Pedagogies of Payment
By BFAMFAPhD
Endnotes
- For the purposes of Artists Report Back, BFAMFAPhD included individuals who gave their primary occupation as one of the following in the category ‘working artist’: writer, author, artist, actor, photographer, musician, singer, producer, director, performer, choreographer, dancer, and entertainer
- Belfiore, Elenora. “Impact, Value and Bad Economics: Making Sense of the Problem of Value in the Arts and Humanities.” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Vol. 14 Number 1, 95-110. Print.
- Ronald Barnett, Imagining the University, (New York: Routledge, 2013), 83.
- Michael Stratford, “Most Expensive Colleges,” Inside Higher Ed, July 1, 2014.
- http://collegedebt.com
- Phil Izzo, “Congratulations to Class of 2014, Most Indebted Ever”, The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2014
- William Hodgkinson, “Interview with Noam Chomsky,” Breakwater Review No. 10, Winter 2014,
- Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984), 37. Print.
- See recent cuts at University of Southern Maine and Emory University as examples of this trend: Noel K. Gallagher, “USM plans to cut 50 more faculty, slash two programs”, Portland Press Herald, October 6, 2014 and “Emory University to eliminate programs,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, September 14, 2012
- Carol Wolf, “Consent Decree Between NYS Attorney General, the Cooper Union and the Committee to Save Cooper Union“, Cooper Union Alumni Association, September 19, 2015
- Kelby Clark, Government plans to offer Corinthian students debt-relief package, USA Today, June 9, 2015
- Philip Rucker, “Liberal Democrats pressure Clinton to advocate ‘debt-free college’, The Washington Post, April 21, 2015.
Caroline Woolard is an artist and organizer whose interdisciplinary work facilitates social imagination at the intersection of art, urbanism, and political economy. After co-founding and co-directing resource sharing networks 
Blair Murphy is a curator, writer, and cultural worker based in New York City. Before moving to New York, she spent seven years in Washington, DC working as an administrative jack-of-all-trades for various arts organizations, including Washington Project for the Arts, DC Arts Center, and Provisions Library. She was a 2014-2015 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program and has curated exhibitions for venues in New York City and Washington, DC, including The Kitchen, Field Projects, Washington Project for the Arts, and DC Arts Center. She holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MA from Georgetown University. In her free time, she works a day job so she can pay her bills.
Susan Jahoda is an artist, educator, and organizer whose work includes video, photography, text, performance, installation and research based collaborative projects. Works have been produced for venues in London, Paris, Basel, New York, Seoul, and Moscow. Currently, Jahoda is a core member of BFAMFAPhD, and a co-founder of NYC To Be Determined and The Pedagogy Group, collectives of socially engaged artists and educators based in New York City. Her projects have received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding, NYC. Jahoda is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and resides in New York City.