If you don't like protest photograhy or portraits or anything like that, steer clear of my threads for the next day or two. Not to discourage anyone, but there are a lot of different sort of photos and emotions that this thing evoked (hell, I shot almost 700 images in the 3 hour protest) and I'd like to show some to ya'll.
The backstory (for those that don't know) is the National Art School has been a government funded and supported school for a while now, and was pretty much Bob Carr's project... but when Carr left, Iemma decided it would be better for it to go to the highest bidder rather than leave the place running.
This is obviously upsetting people, but upsetting them more would be the a place like UNSW's COFA buying it out, which is what is likely to happen.
NAS is taught on the old school style of teaching art where master teaches apprentice whereas COFA tosses most history out the window and teaches theory, possibly explaining why most COFA students are designers rather than artists.
Another idea that's apparently been thrown in the mix has been one where the NAS campus, which was formerly the Sydney Women's Gaol (behind the courthouse in Darlinghurst) called for UNSW turning it into a Law campus. Blech.
