Colophon
The study was commissioned by the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK) Sachsen-Anhalt between May 2016 and December 2017 and was financially supported by the Ministry of Education of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.
Special thanks are due in particular to Beáta Maria Hinz as head and coordinator of the “Artists in Schools” project (since its launch in 1996) and to the board and office of the professional association for their extensive and continuous support with the research. We would also like to thank all the artists and school representatives who have reflected on their collaborations, some of which have lasted many years, in discussions and interviews, thus making knowledge and experiences from project practice accessible to the public.
About the author
Thomas Kümmel studied painting/graphic glass with Prof. Christine Triebsch at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle from 1997 to 2003. He then worked for the university in the areas of public relations and the university gallery until 2010. In 2009, he founded klbkultur GbR together with Dr. Luckner-Bien and has since worked freelance in the field of public relations for artists and cultural institutions. From 2011 to 2015, he was part of the first generation of cultural agents in the nationwide model program “Cultural Agents for Creative Schools” initiated and funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Stiftung Mercator. During this time, his main tasks included the development of a cultural school profile at the schools he supervised in the rural area around the district town of Mühlhausen in the state of Thuringia and, closely related to this, the establishment of sustainable cooperation between schools, artists and cultural institutions. Since October 2015, he has been working for the state program “Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen Baden-Württemberg” (Cultural Agents for Creative Schools Baden-Württemberg) and will be supporting a total of three schools of different sizes and school types in Heidenheim an der Brenz until summer 2019.
Technical implementation of the presentation for the web, programming and administration
Christoph Gabriel, hatpep