just because you’re a great artist does not mean you’re a great arts teacher, or even great articulating your own great art to others
we need less artists “settling” for teaching careers after burning out their own creative practices and losing hope.
what we need more of is more teaching artists who have amalgamated both a social and personal creative practice from the get go.
if you’re not interested in learning to *socialize*, both as speaker and listener, as part of your *social* creative practice, then you should stay out of the classroom.
this includes approaching both your own creative work as well as that of those in your community with humility.
if you’re not willing to continue being an arts student *yourself* amongst your community of both colleagues and students, then you’re willfully choosing not to grow.
having a social practice, whether it be teaching, collective organizing, mutual aid, etc, is the artist exclaiming to the world “i don’t know everything, there is always something new i can learn, can we teach each other?”
furthermore, you do not need to be embedded in academia and arts NGO world in order to maintain a strong social practice.
on the contrary, rent parties, lofts, rec rooms, and DIY art space cultures have all proven themselves throughout the 20th and 21st century to be just as effective, if not more so as the big institutions, when it comes to being fruitful arts incubators.
TLDR i don’t know shit and arts education should be just as much about the teacher learning something new from their community as it does the student.
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