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The nomadic art gallery has teamed up with Argentine artist Falopapas for a summer exhibition at the Sagamore Hotel.

Photography by Rafael Delceggio

Created in South Florida, homework gallery is the brainchild of Aurelio Aguiló and Mayra Mejia that challenges classic curatorial norms and serves as a safe space within the art world. Working to increase inclusivity and accessibility within the industry, they have had a global focus since their inception during 2021’s Miami Art Week. An experimental platform for artists, they host experimental, intriguing, and multidisciplinary exhibitions that prompt human interaction and introspection.

Opening this month is “Retreat Volume I”, a solo exhibition by Néstor Augusto Turallas — known professionally as Falopapas. An Argentine visual artist born in La Plata and based in Miami, he takes viewers on an immersive journey through his one-of-a-kind visual language. With this body of work, which homework is showing at the Sagamore Hotel in South Beach, he captivates viewers with black and white sketch paintings layered on top of pastel backgrounds with neon accents. Playing with light and shadow, his work captures stillness, rest, and reflection — prompting discussions on their monumental power and importance on human growth.

Throughout the length of the exhibition, several activations will occur — organised by homework and Rayon Agency, with the support of Consulate General of Argentina and Promotion Center, as well as a movie screening hosted by the Coral Gables Art Cinema. One of these activations will be a “Meet the Artist” guided tour.

“Retreat Volume I” will be at the Sagamore Hotel, 1671 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139 from July 29 to August 12.

For more information about homework gallery, click here .

Photography by Megan DuBois

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Homework Gallery is a pop up gallery space serving Miami’s career artists

Panelists (L-R) Florencia Franceschetti, moderator and founder of Raygun Agency; Allyn Ginns Ayers LegalARTLink Director at Locust Projects; Michelle Solomon, editor of Artburst Miami and Miami Art Zine and Aurelio Aguilo, co-founder of Homework Gallery. Photo credit Raygun Agency.

Beginning a career as an artist can be a daunting task. It entails navigating the world of gallery owners, ensuring the work itself is protected through copyright and licensing, understanding legal terms for deciphering contracts, and creating publicity and buzz.

It’s a lot.

That’s where Homework Gallery comes in; they make it their mission to help emerging artists enter the art world with all the tools necessary to succeed. They recently hosted the talk “Painting the Picture: Practical Advice for Career Artists” at their pop up space in The Knoxon Hotel at 7411 Biscayne Blvd. in the MiMo District.

“Since we work with emerging artists, we want to help them launch their careers and use our shows as a springboard. We felt this was a great way to teach emerging artists about all facets of the art world: publicity, dealing with legal issues, approaching a gallery,” said Aurelio Aguilo, co-founder of Homework Gallery. “For this particular talk, we wanted to choose panelists that could help artists in the practical world.”

Held within their industrial yet welcoming nomadic gallery space, surrounded by the work of local artists Thomas Bils, Faloapas, Beth Rhodes and Dylan Matamoros in an exhibition entitled “Salad Days,” Aguilo along with speakers Michelle Solomon, Artburst Miami and Miami Art Zine editor and Allyn Gin Ayers, director of LegalARTLink at Locust Projects, shared their insight on the evening’s topic. Florencia Franceschetti, founder of Raygun Agency, served as moderator.

Topics covered by Ayers from LegalARTLink included forming an LLC, the role of galleries as a stepping stone for emerging artists, terms of a contract such as option to extend and exclusivity, compensation terms including commission of sale, intellectual property, and joint authorship. Ayers also discussed the importance of understanding confidentiality/non-compete/non-disclosure terms as well as employment relationships.

“Artists, when they’re starting out, take on several different roles including office and business manager, public relations, etc… and so we look at how to help them develop those business skills,” said Ayers.

Describing the concept behind Homework Gallery, Aguilo said, “Our style and concept of a nomadic gallery was created as a reaction to the art market, particularly in New York City. The art world has a specific calendar so we decided to develop something to deviate from the traditional art world model.”

Aligned with that mission, their hope is also to alleviate the need for artists to be everything – both creative and business savvy.

“Artists need to focus on their art, not so much the business side, so we step in with ideas for these artists, help them out, and are the stepping stone to get their art seen, particularly those we believe need that assistance,” said Aguilo.

Providing advice and insight into how to work with media to get exhibitions covered was Solomon, who brought her nearly three decades of experience as a journalist to the panel discussion.

