Organised as part of AAA’s twentieth anniversary, Life Lessons is a new series that examines models of education led by artists. We ask: What was the most influential lesson they learned in school? And how have they, in turn, passed on what they learned about forms of knowledge and care to their students or communities of learners?

Scheduled for spring 2020 to spring 2021, Life Lessons presents online and offline conversations and workshops with artists and art collectives who teach at universities, build educational programmes at arts organisations, and run their own schools. Each session addresses their unique teaching methods.

The fourth session invites Tsherin Sherpa and Wang Gongyi, artists who were trained in the traditional painting styles of Tibetan thangka painting and Chinese ink painting respectively, and have incorporated these techniques into their contemporary practice as well as their years as instructors. In this session, the artists will discuss their early education, enduring interest in traditional methods, and how these methods and spirit have influenced their later artistic practice and approach to teaching.

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