Issue 26: Knowledge
Mr Green and Ms Novak are two of the many art educators who juggle teaching with artistic practices. Ms Novak and Mr Green On Art Education is an ongoing cross-disciplinary project that examines and reflects this juggling act.
The art educator is framed within literature as an expert practitioner at the intersection of the disciplines of art and education. Art education is a rich field of research, quick to champion best practice, professional rigour and easy with a call to arms. However it rarely addresses the reality that being an artist-teacher these days more often than not means you exist in a flux between two states of being.
Both artist and teacher are instruments of communication in highly contested, politicised fields of practice. But are artists who opt to teach sell-outs? How do you sustain the artistic practice mandated by your educator role when you are too busy working as an educator?
Ms Novak and Mr Green On Art Education is an ongoing cross-disciplinary project that examines and reflects this juggling act.
Daniel Green is a Sydney-based artist, educator and broadcaster. His practice involves thinking about and consuming entertainment media across audio, video and performance. His work has been shown in festivals and galleries throughout Australia including Electrofringe, Next Wave, Firstdraft, Pelt, Artspace, BUS Projects, Platform and Penrith Regional Gallery. He recently has collaborated with Samuel Bruce under the moniker Bruce Green, and through this project has completed residencies at Anyplace Projects and Cementa in Kandos, New South Wales.
Daniel received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Western Sydney in 2005. Since then he has worked as a Co-Director of Firstdraft in 2006 and 2007, and of Electrofringe in 2009 and 2010 for Electrofringe. In 2013 and 2014 Daniel was the Producer and Coordinator of the Sydney Mini Maker Faire, held at the Powerhouse Museum. He also co-hosts Something Else on Eastside FM in Sydney.
In 2012 Daniel completed a Master of Teaching from the University of Sydney. In addition to working as a secondary Visual Arts teacher, Daniel has worked in a number of facilitator roles within the museum and education sector, teaching digital media production, introductory electronics, and game design at Thinkspace at the Powerhouse Museum, and MacICT Innovations Centre at Macquarie University.
The collision of these roles inspired “Ms Novak and Mr Green On Art Education”, an ongoing cross-disciplinary project with Karolina Novak that examines and reflects the juggling act of dual practices.
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Karolina was born and lives in Sydney. She studied printmaking at CoFA and teaching at Sydney Uni. She works across a range of media, though is still most drawn to paper-based work. She has worked in schools, galleries and museums as a teacher, educator and producer, as well as assistant to artist and author Jeannie Baker, and spent many years selling neckware in a tie shop that no longer exists.
While she often uses her work to reflect on specific personal experiences, working in education in particular has given her an interest in shared stories and working collaboratively with audiences.
She is also one half of Ms Novak and Mr Green, an ongoing crossdisiplinary project with Daniel Green that examines and reflects the juggling act of dual practices.
Runway Journal acknowledges the custodians of the nations our digital platform reaches. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations artists, writers and audiences.
Runway Journal is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Runway Journal receives project support from the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Runway Journal acknowledges the custodians of the nations our digital platform reaches. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations artists, writers and audiences.
Runway Journal is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Runway Journal receives project support from the NSW Government through Create NSW.