Investing in critical and cultural theory while learning how to develop a studio practice that allows a free play of opposites, restricts formulas, and encourages students to experiment widely

This Panel proposes to provide Surprising and Practical solutions, as well as wild possibilities for Studio Courses in which students resist reading, thinking, working within a context and generally want to avoid subject driven experience. Two Artists, a Scholar and a Theory Guy explain what decades of experimental teaching, investigative research, serious considerations and soulful humor, has revealed. The problem being; how too much intellectualizing destroys the intuitive process, and how a lack of knowledge and study weakens our students’ ability to think, deprives them of a dialog with their peers, and leaves them blank as well as lost regarding contemporary thought and Issues