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Since March 5, 2010, a variety of classes and workshops have been held in conjunction with Subject of Learning / Object of Study. The format and the content of these events have been determined by each of the participants: visiting artists, local artists, UT professors, and Austinites. Visitors to The Blanton have been invited to join the workshops, or just play casual witness as they walk through the museum.
Upcoming Programs
School Days Open Mic: What I Knew
Sunday, October 3, 2PM
Dig up your best (or worst) essays and book reports! Local artist Katelyn Wood hosts “What I Knew,” an open mic session in which visitors can share their writings from grammar school to grad school. Bring your notebook, number two pencils, and all you thought you knew. In conjunction with WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft.
School Days: Art Class: Drawing Workshop with Anna Craycroft
Saturday, October 16, 2PM
Workspace artist Anna Craycroft leads visitors in a pedagogical drawing technique which translates the personal narratives of their classroom experiences into a coded system of colorful abstract shapes. The workshop adapts the methodologies of heaer/artist Emma Kunz and revolutionary pedagogues Friedrich Froebel and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
Past Events
Saturday March 6, 1-4 PM
Montessori Word Game for Explore UT Day
The Blanton Museum's education department organizes a word game inviting visitors to the museum to write words on the chalkboards. Printed words are strewn throughout the room for visitors to peruse and categorize into the correct part of speech, finally writing the word as decoratively and expressively as they like upon the appropriate Montessori Grammar Symbol.
Sunday March 7, 3:30 PM
Wargame Naptime with artist Lisi Raskin
Brooklyn-based, internationally exhibiting and former WorkSpace artist Lisi Raskin returns to The Blanton to play her artwork Able Archer '83, a limited edition LP recording in which Raskin performs various characters, in addition to all sounds effects, in a narrative based off the 1983 Able Archer war games. http://awp.diaart.org/raskin/
Thursday, March 11, 12:30 PM
Perspectives: Sam Gosling in conversation with Anna Craycroft
Sam Gosling, UT psychology professor, personality/social psychologist and author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You joins Anna Craycroft for a conversation in the exhibition. http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/HomePage/Faculty/Gosling/index.htm
Saturday, March 13, 2 PM
Book club with artist Anna Craycroft
Artist Anna Craycroft leads a special book club discussion for children and adults on books by Gregory Bateson, Paul Chan, R. Buckminster Fuller, and
Bruno Munari.
Saturday, March 20, 2 PM
Slide Jam
Get to know twenty-five emerging contemporary artists from Austin and Virginia Commonwealth University in under two hours -- invited artists have twenty images and five minutes each to introduce their work.
Saturday, April 3, 2pm
Free Draw! with artist Jessica Dickinson
Inspired by the time allotted in children’s art class to “drawing whatever you want!,” artist New York-based artist Jessica Dickinson leads a drawing workshop for both children and adults. No artistic background necessary for this exercise in creating freely. Bring anything that can be marked upon to share, especially those household items that sit waiting for creative activation. Set them FREE! www.jessicadickinson.com/
Saturday, April 17, 2 PM
Workshop: TSBVI Educator Anita Lewis
Anita Lewis, educator at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, leads a workshop on the deaf-blind experience in the classroom.
www.tsbvi.edu/
Sunday, April 24, 3 PM
Panel Discussion: The Museum as Interface
Aaron Gemill and Rob Seward of Ex Corporation discuss the idea of automated (i.e. robotic) writing, teaching, learning and evaluation. Topics to be discussed from multidisciplinary perspectives include machine learning, encoded reasoning, the role of computers in pedagogical settings, and algorithmic processes at play in the literature of the 20th-century avant-garde. Joining ExCorp will be Maria Esteva, Research Associate/ Data Archivist for the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin; Justin Hodgson, Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing at UT; and Bruce Porter, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at UT and Head of the Knowledge Systems Research Group.
www.ex-corporation.com/ and www.robotpedagogue.com/
Saturday, May 1, 2 PM
Workshop: Apocalypse Cakes founder, Shannon O'Malley
We're doomed! Eat Cake! Austin-based copywriter and founder of Apocalypse Cakes, Shannon O'Malley presents tips for developing and marketing your ideas. For O'Malley these ideas tend to involve Apocalypse-themed cakes.
http://apocalypsecakes.wordpress.com
Saturday, May 8, 2 PM
Jill Magid: Autofictions
Artist Jill Magid presents a lecture about autofictions: literary figures, artists and criminals who take on new identities and personas in order to experience the world differently. In keeping with the topic, Austin-based performer Stephen Low will perform Jill Magid. www.jillmagid.com
The Anhoek School
Saturday, May 15, 2PM
Artist, writer and educator Mary Walling Blackburn brings two classes from her experimental school, The Anhoek School, to the exhibition. “Anhoek School is Dead, Long Live Anhoek School!” is a workshop on building your own school, and "Accidental Pornographies" is a speed lecture exploring an entire semester class on imagery from the Women's Health Movement in 45 minutes. Substitute teachers Katie Anania and Claire Ruud will lead the classes.
Josef Albers and Werklehre
Saturday, June 5, 2PM
Allison Myers leads a class on basic principles of design using artist and educator Josef Albers’s Werklehre—design with material—techniques from the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. Activities include construction exercises in paper to encourage intuitive understanding and constructive thinking about material and space.
Zen Meditation and Art
Saturday, June 19, 2PM
Artist Sam Sanford leads a workshop on Zen meditation and offers some remarks on the relationship between meditation and art. Meditation is a way to practice detaching awareness from the ongoing stream of internal noise to allow new perspectives and insights to emerge from unconscious levels of the mind.