Teaching Experience- Cranbrook

[sculptress]

Hey folks- does anyone know if Cranbrook provides their students with an opportunity to teach? Being only a graduate-degree granting school I just don't know. If anyone has some knowledge I'd love to be the recipient.

 

Thanks!

[herki]

Hey folks- does anyone know if Cranbrook provides their students with an opportunity to teach? Being only a graduate-degree granting school I just don't know. If anyone has some knowledge I'd love to be the recipient.

 

Thanks!

No, they don't offer any opportunity to teach. When I met with people there, they made it pretty clear that in going to Cranbrook, you are getting two years where developing your studio practice is the absolute center of attention. Between that and on-campus living, all your time can be split between three things: your art, sleeping and eating. I thought it was amusing that they have full kitchens on campus, but they're in the studio areas, not the dormitories.

You can possibly get a studio assistantship your second year, but I think those are more about helping the departments run smoothly and doing odd-jobs around the program, not teaching. 

 

I think the lack of TAships goes into the whole feeling that Cranbrook is almost more like an artists' community than a school. The faculty members aren't called professors, they call them artists-in-residence. The faculty spends a lot of time in their personal studios, which are often right nearby the student studios, and they mostly live on-campus too. I feel like going to Cranbrook isn't about preparing you to teach art, but rather for you to really refine your studio practice.

 

 

That was my impression, at least, from my research and talking to people there. Hope that helps. Perhaps someone more familiar with the school knows of opportunities for teaching at the community college 2 miles away or something.

[sculptress]

No, they don't offer any opportunity to teach. When I met with people there, they made it pretty clear that in going to Cranbrook, you are getting two years where developing your studio practice is the absolute center of attention. Between that and on-campus living, all your time can be split between three things: your art, sleeping and eating. I thought it was amusing that they have full kitchens on campus, but they're in the studio areas, not the dormitories.

You can possibly get a studio assistantship your second year, but I think those are more about helping the departments run smoothly and doing odd-jobs around the program, not teaching. 

 

I think the lack of TAships goes into the whole feeling that Cranbrook is almost more like an artists' community than a school. The faculty members aren't called professors, they call them artists-in-residence. The faculty spends a lot of time in their personal studios, which are often right nearby the student studios, and they mostly live on-campus too. I feel like going to Cranbrook isn't about preparing you to teach art, but rather for you to really refine your studio practice.

 

 

That was my impression, at least, from my research and talking to people there. Hope that helps. Perhaps someone more familiar with the school knows of opportunities for teaching at the community college 2 miles away or something.

 

Thanks so much for the info!!! Greatly appreciated.

[Britt0131]

Hello,

I worked at Cranbrook as an intern. I was surrounded by many graduate students as its a small community. Yes, they teach the camps in the summer that is all art based courses. They also do some educational tours for the kids that attend Cranbrook. As for Cranbrook students teaching undergrads..no. However, my whole undergraduate program had a lot of young Cranbrook grads teaching as assistants after their program was done

Edited March 31, 2013 by Britt0131