The opening and launch of the project initiated by ART ROSA (Nita Mocanu & Delia Popa) and supported by the Timișoara Project Center through the Energie Creation Grant, will take place on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 6.00 pm, at Pygmalion Gallery, Casa Artelor, Timișoara.
The project consists of a research on the concept of "investigative pedagogy" and has as a preliminary result a multimedia installation consisting of a series of 8 interviews with Romanian visual artists who are also art pedagogues, either in general pre-university education or in vocational art education in the cities of Timișoara, Arad and Bucharest: Natalia Bica, Laura Borotea, Ciprian Chirileanu, Ema Hrițcu, Nita Mocanu, Cosmin Moldovan, Delia Popa, Diana Serghiuță. There will also be an interactive mind map installation and documentary photographs of the educational spaces.
The schedule for Friday, 15 November, is as follows:
● 15:00-17:00: Workshop "Investigative pedagogy of teaching artists"
● 17:00-18:00: Discussion and conclusions
● 18:00: Exhibition opening
The workshop will consist in the creation, in real time, of a network of ideas, together with the participating artist-pedagogues, in the Pygmalion gallery space. The texts generated during the workshop will remain on display on the gallery walls as part of the exhibition "Portrait of the Artist as a Teacher".
The project investigates the extent to which artist - teachers use investigative, research and testing methods in both the pedagogical and artistic act, responding to the need for representation and valorization of art teachers who assume a dual role, highlighting the importance and complexity of teaching art. At the same time, the project addresses the need to thematize in the Romanian public space the quality of visual education and artistic culture of children and young people in state education and is part of a broader research approach.
ART ROSA is an artistic group founded in 2024 in Oradea by visual artists Nita Mocanu and Delia Popa.
ART ROSA aims to bring to the foreground a cultural actor insufficiently known and valued in contemporary Romanian society: the artist/artist/artistx- pedagogue, that category of artists who are active both on the art scene and in formal and/or informal educational spaces, critically and innovatively combining the two fields. Through investigative and speculative research methods, and through mediums mainly related to New Media and digital art, ART ROSA contributes to the diagnosis, but also to the change through art of education in Romania.
The exhibition will be open from November 16 - 30, 2024. Visiting hours: Wednesday - Sunday: 15.00 - 19.00. Free admission.
The workshop will consist in the creation, in real time, of a network of ideas, together with the participating artist - pedagogues, in the Pygmalion gallery space. The texts generated during the workshop will remain on display on the gallery walls as part of the exhibition "Portrait of the Artist as a Teacher".
This artistic creation has been realized through an Energie! Creative Grant, awarded by the Municipality of Timișoara, through the Project Center. The creation does not necessarily represent the position of the Project Center of the Municipality of Timișoara, and it is not responsible for its content or how it may be used.
Thanks for the support: Simultan Association, Timisoara; "Sabin Drăgoi" College of Arts Arad, County Direction for Culture Timis - House of Arts, Nikolaus Lenau High School Timișoara, The Timișoara Arts High School, No 16. ”Take Ionescu” Gymnasium, Timișoara.
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