Miss Othmar School for Teachers – with Timmy Simonds 🗓

Intimate meeting for teachers to listen and reflect on the sound of teaching. Participating teachers will listen collectively to recordings of themselves teaching through a tool that distorts the quality of the audio recordings. The aim of this meeting is not to assess course content nor delivery of information but instead to listen for things like rhythm, embodiment, the environment, and transitions. 

Miss Othmar School for Teachers is a fictional school animated by tool-like objects, installations at galleries, radio broadcasts, and meetings of different teacher communities. Timmy Simonds (Humanities & Media Studies, Fine Arts) has organized meetings at Dia Art Foundation, Recess, Montez Press Radio, and the Emily Harvey Foundation. 

For this meeting, you should bring a 3 min excerpt of a moment from your own teaching as an MP3 or other digital file format. The recording does not need to be high quality. When recording in a classroom, please notify students that you are recording. 

The session is on Friday, March 6th 12:30-3:00pm in the library.

Space is limited for this event! Please RSVP by February 25th and the CTL will reach out with additional details. 

Timmy Simonds is an artist who works in sculpture, writing, and participatory exercises. His reflections on teaching have been the focus of shows he’s curated (Airhead, P.P.O.W. 2024) and at the center of his writing (Prepositions, co-authored with Aaron Lehman, Montez Press, 2024). Other institutions and publication that have shared his work include Emily Harvey Foundation, Kai Matsumiya, Cathouse Proper, Montez Press Radio, Wave Farm, ICA London, e-flux, SARA’S, PIN-UP, Greene Naftali, Rond-Point Projects, Special Special, Burlington City Arts, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Fall River MoCA, Cleopatra’s, Spencer Brownstone, and Knockdown Center. In 2024, Simonds was awarded a NYSCA Artist Grant for Miss Othmar School for Teachers and his radio work. He teaches regularly at Pratt Institute between art and writing.

Blockhead, Miss Othmar (Emily Harvey Foundation, 2025) photo: Stephen Faught

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISS OTHMAR SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS is made possible in part by a NYSCA Artist Grant (2024) with Wave Farm Fiscal Sponsorship.

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