“I know it is really difficult for artists, kind of like the separation of church and state, to not feel like a sellout,” said Solomon. “How do you unpack it and separate it, be creative but also do the business side?”

Solomon says she has seen many artists represented by galleries get disheartened because some galleries are just better equipped than others to promote artists they represent.

“I’ve privately told artists to nudge the galleries that are supposed to be working for them,” said Solomon. “I have also suggested they ask their galleries if they can do publicity on their own.”

And how to garner publicity? Solomon suggests artists point out what makes them different and to know the publication they’re pitching and that outlet’s voice.

“All publications have a specific voice so artists should write a blanket press release and then tailor the lead to each particular publication,” said Solomon. “Make the first page conversational, about you, the artist.”

Networking is essential too, especially with writers and editors “which artists should develop a relationship with and artists should also carve out time to make themselves and their work stand out. Pick out that interesting nugget about themselves and pitch that,” she said.

Then the trio tackled the question of digital art vs. real world art, which in this age of NFT’s is on everyone’s mind.

Aguilo said “it depends on the type of success and exposure an artist is looking for. I see NFT’s as a tool, it’s a medium but there has to be a physical medium. This is vital to an artist’s success.”

Solomon echoed his sentiment saying, “Completely digital isn’t off the table, if it’s interesting.”

Ayers gave her insight as an attorney, addressing legal issues and saying, “There are some risks involved in both. Digital opens artists up to the threat of being copied, it’s easy to just right click and download. There are certainly ways to prevent online work being pirated.”

The risks for physical shows Ayers said, include someone getting injured in the exhibition space and the work being damaged by the elements. She also discussed fair use, especially for collage artists.

“Collage artists have to ask themselves how transformative they are with the underlying work and how much of it are they taking?,” said Ayers.

At the end of the night, the artists in attendance left armed with the knowledge to tackle the art world and face whatever comes their way.

Next up for Homework Gallery, a pop up space during Art Basel, to be open sometime between Dec. 1-4. The space is yet to be announced.

Learn more about Homework Gallery on their website at homework.gallery and about LegalARTLink at Locust Projects at LocustProjects.org . Read about the upcoming move and expansion of Locust Projects to the Little River neighborhood HERE.

Written by Josie Gulliksen for ArtburstMiami.com , shared with permission.

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Art Homework Questions Answered

Published July, 2020

‘Art Homework Questions Answered’ (AHQA) developed as a project during the ‘at-home’ Leeds Art Gallery engagement work in the last week of March, and has carried on to a natural hiatus with the start of the school summer holiday period.

Initially a call out to home-schoolers viaFacebook, it received very little response. Meanwhile, in a similar vein, Carr Manor Community School had taken its art teaching and learning online via its website and was to an extent struggling to reach its pupils. Emerging from a positive and developing relationship, the two institutions joined forces and embarked on a collaboration aiming to reach out and enrich ‘home learning’ experience of pupils. And, to explore a way for the gallery to continue its established formal learning workshop ‘Be An Art Detective’ virtually. Our prior confidence in each other, and particularly in an approach to process-led practise, enabled the different institutions to synthesise their ‘current-time’ objectives, and add a tentative enquiry — could the endeavour offer a platform to support young people to share ideas and feelings (as art has a habit of doing), and ambitiously reach out to others to generate an online community interested in art within a ‘blended learning’ model.

AHQA compliments the KS3 and 4 Art curriculum in many aspects. The KS3 National Curriculum, states that a good Art and Design education should equip pupils with the tools to ‘be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design’, and ‘to analyse and evaluate their own work, and that of others, in order to strengthen the visual impact or applications of their work.’ At KS4 level, to attain higher levels, students must demonstrate their ability to critically analyse the work of artists, and their own. They are expected to demonstrate independence, and an ability to problem solve, think, question, develop original ideas, and make their own creative decisions. Charlotte Owen, Carr Manor Community School Teacher

Amanda: We have been working together as opportunities have arisen for a couple of years and have become increasingly confident in our different skills as educators and project managers. We were in the middle of one such project when our institutions closed as part of Covid 19 management. AHQA is not related to this project but now some weeks on, we are looking for a way to pick it up the postponed project through this new mechanism in the next academic year. I think what has been especially interesting is how we have used different access routes within the virtual to bring young people and gallery staff together, and to explore questions which co-exist within our working and personal lives. Amanda Phillips, Leeds Art Gallery

