The Artist Collective Summer School

The Artist Collective Summer School is a London-based program I produced as Assistant Dean of Research and Public Projects at Yale School of Art in collaboration with Mark Hallett, Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre, and Richard Birkett, Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The summer program was hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre in cooperation with Yale School of Art and ICA London, as well as the Yale Art History Department and the Yale Center for British Art. Taking place over 12 days in July 2019, the summer school provided an opportunity for graduate students from Yale School of Art as well as the Yale History of Art Department to join UK-based peers and other members of the UK’s art community in participating in a series of day-long workshops and seminars led by art historians, curators, critics, and artists around the central theme of ‘artist collectives.’
Summer School, 2019

This workshop at the ICA London on the Independent Group of the 1950s— which operated both inside and outside the ICA, and instigated innovative forms of artistic, social and intellectual collaboration— was led by Ben Cranfield, Senior Tutor, Curatorial Theory and History, Curating Contemporary Art Programme, Royal College of Art.

Handling session and ‘zine making workshop at Women’s Art Library in Goldsmiths University focused on women’s photography and publishing collectives in the 1970s, which developed within the context of the rapidly growing Women’s Liberation Movement. The workshop was led by Althea Greenan, Curator of the Women's Art Library, Catherine Grant, Associate Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures and Senior Lecturer (Critical Studies) in Art, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University, and Amy Tobin, Lecturer in the History of Art at Cambridge University and Curator at Kettle's Yard.

Documentation of one of the group's final project presentation.