
Peggy Deamer, First Year: The Fictions of Studio Design, Perspecta 36 2005.
Hannah Vowles, "The Crit as a ritualized legitimation procedure in architectural education," in Changing Architectural Education: Towards a new professionalism, ed. David Nicol and Simon Pilling (NY: Spon Press, 2000) pp.259 - 264.
and
Peter Zumthor, "Thinking Architecture", Boston: Birkhauser, Lars Muller Publishers, 1998, online May 2006 http://www.archidose.org/Jun99/061499a.htm
The first paragraph of the Deamer article reads:
"The first semester of architectural education: such a dilemma. What is the perfect studio program that strikes the right balance between conceptual thinking and formal dexterity? Between material manipulation and cultural critique? Between precedent and innovation? Between sensitivity to site and interrogation of the functional program? Between abstraction and reality? Between large-scale and small-scale? The idea that there must, should be the perfect program that addresses the essential component(s) of architectural thinking haunts many of us who have taught first semester design, whether undergraduate or graduate."
The Zumthor article starts surprisingly similarly.
We have Deamer, an architect and professor at Yale, and Zumthor, an internationally acclaimed architect, and Hannah Vowles of the Architectural Humanities Research Association.
Who is writing similar investigations into programs of Fine Arts in higher ed? I mean, who that people respect and actually read and give credit to? What are the journals that are considered professionally relevant to teaching fine arts today?
I need at least a half-dozen articles of a similar caliber to these to bring to my work.
Secondly, since this is leading toward an actual job-search, I need to also know who from the colleges and programs of Fine Arts in this area are people reading? What do the specific schools I'm interested in say about their own programs when they are talking frankly at educational conferences (as opposed to in their marketing materials)? My current institution's First Year studio looks nothing at all like Yales if Peggy Deamer's article can be used as a looking-glass. We talk with other schools about the problems of having students enter a program border-line functionally illiterate, treating college like "13th grade," and with "helicopter parents" calling the program head to complain about how much homework there is... but we sure don't say that in our college literature.
How do I find the scholarly, and a tad more frank, discussions of "the issues facing Fine Arts Higher Education today" written by relevant educators or department heads from the programs in striking distance of here? [Mass Art, Museum School, New England School of Art and Design (Suffolk University), Art Institute of Boston (Lesley College), Boston University Fine Arts Department, Tufts University Fine Arts Department]
Thanks, all for forwarding to people who might be able to help, and thanks, especially, librarians and anyone else who read (or skimmed is probably good enough) that whole long description behind the cut, to think about way you might be able to help.
THANKS! I have many fine wood-block prints, if you might like to arrange an art-for-knowledge exchange.