24 Sep 2026
15:30 - 18:30
Secret Arts Teachers: Masterclass Programme
As part of the Secret Arts Teachers exhibition, Framer Framed presents the workshop Wicked Card Assignments by Saskia van Heugten. The workshop takes place on Sunday 27 September at 16:00.
During this workshop, Van Heugten guides participants in making artistic cards. Participants craft their cards in five one-minute rounds, with reduced senses. The workshop is open to everyone, including children, regardless of prior artistic experience. Please register here.
About Secret Arts Teachers
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 & Credits
This event is in Dutch. Admission is free, pay what you can.
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.
Location
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093KS, Amsterdam
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Exhibitions
Exhibition: Secret Arts Teachers
A group presentation in which the classroom enters the exhibition space
Agenda
Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Wicked Card Assignments
Saskia van Heugten hosts a workshop on wicked cards at Framer Framed
Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Oracle Reading
Secret Arts Teacher Sveva de Valk hosts an oracle card workshop at Framer Framed
Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Master Forgers
In this workshop led by Secret Arts Teacher Tessa Smal, participants take on the role of master forgers and recreate a work of art in their own style
Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Valuable Failure
This workshop by Secret Arts Teacher Naomi Jansen focuses on the value of failure, shame and shortcomings
