Visual a/r/tography in art museums

This article describes an a/r/tographic project entitled Art for Learning Art wherein the audience was invited to respond visually to a museum exhibition-installation. The three main objectives were: first, to rethink current practices in museum education in an effort to reach a dialectical synthesis between art-making and educational activities; second, to further develop three key identities held within a/r/tography; and third, to develop visual research instruments in a/r/tographic final reports. An exhibition-installation was organized around seven engravings, two photographs and one sculpture including the artworks by L. Bourgeois, E. Chillida, E. Munch, P. Picasso, A. Tàpies, among others, in the Spanish Caja-Granada Memory of Andalusia Museum. The main educational goal was to engage visitors with learning to interact visually with original artwork before producing new images that would then immediately became part of the installation.