art/vision/voice - Maryland Institute College of Art

Tomas Atencio, Talk To Me, American Conversations,
Arcadia Pictures, 1997.
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the communities served, illuminate the students’ struggles, and give
insight into the difficulty of changing institutions aimed at educating
artists. The curricula developed in these programs are, for some,
the first of their kind, and herald a new generation of art preparation
in fine arts institutions. They were born out of the resistance to a
model that many of us felt had failed us in preparing us to be artists.
In the pedagogy and practices of the cap programs, storytelling has
become a way to learn, to reinvent, and to perfect how we teach, learn,
and make art. Tomas Atencio tells us that “the best way to capture
history is through the stories people tell of themselves”
These are our stories. This is our history.