The MeToo and BLM movements have transformed French art schools. But students say there is more work to be done:
Black Lives Matter protest on the Parvis des droits de l'homme, place du Trocadero, in Paris on June 21, 2020. Photo: Abdulmonam M Eassa / AFP via Getty Images.terror attacks on French landmarks, aimed at security officers. But that didn’t prepare one 22-year-old student at a prestigious art school in Paris from being perceived as a threat by his professor because of the color of his skin.
What became clear is that, rather than functioning as safe havens, art schools were often marred with instances of discrimination and sexism. Nevertheless, many of those interviewed felt that while much was still left to be done, there is a new awareness around the problem and that student-led initiatives created in the wake of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have sparked positive change.
Former director of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Jean-Marc Bustamante. Photo: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images.The problem is of course not unique to French institutions or art education—discrimination and sexism occur on campuses all over the world.
After observing a major French visual arts school, Provansal found that female students were less likely to form the informal, yet crucial, mentor-like relationships with professors, and that concerns around sexism and harassment were among their stated reasons. Women who changed classes to “escape a student-professor relationship based on seduction,” were at a “disadvantage,” Provansal told Artnet News, citing research she published in.
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