The resources for this project are available on the e-learning section of the school’s website and/or on a project-linked and school managed Instagram account, alongside the Leeds Art Gallery Facebook page. It could sound complicated, but it is not. The virtual routes act as mechanisms to bring school and gallery together, navigating some of the challenges they were both facing. Recognising that pupils were to a degree unresponsive to the school-learning routes and to the gallery’s Facebook invitation. Charlotte identified Instagram as a mutually beneficial and strategic route for communication ‘from my knowledge of teenagers at the time being, this seems to be the app of choice’. Website resources and Instagram posts were used to present to pupils the main aims and opportunities of the project.

Students had a clear understanding that they could send photographs of an artwork they had completed at home (either in response to a set brief or not) to their art teacher, and that in return they would receive personalised, specific feedback to help understand how they could make progress with the visual quality/concepts of the work. They were further asked to carefully consider a question to accompany their artwork. Students are given previous examples to support them with this higher-level thinking process. Artworks and questions are sent to the gallery for answering by gallery staff via a post on its Facebook page. Their artworks are showcased and their questions answered by gallery staff publically.

Many of the questions ensuing questions have been very personal and relevant to the life experience of the young people who were asking them. They also connected strongly to the artwork they have sent. Both in turn challenged gallery staff who were replying, it was necessary to answer from within the art institution as well as a human being — ‘are the eyes a window to the soul’ stands out as one such question. The artworks and questions within a more public than usual fora incited responses from others; school staff (on one occasion as a parent and their three-year-old), gallery Facebook users, four members of one pupil asked questions about his artwork. Furthermore, parents have signed up to the @artatcarrmanor Instagram account to enjoy the project in action. Potentially next steps are to programme the interaction by using gallery collection artworks as inspiration for thinking and making, and to potentially use it to complete the ‘Natural Encounters project connected to a forthcoming exhibition that hat to be abandoned at the start of home working. Child safety and safeguarding has been an important consideration in AHQA and was assured by obtaining parental consent for the use of pupil artwork and questions alongside first names on Instagram and Facebook. Additionally, both the @artatcarrmanor Instagram and the Leeds Art Gallery Facebook page are monitored closely to ensure any inappropriate comments made on posts are removed immediately.

AHQA demonstrates the positive impact of collaboration, for both the gallery and the school. Carr Manor pupils have had the opportunity to see their artwork ‘exhibited’ online through the Leeds Art Gallery Facebook page. They have had their questions answered by a range of gallery staff, from curators to front of house. It has allowed the students to glimpse into and have a taste of a world, in which their creativity, vision and thinking is celebrated. School and gallery learning staff have been able to support each other’s work in a mutually beneficial and creative way (we have needed this also). It has further: met the needs of the art curriculum; developed enquiry skills, widened understanding of learning within the gallery itself, and touched on the role art plays within everyday life.

The project has been sufficiently meaningful to be continued outside of COVID-19 home teaching and learning. Already it has invited other groups of young people to participate, hopes to work with a primary school collaborator, and could become a strand within the gallery’s formal learning delivery (possibly as pre or post-visit activity, as a blended/hybrid learning offer or as an on-going strand through targeted collaboration with different settings). For the school the strategic use of Instagram frame presented an additional way opportunity to to reach out to home learners within its pupil constituency, and also to widen the reach of its work via in-school collaborators.

It is evident from our collaboration that for projects such as AHQA to be successful and sustainable, it is important for schools and galleries to have opportunities to develop and build strong and confident relationships.

Creative departments in schools are seeking authentic and organic opportunities (such as this project), with the underpinning aim always being children’s engagement and enjoyment of the subject. Art education does have an important place within the classroom, where skilled teachers can share their visual knowledge with young people, in a rigorous and structured manner. We all know discipline and routine is important to effectively teach the core principles of Art. However, Art education cannot solely take place in the classroom. Students need to experience how once you have mastered the skills, you must then seek ways to communicate your work. Students need to see and experience galleries and museums, to grasp an understanding of what a thinking, breathing, living, questioning, creative, visual artist can do to share their work. Schools, therefore, are looking for enthusiastic, personable and innovative education officers, exhibition guides, curators, who can develop resources, host workshops, lead tours, and offer CPD opportunities which support this endeavour. Charlotte Owen, Carr Manor Community School Teacher

For both of us this project, albeit driven by necessity, has met this need in a mutually beneficial way and along the way has tested a way of working that can be continued within ‘new normal’ teaching and learning strategies within the school and gallery as blended/hybrid learning in and outside of the virtual realm, in the home, and through first-hand experience of artworks in a gallery.

