Including Creativity in Education
Fashion Roundtable's Tamara Cincik is in conversation with Karen Alexander, Zowie Broach, and Dr Rachel Payne - three of the most important names in creative education and research. Karen Alexander is a London-based creative curator, writer and researcher. She is an associate lecturer at Central St Martins and, for over 15 years, has worked with and for BFI and the Royal College of Art. Alexander's research interests include artists' film and video, and the post-colonial visual politics of the African diaspora with specific reference to gender, race and representation. Zowie Broach is the Head of Fashion at the Royal College of Art in London. Broach has previously served as a designer-in-residence and Senior Researcher in Creative Practice at London College of Fashion. Broach has also taught at Westminster University, Parsons The New School for Design in New York, SIAC in Chicago, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, before joining the Royal College of Art. Tamara is also joined by Dr Rachel Payne, who teaches and researches visual methods, arts-based continuing professional development, art education policy and arts-based pedagogy. Payne is the subject co-ordinator for the Artist Teacher Practice MA in Education. This programme supports professionals working in visual arts education to examine their dual artist-teacher identity through participating in a community and reposition their professional practices as a result. In this podcast, Alexander, Broach, Cincik and Payne talk about: The fundamental nature of art; Creative education in the UK; Access to the creative industries; The closure of youth clubs thanks to austerity measures; The importance of decolonising the curriculum. With thanks to SHOWstudio for facilitating this important conversation.