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...integral part of the cognitive life of the University.” Among its recommendations were proposals for increasing the presence of arts practice in the curriculum and increasing student access to arts-practice courses. A quick glance at the studio art course offerings of the VES department underscores the serious need for such changes. But, with the imminent departure of Nancy Mitchnick, one of only two painting instructors in the department, the university appears to be moving in the wrong direction. Undergraduates already have a dismayingly small number of studio art courses to choose from, even fewer of which...
...Brien said. O’Brien added that in planning the event, coordinators didn’t specifically target students in the Visual and Environmental Studies department, who give their own end-of-semester screenings for class-based work. “It’s great that the VES students have a screening opportunity, but we wanted that platform to be available to everyone,” she said, also noting that with submissions from both a graduate and a VES professor, the festival was not limited to undergraduate filmmakers. And although the festival’s predominant spirit...
...member of the VES teaching staff who asked not to be identified said this open-door policy is less than effective. "We've just stopped trying to talk to them. We've stopped questioning her [Garber] because she just doesn't give answers. You can't walk into the first floor of the Carpenter Center and get anything reasonable. They are administrative people there that don't know anything about art. They know nothing nothing nothing about...
...think there is a moment arriving where the department really needs to look hard at what it is doing and representing,” says a VES Professor, who wishes to remain anonymous. “What is the curriculum and what is the balance? Is there a need to look a little deeper? There is a need for a lot more conversation...
...this period of transition for the VES, Mitchnick’s departure is simply the most recent upset in what have been difficult times. The imminent change has not only troubled ardent supporters of the painting instructor, and alumni, but also unearthed longstanding, deeper anxieties concerning the direction in which the department is headed. Yet if VES is to continue to fulfill its mission to provide the best education possible to its students, then the troubling perception that the position of a more traditional, hands-on approach to art education has been rendered precarious by a move towards the theoretical...