March is the month of struggle. Does the existing art education system adequately prepare students for the challenges of living as an artist after graduation? We won’t just discuss this big question with long keynotes. Instead we open an alternative school for one day with workshops that address practical and theoretical tools we miss in education today. From dealing with finances to empowerment through solidarity to activating our political potential, let's think together. A new curriculum aimed at fostering a sustainable and rewarding creative life is brought into being.

Saturday, 27th of March, 13.00 – 18.00
Location: ONLINE VIA ZOOM (you will receive the link after registration)
Presented by SOTA + KASK students - hosted by Kunsthal Gent

THIS EVENT IS PART OF
SOTA Fair Arts Almanac 2022
State Of The Arts (SOTA) is an open platform reimagining the art world today. We belief, the transition of an art world towards more fair practice can also serve as a catalyst for genuine change in society at large.

In 2019 SOTA published the first Fair Arts Almanac. The content of the book was generated during a week long summer camp in 2018 with about 70 contributors. The compilation of various articles in this first edition was deliberately open for debate and associative, with a lot of contradictions, loose ends and inconsistencies.

In 2021, SOTA will set out a series of daylong encounters, organized each last Saturday of the month on another location in Belgium and about a different topic - or question that lives within the art world these days. These issues are distributed over the calendar of the full year, taking the sensibilities of the various seasons into account.