Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Vocational Practice prepares students for the realities and practicalities of pursuing and maintaining professions associated with art practice and art history. It identifies activities and skills pertinent to such career objectives: teaching and self-promotion are among them. Many exhibiting artists, publishing art historians, and practicing curators supplement their income with part-time teaching. To this end, the module provides rudimentary training and experience in key aspects FE/HE teaching.

Students will also be encouraged to develop a concept of professional self-identity as artists and art historians, establishing practical means by which they can survive and develop as professional artists and art historians, and their work may be presented to the public, gallery curators, conference organisers, and publishers.

The module aims to:

• instruct and provide experience in key aspects associated with of vocational practice in Fine Art. In particular to:
• train students in the rudiments of art school teaching
• train students in the practicalities of exhibition preparation, installation, and curation
• define concepts and types of professional identity
• prepare students for survival and development as professional artists
• enable students to present themselves clearly and persuasively in both orally and in writing. In particular, to instruct students in the production of an accompanying exhibition catalogue in collaboration with the other exhibiting students for ARM0260 Exhibition 2 and a Presentation given in the context of a Viva Voce.

objectives

• In terms of teaching: comprehend the elements of teaching, design a module, participate in a one-to-one tutorial, either conduct a small-group seminar or deliver a short lecture
• In terms of exhibition: prepare of a gallery, hang of a body of art works, light a gallery; organise an exhibition'r publicity and opening, and dismantle and exhibition
• situate themselves in relation to one or other of the various options for defining professional practice and the idea of `artist?
• understand and be equipped in the practicalities and openings of applying to galleries and for financial assistance, self-promotion, securing and staging exhibitions, and studio acquisition and maintenance
• write an exhibition catalogue entry, design (corporately) a catalogue, and conduct a short presentation on their work

​Teaching
Seminar: Elements of Teaching in Higher Education
Seminar/Workshop: One-to-One Studio and Classroom Tutorials
Seminar/Workshop: Small-Group Studio Tutorials and Criticisms
Seminar/Workshop: Criteria and Methods of Assessment
Seminar/Workshop: Conducting Demonstrations and Practicals
Seminar/Workshop: Designing a Teaching Project
Seminar/Workshop: Delivering Lectures
Practical: Conducting a One-to-One Tutorial 1
Practical: Conducting a One-to-One Tutorial 2
Practical: Conducting a Group Tutorial 1

Self-Identity, Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion
Seminar/Workshop: Concepts of Professionalism and Types of ‘Artist’ and ‘Art Historian’
Workshop: Photographing your Work
Seninar/Workshop: Developing a Written Profile
Seminar: Approaching Galleries
Seminar: Approaching the Conference Paper
Seminar: Approaching the Publisher
Workshop: Designing a Web-Page 1
Workshop: Designing a Web-Page 2
Workshop: Designing a Web-Page 3

• Independent project work - N/A.
• IT and information handling -- IT handling will be developed, applied, and assessed in relation to the development of the Written Profile and Web Page.
• Oral disussion -- This will be developed in the context of seminars and teaching practice.
• Careers need awareness -- The principal aim of the module is to equip students with a range of skills which artists deploy in order to both sustain and augment their profession.
• Self-Management - through preparation for teaching experience and presentation
• Group activity -- This will be developed in the context of seminars and group-teaching project.