This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Alberta College of Art and Design made an important announcement on Wednesday, declaring that the teacher fired after a student’s controversial chicken slaughter art project, Gordon Ferguson, has been reinstated. The school’s head of sculpture department was fired last week after one of his students slit the throat of a chicken, let it bleed out, plucked it and then put it in a pot during the noon hour in the school’s cafeteria. Consequently the demonstration shocked and scared some at the cafeteria until Calgary police was called to the incident. However, the investigation did not lead to any charges.
Upon the announcement of dismissing college head of sculpture, the school faced a major reaction from students and faculty associations all over the country. Hence, it was announced this afternoon by the ACAD, that the school has reached an agreement with the college’s faculty association to reinstate Ferguson. In an official statement, ACAD president, Daniel Doz, stated that “all these issues that have surfaced in the last three or four weeks connected to the incident, and everything else, have raised some very important questions and issues regarding the balance between academic responsibility and artistic freedom.”
Furthermore, ACAD alleged that this is an opportunity to construct mature and clear principles of what it calls “the issues of academic responsibility and artistic freedom.” The college and the faculty association have agreed to host a symposium in the next academic year for discussing the issues stemming from the controversy.
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