IN PRAISE PABLO HELGUERA
Love for Pablo Helguera whose hopeful letter to a future arts educator speaks to the power of imagining a more equitable tomorrow. Full of self-reflection, Helguera reminds us of the perils of Romanticism, specifically, the great difficulty artists have in not being able to see the world “without ourselves at the center, and by extension, it is hard not to see knowledge as a way to be above others.”
Devastatingly sincere, Helguera gets to the crux of the problem quickly openly admitting that art education can feel like a failed profession. How can a platform meant to dismantle systems of power and oppression “perpetuate them under guise of learning”?
—Steve Rivera
6.10.21
