Periodic presentation of work to fellow students and faculty through departmental group critiques, augmented by individual discussions with the Artist-in-Residence, develops critical evaluation skills. Most departments engage in weekly critiques, while others critique on an alternate schedule. Critiques are scheduled periodically with visiting artists and through informal crit clubs as well.
Critiques/Reviews
Critiques
Critique at Cranbrook is directed toward helping students understand the critical context in which they are operating and how to respond meaningfully to it.
Critiques
Critique at Cranbrook is directed toward helping students understand the critical context in which they are operating and how to respond meaningfully to it.
Reviews
Reviews
Each year in Fall, then again in Spring, one week is set aside for a schedule of particularly rigorous critiques called Reviews.
Unlike the weekly departmental critique process, during Reviews each student meets with Artists-in-Residence from across the Academy, and thus from across multiple disciplines, to discuss his or her work. In the Fall semester, all second-year students prepare a body of work for review, followed in the Spring semester by the first-year students. There are many goals in this process, but chief among them is for students to gain critical feedback on their specific developmental trajectory from a variety of disciplinary and critical viewpoints at a very high level. This process is a significant component of the Academy’s structure, one that encourages a rich trans-disciplinary conversation.