Response to the Foundation Lecture Series: Phillip Glahn (week 2)

As week one's foundation lecture, the topic that guest speaker Phillip Glahn spoke of was seemingly appropriate for the first art talk.  It was interesting that he began speaking of the Bauhaus movement, how it was the first school of craft and fine art in Germany, and moved on to talking about the setup, or foundation of art schools.  Glahn explained that the German word "Bauhaus" means "building school," and that essentially after this movement art schools began to be modeled after this school.  He then took the lecture another direction, speaking of how art schools are set up today, perticuarly Tyler School of Art.  Although being a student of Tyler is a lot of work and all Tyler students must begin in the "foundations" program (taking a lot of basic classes that teach concepts that can be applied to many differnent types of art), Tyler's Foundations program is set up this way to give most of us young artists (who usually don't know what type of art they want to major in) a chance to try new things and experiment to see what we enjoy.  Because of this way of teaching, art students get a wider variety in different fields of the arts.