The final entrepreneurship course, called Self-Organising in Art, is available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mJvWv2sQny4ekU9RtpkXDWq-78Qu5R2IPpptGD690Cw/edit – gid=0
CLICK ON THE LINK TO SEE THE BOOKLET ABOUT THE PROJECT AND ITS OUTCOMES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TroN4nNo1QR7OOjswAIIlq7fCpuiMt7m/view?usp=sharing
By the end of the project, 101 students participated in the course – 41 more than planned. This means the course raised interest in students, as they found a lack of practical material in their other coursework. Here are some responses from the feedback questionnaire to the question: Do you find that the course should be part of your curriculum?
Lithuania:
“It should be mandatory. It contains essential information all artists should know.”
“It’s a necessary look into the ‘real world.’”
“To be honest, I think that every student in the academy should attend this course, because it is a survival guide for a young artist.”
Denmark:
“Definitely! I always missed a course like that. Unfortunately, in art schools there is too little communication about the time after graduating and what possibilities you have.”
“Yes, because after feeling safe in your artistic practice, how you continue your practice in the post-school world is the most important.”
Estonia:
“Yes, because without it, it would be hard to make sense of the art world in all its complexity.”
Feedback from a lecturer
I am glad to have had the opportunity to participate in the Art Car course project and be one of the Self Organising in Art’s course lecturers.
Firstly, if assessing my own study experience in Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts and today’s study program, there is still a lack of self-organization, project management and art curating courses dedicated to art students.
Expanded look at the contemporary art and culture market is very useful, so concentrated different profile lectures, contemporary art and culture field presentation is very actual gesture in studying process.
During the course, students were introduced to the basic principles of how to organise the project. They had an opportunity to bring closer to the real implementation of their artistic ideas and conceptions and understand the mechanisms of culture financing, which essentially applies to both local and international projects, residencies and other educational and social projects.
It’s very delighting that students are not afraid of collaboration and team work. Students of different specialties worked in groups, were able to discuss and look for common solutions, share responsibilities and jobs and use each other’s strengths and improve weaknesses.
The course was to prepare more than 10 successful projects through two semesters, one of which already saw the light of day for the course only halfway through. I very hope, that students won’t lose the knowledge and courage they gained during the course, and become very active participants of Lithuanian cultural life.
Elena Grudzinskaitė
Lecturer
Vilnius Academy of Arts
The project is funded by Nordplus Horizontal