Higher arts education –which is often the fact of artists, and sometimes becomes their central occupation – is at a crossroads.
Mutations which have started (and continue to evolve) with the Bologna process, the tendency to gather within education 'poles', the development of post-master training on models that contrast with education in the classical sense, the general economic crisis and the reverse growth of the Art Market, the inter- and trans-disciplinarity which are more and more notable within artistic practices, raise questions about how the arts are taught and passed on, and more particularly question the models of art schools as they have been developed in the twentieth century.
All over Europe, new strategies try to meet these new challenges in very different ways. This symposium wants to cross local and international experiences and perspectives to nourish the practice of teachers, student teachers or members of teaching staff, and to imagine the future of art education.