A Teaching Case Study: Expanded Life Drawing

Questions around our bodies are constantly evolving. Within the fine arts, life drawing practice and the study of the nude form has had a long pedagogical history, tracing back to Pliny the Elder’s recounting of Zeuxis and his models. While classical academic training has lost relevance in the post-modern art education, life drawing practice continues to persist in areas such as media arts, liberal arts and the figurative arts. How do we adapt and tune classical fine art pedagogies towards global contemporary relevance? This case study session will share interdisciplinary strategies developed in the past decade of teaching life drawing in Higher Education, across fine arts, liberal arts, and media art tertiary environments, in collaboration with medicine and science.

Presenter: Yanyun Chen, Professor of the Practice (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University)

Session type: Case Study

Time listed is Singapore time.