2026 Projects
CRITICISM +VALUE, Experimental Pedagogy & Contemporary Art Space #1 & #2; a collaboration with and TIMM Architecture, and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

Ernest A. Bryant III’s collaboration with the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts centers on Critical Practice 2026, a sixteen-week “open course” running from January to August 2026. This course was inspired by the Yale School of Art, graduate course taught by Marta Kuzma in 2016. In Critical Practice 2026, at TSAA, a select group of graduate and undergraduate students are introduced to contemporary discourse in the visual arts through engagement with physical works of art from Bryant’s “teaching collection,” lectures, readings, seminar discussions, and studio investigations. The course explores aesthetic theory, philosophy, Poetry and related essays — from thinkers ranging from John Berger, Walter Benjamin, Linda Nochlin, Audre Lorde, Fred Moten and others. The course, held in the ground floor classroom and studio of the Tapestry and Art Textile Museum at 19 Chardin Street, culminates in a public-facing open studio event and exhibitions of student work, student led lectures and related programming. Students completing the course receive a certificate of completion from TSAA. The exhibitions, lectures, and film screenings in the museum’s first-floor gallery, are of student work and projects, that will be open to the broader Tbilisi art community and international visitors, with the aim of creating a living, active space for students to execute low stakes public facing events, benefiting both the Academy and the city's cultural life.