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Podcast: New Books in Education
Episode: Gary Alan Fine, āTalking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Educationā (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Description: Most people have heard of the Masters of Fine ArtsāāMFAāādegree, but few know about the grueling process one must undergo to complete one. InĀ Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education (University of Chicago Press, 2018), sociologist and ethnographer Dr. Gary Alan Fine asks how MFA students learn to make art and to speak intelligently about their work, how they become āartistsā and what what it means to be an āMFA.ā
Gary Alan FineĀ is the James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Fine has received fellowships from the Guggenhei...