In Response to Fine Arts Education - #1 Julia Gould & Matthew Napoli

Joey is joined by Julia Gould and Professor Matthew Napoli. They discuss the state of fine arts education at the university level in the United States, the broken state of critique, the absence of a core curriculum in the fine arts, and solutions to these problems.

Matthew Napoli is a Providence-based artist working in representational painting and drawing. Napoli is a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021 and completed a residency at the New York Academy of Art that same year. He was also the finalist for the 2022 AXA Art Prize, and in 2023, he was awarded a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Napoli can be found on Instagram @matthewjnapoli or on his website.

Julia Gould is an Artist living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Gould holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she majored in Painting and minored in Printmaking. Her work has been exhibited and awarded by organizations such as the YoungArts Foundation in Miami, the Baltimore Museum of Art, ABR Contemporary in Tribeca, T & Y Projects in Tokyo, and the National Society for Arts and Letters in Washington, DC. In addition, she has lectured in the Baltimore area and exhibited in solo and invitational juried exhibitions. Gould can be found on Instagram @julia_gould.art or her website.