Thursday, 15 April 2010

visitingtheoldworld


Ecole des Beaux-Arts -Valence

the free paper store

universal bad parking

covered buildings

cloth in public
an interesting few days in France starting in Nimes – alongside visiting all the usual roman ruins i added to my collection of images – universal bad parking, cloth in public and covered buildings. the CarrĂ© d'art by Norman Foster had excellent shows by isa melsheimer and michael raedecker. later we stayed with Matthew Tyson and Isabella Oulton of imprints. http://www.imprints-editions.com/index.html and were invited to look around Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France by Melanie Kenyon the international studies coordinator (they are taught english as part of their art education) – fascinating to discuss the differences between two art education experiences. they have 120 people at the college a 1 to 8 student staff ratio with extensive facilities and space and appeared not to comprehend the concept of learning outcomes and assessment procedures but they can feel it’s chill coming like a tsunami and it was interesting to support their understanding alongside promises of documentation – it would be possible for 20 students to work in the store they keep for the students supply of free paper.