Art Education alumna Ume Hussain (BFA ’05) was recently featured in HUFFPOST where she discusses how VCUarts shaped her interests and ideologies regarding art.
A few years after obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in art education and teaching, both elementary and high school, while maintaining an independent art studio, Ume Hussain realized she had hit a wall in both her art practice and her teaching. Looking back now, she sees that she was transitioning from doing two-dimensional works to sound and video work, but it was not nearly as clear back then. She was also having difficulty understanding her position vis-à-vis the art market.
In regards to teaching, she started to realize that she could not change the world by teaching art and she seriously started to wonder: What can art do? What can art contribute to the world? In time, she came to realize that art has a purpose, and is a way of helping others articulate who they are. Now Ume Hussain sees that art can be quite introspective and is a search through questions for answers. Art is one of the main ways to have people consider how they understand existence and relate to others, and it can be an incredibly transformative experience.
For Ume Hussain, art can allow an individual to reexamine preconceived ideas.
Read the full article in HUFFPOST.
Photo from HUFFPOST.
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