This project started about ten years ago, when I knew my Art School teaching days were numbered. As a photo essay, it is a wander through the studios at the Corcoran College of Art, American University, and University of Maryland, ranging from foundation classrooms to grad school studios. It includes an essay by Josh Shannon, my colleague from UMD, who teaches contemporary art history and has written extensively about the fate of art in the latter half of the 20th

Each image is in some ways a portrait of a student. The sets of relationships between the images constitute what could be a long teaching day, moving from one space to the next, adapting to the changing material circumstances and their suggestive possibilities.

The pdf represents a boxed portfolio (7" x 24") of thirty-six triptych prints on hahnemuhle photo rag paper, with texts and an index in a linen bound clamshell box. Art School's other manifestation is as a set of large banner prints, 24” x 99”, now rolled up in storage, to be exhibited some day…

Allyson Clay: Double Self Portrait, 2001

Selected Reviews and essays 1992 - 2008