Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Sweet Memories
In a workshop inspired by artist Simone Post, who recreated her own childhood home with marshmallows, Koning will guide participants in learning through play, throwing aside expectations and technical constraints in favour of trial and error.
In revisiting childhood, Koning wishes for participants to revisit their ability to play, be it through recreating memories or places from childhood, or creating something entirely new.
The workshop is open to everyone, regardless of prior artistic experience. What is most important is to have fun and be playful!
From 11 to 27 September 2026, Framer Framed presents Secret Arts Teachers, a group presentation in which the classroom enters the exhibition space. The exhibition is the result of an international project by the Art Education research group at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, in which art teachers use their teaching practice as an artistic workspace.
In Secret Arts Teachers, art teachers work on the basis of a single shared question: what does art look like when you create it at the heart of the classroom, together with students? The project is based on the concept of the Teacher as Conceptual Artist, in which the distinction between teaching and making art is blurred. Teachers share their own artistic practice with the students and treat the classroom as a temporary art collective. The students are co-creators and the learning process itself is part of the work. On display in the exhibition are the surprising outcomes of these experiments, ranging from playful assignments to activist interventions and forms of (deliberate) failure.
Secret Arts Teachers was initiated by the Art Education research group organised by the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and brought together twenty art teachers from primary and secondary schools across the Netherlands. During various meetings in Amsterdam, they exchanged experiences, developed new teaching methods and took part in inspirational sessions led by artists and theatre makers. This gave rise to new educational assignments that allow room for uncertainty, play and failure, ranging from activist actions to the forgery of a masterpiece.
Guided by guest curator Kevin van Braak the exhibition explores the question of how art and education relate to one another when they are not approached as separate spheres, but as something that, in practice, constantly intersects and evolves.
Info & CreditsThis event is in Dutch. Admission is free, pay what you can. Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend! This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken. For seated programmes, places are always made available for wheelchair users. Please speak to the host before the programme begins.
Secret Arts Teachers has been curated by the Art Education Research Group at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), Framer Framed and Kevin van Braak, and is made possible in part by the ELJA Foundation and the Cultuurfonds.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
LocationFramer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093KS, Amsterdam
