The Bruce High Quality Foundation and CREATIVE TIME present Teach 4 Amerika, A Rally for Anarchy in Arts Education
www.teach4amerika.org

Tour Dates & Locations

New York, NY
· March 29 rally at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, New York, 6:30 pm
General Admission, RSVP required:

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Philadelphia, PA
· March 31: rally at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
· April 1: conversation at Vox Populi

Pittsburgh, PA
· April 2: rally at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon
· April 3: conversation at The Waffle Shop

Chicago, IL
· April 6: conversation at Roots & Culture, in collaboration with threewalls
· April 7: rally at University of Illinois at Chicago

Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
· April 9: rally at the University of Minnesota in partnership with The Walker Arts Center
· April 10: conversation at The Soap Factory, in collaboration with 1419 and The Experimental College of the Twin Cities (EXCO)

Detroit, MI
· April 12: rally presented by the College for Creative Studies’ Woodward Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
· April 13: conversation at Detroit SOUP

Denver, CO
· April 16: conversation at Illiterate Magazine
· April 17: rally at the Museum for Contemporary Art Denver

Santa Fe, NM
· April 20: rally location TBD
· April 21: conversation at SITE Santa Fe

Los Angeles, CA
· April 24: conversation at LAXART
· April 25: rally at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art

San Francisco, CA
· April 27: rally presented by the San Francisco Art Institute Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
· April 28: conversation at Southern Exposure

Portland, OR
· May 1: rally at Portland State University
· May 2: conversation at the Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art

MARCH 29–MAY 2, 2011
NYC / Philadelphia / Pittsburgh / Chicago / Minneapolis / Detroit / Denver / Santa Fe / Los Angeles / San Francisco / Portland

The Bruce High Quality Foundation’s (BHQF) Teach 4 Amerika tour is a five-week, 11-city, coast-to-coast road trip that crosses state lines and institutional boundaries to inspire and enable local art students to define the future of their own educational experience. Traveling the byways of America in a limousine painted as a school bus, BHQF will visit university art departments, art schools, art institutions, and alternative spaces across the nation, bringing together concerned educators, artists, arts administrators, and—most importantly—students to brainstorm on the future of art schools. What are they for? How should they be organized? If not for careers, what is the essence of art itself? These fundamental questions have long haunted artists, and the BHQF are interested in putting the questions back in the hands of students across America. Curated by Nato Thompson, Chief Curator at Creative Time, Teach 4 Amerika will include a combination of dynamic public rallies and intimate conversations hosted by local partners in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Denver, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland.

Teach 4 Amerika is presented in partnership with 1419, Carnegie Mellon, College for Creative Studies, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Detroit SOUP, The Experimental College of the Twin Cities (EXCO), Feldman Gallery at PNCA, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illiterate Magazine, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, LAXART, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University Art and Social Practice MFA, Roots & Culture, San Francisco Art Institute, The Soap Factory, Southern Exposure, threewalls, Tyler School of Art, University of Minnesota, Vox Populi, The Waffle Shop, Walker Art Center, The Andy Warhol Museum, and Win Wear.

About Creative Time

Since 1974, Creative Time has presented the most innovative art in the public realm. The New York-based nonprofit has worked with over 2,000 artists to produce more than 335 groundbreaking public art projects that have ignited the public’s imagination, explored ideas that shape society, and engaged millions of people around the globe.

Creative Time seeks to convert the power of artists’ ideas into works that inspire social change and stimulate public dialogue on timely issues, while initiating a dynamic conversation among artists, sites, and audiences. A vanguard presenter of public art in New York, Creative Time recently began presenting national and global projects and initiatives, making it the only public arts organization with programs that have reached from New York to New Orleans, Haiti to Hanoi, and Dubai to Denver. These projects further Creative Time’s belief in the importance of artists in society and the power of art to raise consciousness, expose injustices, and imagine a better world.

For more information on Creative Time and its projects, visit www.creativetime.org.
Support

Lead project support for Teach 4 Amerika is provided by John Bader and Peggy Jacobs Bader.

Creative Time is funded through the generous support of corporations, foundations, government agencies, and individuals. Major programming support for 2010–11 has been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Lambent Foundation, a project of The Tides Center. We also gratefully acknowledge public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties. The official hotel sponsor of Creative Time is The Standard, and the official and preferred flower designer of Creative Time is Fleurs Bella. The official restaurant sponsor of Creative Time is Park Avenue.