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Homework in the Art Room: Yay or Nay?

Homework. This simple word is embraced by some and loathed by others. Believe it or not, homework has an extensive history . At one point in time, the state of California actually passed a law abolishing homework entirely for K-8th graders. That almost seems unreal in a day and age where students seem like they are constantly taking work home. The great homework debate will probably be around as long as the public school system exists.

This will cause art teachers to make a choice: Should I or shouldn’t I assign homework in my art room?

Why Should You Assign Homework?

1. it increases responsibility and preparation for the real world.

There’s no question that assigning work outside of the classroom requires a student to understand the importance of punctuality and deadlines. These skills go beyond the classroom and continue into adulthood. For example, as adults, we have to pay bills. If we forget to submit a payment there can be serious consequences. The same can be said for our art students. If students want to participate in an upcoming art show or event, homework may be necessary to meet those deadlines.

2. It Extends the Classroom Experience and Promotes Independence

Homework in the art room almost always looks different than in other classes. And it should. In order to create authentic and meaningful experiences, art should be explored independently beyond the art classroom. For many art teachers, this comes in the form of sketchbook homework. This practice allows students to refine skills and rely on their independence to create.

3. It Can Be Hands-On Exploratory Research

I don’t assign homework in my classroom. But, that doesn’t mean the art experience stops as students leave my class. Instead, homework can be approached as research. For example, if students are working on a still-life drawing, assign them to bring in personal objects from home. This way, they’ll actually be interested in the subject they are drawing. You could also assign students to take photos in other settings outside of school. Students welcome the chance to explore, and, in turn, they’ll have their own reference photos to use for a more personal art experience.

Why Shouldn’t You Assign Homework?

1. it emphasizes grades over experience.

When the act of art making becomes a task, the mentality changes. Students are no longer creating because they want to, but they are creating because they have to. Homework becomes a task completed for the grade, not for the art experience.

2. The Quality of Work Decreases

When students aren’t in the regular studio setting they have a tendency to forget and decrease the quality of their work. Homework should be assigned to reinforce a concept that has already been taught. Homework regarding concepts and skills they do not grasp will only result in poor quality of work. In these situations, students need support from the expert in the art room–their teacher.

3. There Isn’t Enough Time

When it comes to education, time is sparse. Students are already spending 8 hours a day in school. Adding hours of homework takes away from the ability for students to become well-rounded citizens. If it isn’t a priority to find time for the work in class, is it really even worth it? Is assigning a worksheet in the art room going to make your students have a more meaningful experience? Probably not. Save your paper and your time by creating invaluable experiences!

4. It Can Put an Extra Burden on Families

One of the major reasons art teachers don’t assign homework is because of the access to materials. At my school, 60% of the student body qualifies for free and reduced lunch. Some of these students don’t even have markers and crayons at home. Why put the burden of completing a task on overextended families when students don’t even have the means to do it?

Whether or not you choose to assign homework in your art room, there are going to be students who want to take their projects outside of class to work. Generally, those students want to make the time to work on their art. They are choosing to invest on their own. But the issue of material access can still be a challenge. If you are going to allow students to take work outside of your art room you will want to put some procedures in place to manage materials.

Here are some suggestions:

• Create a material check out system.
• Tape materials in a plastic bag directly to the back of the project.
• Roll the artwork or place it in a large folder made of construction paper so it doesn’t come back crumpled and destroyed.
• Provide materials, like paint, in food takeout containers.

Wherever you stand on the homework debate consider the effectiveness before assigning work. Always keep in mind, homework in your art room should positively impact student learning.

What do you think, should there be homework in the art room?

Do you assign homework in your art classes?

Magazine articles and podcasts are opinions of professional education contributors and do not necessarily represent the position of the Art of Education University (AOEU) or its academic offerings. Contributors use terms in the way they are most often talked about in the scope of their educational experiences.

Abby Schukei

Abby Schukei, a middle school art educator and AOEU’s Social Media Manager, is a former AOEU Writer. She focuses on creating meaningful experiences for her students through technology integration, innovation, and creativity.

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