Women Artists as Teachers

Dr Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri has recently published her open-access co-edited volume ‘Transmission and Gender: Women Artists as Teachers in the XXth Century’. This collection of essays highlights individual trajectories and broader debates taking place in art schools, all tracing the developments that the teaching by women artists reveals, prepares or accomplishes in the field of contemporary creation. The volume, co-edited with Dr Deborah Laks, is part of the series Passages Online by DFK (The German Centre for Art History, Paris).

Her chapter, ‘Gego’s Teaching Practice Between Geometrical Rigor and Experimentation’, explores the pedagogical approach of the German-born Jewish artist Gertrud Goldschmidt, better known as Gego, and her impact on modernist art and education in Venezuela.