{quotable thursdays}

{walking to the AAH launch event on Tuesday}

In the past week I've been at two events that give me hope in the discipline I've dedicated my life to. Last Friday I hosted an event for Open Arts Objects,  a project I'm leading, which provides short films and support materials to support the teaching of Art History in schools. (It was held at the charming Art Workers' Guild)

{presenting at the Art Workers' Guild}

For my presentation I put up on the powerpoint an excerpt from our statement that we wrote during the campaign to save the A-level Art History:

One of Art History’s many strengths is that it is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Through the study of art you can learn about gender relations, philosophy, anthropology, sociology or economics, not to mention its important relationship with history. At a time when everyone is glued to their smartphones, looking at images on twitter, Instagram or Facebook, the ability to understand, and more importantly, to be able to analyse critically the wealth of images that bombard us seems more pressing than ever.

It's been hard work but well worth it, and I would say perseverance is the key... Recently I've been busier than ever and feeling rather stressed. But for the first time in my life, I feel like things are starting to fall into place, and the hard work has paid off.

{success}

On Tuesday I was at another event, the launch of the new redesigned Association for Art History (previously the Association of Art Historians). There, once again was a palpable energy...energy in a discipline that is seeking to widen its horizons by expanding global definitions of art, and doing so by teaching a global art history. An Art History for all, not only for a select few. We are a discipline that is seeking to widen participation in every possible way. 

It's exciting times and I'm happy to be apart of it.

{new horizons!}

If you've got time, why don't you check out our really short films? you might learn a thing or two! and not just about art but about the complexities of our world.

xo

L

{quotable thursdays}

This will be brief and frantic because I'm having one of the busiest weeks of my life...
Today is the EU referendum. Use your right to vote! I feel so happy to have the right to vote and to have a say in the future of the country I live in:

{everybody should have the right to vote}

Tomorrow, I have to leave the house at a very very very early hour to head into London and do some filming at the V&A for our new third level module, before it opens to the public:

{on etsy}

{lights, camera, action}

From there, I'm running to an exam board in Milton Keynes, and then from there, running to my cousins in Essex. It'll be a day on trains, in meetings, in front of a camera, and I guarantee a high degree of stress.
Must get back to practising my script!
xo
L