Talking About Art

super excited to be speaking at an art-school in America ever since living in North Carolina in the early 90s I have wanted to be part of the Black Mountain College community, Robert Rauchenberg, Anni Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, all alumni of this Bauhaus inspired arts school. Here is a sneak peek of my paper abstract for this conference in October 2024.  North, South, East, West:  Connecting Art Students Through Bernstein’s Borderlands North-South-East-West denotes the reach of the Bauhaus pedagogic method. Black Mountain College is the key to unlocking Modernism in the arts in America between the 1930s and 1950s. This qualitative arts-based research paper is set in a Bauhaus inspired art school in the North of the UK where my parents were lecturers and I also am a lecturer. Yeomans (1987) writes that, key Bauhaus lecturers escaped from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and were welcomed by Black Mountain and UK art schools. My question is, does grounding international arts pedagogy