March Meeting 2016: Day Two
By Denise Tsui
Left to right: Critic and curator Murtaza Vali; Elizabeth Giorgis, director of Modern Art Museum, Ethiopia; Tina Sherwell, director of Palestine
The second day of March Meeting 2016 began in a predictably ordinary manner expected of symposiums: the morning was plagued by the absence of many attendees, most of whom drifted in somewhere between mid-morning sandwiches and the fourth cup of coffee. Yet the first panel discussions of the day were certainly worthy of sacrificing that precious extra hour of sleep. Focusing on current models of art education in the United Arab Emirates, speakers convincingly made a case for the need to improve curriculums and approaches on all levels of learning, from elementary through to tertiary education and beyond.
