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In the fall of 2009 the group would answer its own question by launching an unaccredited art school, the Bruce High
Quality Foundation University, where "students are teachers are administrators are staff." A proposition during Prelude 09 took the form of a "project-based" course at the Martin
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Lieberman Gallery in New York that ended with the question: "How can we imagine a sustainable alternative to professionalized art education?" The talk, "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Bull", mimicked that of
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