InSEA

The International Society for Education through Art. Official partner to UNESCO and globally promoting visual arts education. Art educator? Then JOIN us!

[The Arts and Minds Campaign @ArtsMindsCmpgn]

📍 Westminster, London

Today, we're taking our message to Parliament.

We're calling for an arts renaissance in education, where every child has the opportunity to learn, create and thrive.

#ArtsAndMinds

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

Great write up about us in the first edition of VAIS Magazine! Many thanks to our vice president @theartcriminal and to the editor and team behind this.
https://t.co/fzJ3kT6ZZp

[Shockat Adam MP @ShockatAdam]

The UK must not sleepwalk into digital dependency.

Who holds our data? Who controls our infrastructure? And what happens when we become reliant on systems we cannot independently scrutinise or change?

Productive to have these discussions with fellow MPs and industry leaders to help build a more resilient, secure and sovereign digital future.

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

World Council meeting held on 26th September. Many thanks to all who attended and contributed to discussions. You are great!

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

@theartcriminal True- be Dolly not Donald!

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

@LucieH_GHMP Lovely imagery.

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

The International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) extends its deepest sympathy and solidarity to our members, colleagues, friends and communities across Colombia following the devastating earthquake and aftermath.
Estamos con ustedes, Colombia. Patsey Bodkin
President.

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

@DeputyGrocott Durham Cathedral.

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

Please join us for our two FREE art education August webinars! For members and non members. Book a place online- check your time zone too….. https://t.co/6HvapxcpgV

[Geoffrey Best @geoffrey_best]

@Miss_Snuffy Ofgs! Academic education IS stretching and vocational … for some, but Technical education IS stretching and vocational for others. The best schools and heads know this.

[Owen-Boomerang @OwenBoomrang]

@Miss_Snuffy @AllisonPearson Because most company CEO’s would also struggle to get a pass without revising. Maths is just a collection of mechanisms to help solve problems and most people only learn what they need to know. Education should be about inspiration not equation.

[Paul Hopkins 🙋🏽‍♂️👨🏽‍🔬🧮🖥🦡🌻 @hopkinsmmi]

@theartcriminal @educationgovuk You wonder why the DfE (including minister Josh MacAlister) would fund Oak founded by Matt Hood and David Thomas (DfE advisor). I wonder if Josh and Matt know each other … 🤔😳🧐😮
(iykyk) #wickedweb #intheclub

[Mr P MBE @ICT_MrP]

Ofsted say they care about wellbeing, but when they inspect during a heatwave when children were sick and staff couldn’t help because they were stuck with inspectors it proves once again, they don’t care about wellbeing and never have.

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

@RogersHistory And what’s your excuse then sir!

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

Harrowing BBC piece, based on File on 4 investigation, on use of isolation in schools. https://t.co/JsQAEsHH9f Scrutiny stepping up on "no excuses" behaviour policies, it seems, following Mossbourne safeguarding review and Athena developments.

[The Arts and Minds Campaign @ArtsMindsCmpgn]

Rachel Elliott from the English Folk Dance and Song Society believes now is the time to "get more funding for teacher training, more teachers in the classroom, more arts specialists, more arts in the curriculum."

Sign our open letter if you agree ➡️ https://t.co/EFTw64GFdN

@TheEFDSS

[The Arts and Minds Campaign @ArtsMindsCmpgn]

Tina Ramdeen from Roundhouse wants "designated funding, allocated spaces, and the workforce to nurture and support young people's creativity."

Do you agree?

Sign our open letter ➡️ https://t.co/LvLOwVmeeq

[InSEA @InSEAOfficial]

@theartcriminal Nice work!

[The Arts and Minds Campaign @ArtsMindsCmpgn]

What do schools need to restore the value of arts subjects?

More time and space in the curriculum.

Sign our open letter ➡️ https://t.co/LvLOwVmeeq

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker).

But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective.

It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the book👇) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent.

There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music.

For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.