Society for Education through Art (SEA)

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This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Society for Education through Art (SEA).


Herbert Read was President of SEA from 1946 until his death in 1968.


Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from Alexander Barclay-Russell; Edwin Ziegfeld, Head of Department at Teachers College, Columbia University and President of INSEA from 1951-1960; Sam Black of the National Committee for the Training of Teachers; Wendy Koop, Chairman of SEA; Desmond Everett; David H. Salter, Chairman of the Central London Group; Kenneth A. Jameson, Chairman of SEA; Zed Pollen of the Joint Council for Education through Art; Dennis Young and Tony van Hoboken of ATHENE; Johan H. Langaard, Director of Oslo Municipality’s Art Collections and C. Juliet Crowther and Rachel Blake, Secretaries of SEA.


The letters discuss topics including relations between SEA and INSEA; the reprint of Read’s SEA address ‘Education through Art: A Revolutionary Policy in Art Education’ by Teachers College, Columbia University; SEA’s representation on the Sunday Pictorial Committee for the Exhibition of Children’s Art 1955; SEA’s contribution to the International Congress on Art Education in Venice, August 1961; the reorganisation of the Joint Council for Education through Art; ATHENE, the journal of SEA; Read writing an article for Oslo Municipality’s Art Collections to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch; SEA’s application to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for funding and the reprint of Read’s essay ‘The Education of Free Men’ as a SEA pamphlet.


The file also includes typescript documents including 1 typescript booklet titled ‘Proposals for an Institute of Research in Art Teaching’, dated Jun 1947; 1 typescript circular to members of the Council of SEA, dated 26 Nov 1952, 2ff; 1 typescript agenda regarding the National Exhibition of Children’s Art 1955, 6ff; 1 typescript document titled ‘Notes on Some Aspects of an International Society for Education through Art based on a Statement of January, 1933’ with Read’s manuscript annotations, dated Feb 1955, 15ff; 1 typescript booklet of SEA’s ‘Exhibition: The Languages of Painting’, International Congress of Art, Lund, 1955, 9ff; 1 typescript booklet titled ‘Education through Art – A Reassessment’; 1 typescript SEA bulletin, dated Apr 1962, 11ff; 1 typescript ‘Message from the President for the Venice Meeting’, dated Mar 1963, 1f; 1 typescript minutes document from the meeting of Council members, dated Jan 1967, 2ff and 1 typescript SEA bulletin, dated Sep
1967, 29ff.

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