Proximity 008, The Education as Art issue, is at the printer. This massive 232 page edition is edited by Jim Duignan and Albert Stabler. It will be released soon. Thanks for waiting... The discourses around fine art and education are both “problem children” of the Enlightenment.  Both were ideally envisioned as unbounded arenas of free inquiry and experimentation, and both are caught up today in moribund, directionless institutions (often the exact same institutions), quickly sinking into popular disrepute and fiscal insolvency.  The search for a new direction, both in art and in education, has moved largely outside of institutions, and the common ground is in projects we are referring to as “education as art.”  The upcoming issue of Proximity takes on this theme through a number of profiles, interviews, essays, and narratives. This issue includes meditations, conversations, and collaborations around "education as art" from a number of perspectives.  Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and Javier Rodrigo, Michael Piazza, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Lavie Raven, Lisa Junkin, Jazmen McKinnor, Louise Dreier, Elizabeth Knafo, Caroline Liebman, Alexander Keefe, Daniel Fuller, Dara Greenwald, Jesse Senechal, Rebecca Zorach, Jorge Lucero, Huong Ngo, Paul Mack, Andrew Oesch, InCUBATE,  Noah Berlatsky, Sara Black and John Preus, Katie Hargrave, Susannah Kite Strang, Emmy Bright, Zach Cahill, Chris Cronin, Bert Stabler, Erin Elder, and Paul Sargent. The cover image is by Todd Baxter, whose Owl Scouts series is featured in the magazine. Portfolios selections include   Christopher Michlig, and The Present Group.  You might want to preorder issue 008 now before it becomes unavailable.