<i>Sanggar</i> and Art Group: A Method for Our Art? Paper for Limited Discussion on Art Education Yogyakarta Cultural Park, August 11, 1986

To form a creative outlook, people turn to sanggar and art group because formal education institutions have let them down.From all the graduates of fine arts studios (painting, sculpture, graphics, and so on) in our higher education institutions, those who show up in the art scene are too small a part, prompting people to question the effectiveness and benefits of those academic studios' education. FROM A DISAPPOINTMENTAcademic Education is now inadequate in a most fundamental way: instilling and cultivating enough motivation in pupils to work as artists according to the specialized education that they receive.If what's desired is "a perspective with a wider reach in the art creative process"-as stated in the committee's letter to the speakers of this discussion-then we must remember two things.First, among the already established artists (painters, sculptors, graphic artists), it is those with formal education who show dynamics of thinking and styles in their developments.Second, there are many kinds of sanggars and groups.