Critical Exposure

  

If you have not explored the Critical Exposure program online, I recommend it.

World Savvy

World Savvy
World Savvy is a global education nonprofit serving youth and educators through three core programs in three offices nationwide. Our mission is to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs, to prepare them to learn, work and live as responsible global citizens in the 21st century.
Read about their Media and Arts Programs

World Savvy New York City
May 18-31, 2009
Global Youth Media and Arts Festival at NYU's Commons Gallery. All participating youth will showcase their creative projects at a professional gallery exhibition and performance. Private reception on May 28, 6-8:00pm. Opening celebration on May 29, 6-8:00pm!

IN S.F.: WORLD SAVVY MEDIA & ARTS FESTIVAL
Global education nonprofit World Savvy hosted a May Global Youth Media & Arts Program Festival in San Francisco, Calif., with 500 students from 20 Bay Area public schools. worldsavvy.org/san-francisco/

**I found out about these programs from Art in the Public Interest API News.
I suggest subscribing to their email list. **

End the University as We Know It

End the University As we Know It
Interesting Op-Ed in the Monday, April 27 NY Times
by Mark C. Taylor, Professor at Columbia

Letters to the Editor in the Sunday, May 3 Times
great discussion and critique

MY community art programs

While writing part of my assessment paper about urban vs. suburban community art programs, I came across Art IS Education, which is a community arts program specifically for Alameda County (where I went to elementary school). I also found Keep Arts in Schools, which seems to be a network of and resources for community art programs across the country. I hadn't known about these before, but I think they look great.

Contrast Project with Palestinian Youth

Contrast Project: Palestinian Youth Photo Project
The Contrast Project works with youth in using digital photography and video as tools for expression and advocacy. The project started in the summer of 2006 with photography trainings with two youth groups in the Bethlehem area of the Palestinian Territories.

Literacy Through Photography @ Duke University

The Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program challenges children to explore their world as they photograph scenes from their lives and use their images as catalysts for verbal and written expression. The scenes are framed around four thematic explorations–self-portrait, community, family, and dreams. LTP promotes an expansive use of photography across different curricula and disciplines, building on the information that children naturally possess and connecting them with broader perspectives and ways of communicating. Students furthermore gain new ways of viewing themselves and their communities. LTP was launched in 1990 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, working in collaboration with the Durham Public Schools. As part of the program, LTP staff members teach a multidisciplinary undergraduate course that includes a semester-long internship in the Durham Public Schools.

Literacy Through Photography Exhibitions
(don't miss the podcasts at bottom of page)
Literacy Through Photography BLOG
Click on 'Projects' link to see more of Center for Documentary Studies Work

From ICP Community Programs Facutly Member: Ben Lenzner

A Benefit To Support The Van Gujjar Community Photo Project


SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2009 @ 7 PM
@ UnionDocs
322 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L train to Lorimer/ G to Metropolitan/ J, M, Z to Hewes
$5 suggested donation/ $15 donation u get postcard print/ $25 donation u get 8x10 print
proceeds go to cameras/supplies/materials from summer 2009 program

On Sunday, May 10, 2009 @ 7 pm in a Benefit Evening for The Van Gujjar Community Photo Project, for the first time ever, I will be sharing the work in progress that commenced last spring in the plains and up in the mountains of northern India. There, with the beautiful energy of the Van Gujjar Community of northern India, I began a wonderful project distributing cameras throughout the Van Gujjar community. Some of those cameras found themselves in the hands of photographers exploring the settlement colony of Gindikhatta and other cameras clicked and recorded lives and moments throughout the forests of the Shivalik Mountains, the first bump in the Himalayas and the winter residence for the many families who continue to live and migrate throughout the forests of northern India.

The Van Gujjars are an indigenous, forest dwelling, nomadic, buffalo herding community residing in northern India. In January 2008, the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed in the Indian Parliament. The first comprehensive indigenous rights law ever approved in India, this legislation gives indigenous groups the power to legally lay claim to their traditional homelands. Navigating to secure their forest rights, complicated by their multi-state migration and their minority status as Muslims, the Van Gujjar community is divided as to whether they should cease their migration and relocate to government built settlement colonies or pursue a claim to their ancestral homelands. Inspired by this indigenous struggle, Ben Lenzner traveled to India in the spring of 2008. Ben spent three months researching, photographing and documenting, as well as implementing a photography project with the Van Gujjar community. He distributed 60 cameras to men, women and children throughout the forests and in the Gindikhatta Settlement Colony. These new photography students explored places, people, situations and moments that were important to them. This project is critical. Please come out to support this project and learn a little more about tribal rights in India. These images share an intimate view into the diversity of Islam and the complexities of the struggles of one indigenous community. As globalization brings wealth to unknown pockets of the earth, cultures and traditions shift and disappear as rapidly as the Himalayan glaciers around them.

Please join us for an evening of photographs (exhibition, slideshow & presentation), discussion, Q & A, music, mingling & fresh air in the backyard.

for more info & to rsvp please email ben@benlenzner.com or info@uniondocs.org

more info

Potential Opportunity - Robert Mapplethorpe House

Hi CoCo Folks,
Maybe one of you would be interested in contacting the woman below. She reached out to us last week. Sorry we all missed the reception!

- Katie
________________________

I am currently a senior in the BFA photo department at SVA. I have been volunteering at the Robert Mapplethorpe House, a division of Beth Israel hospital, for the last 6 months and have started a photography program there. I have been asked to continue the program but I will be leaving the city after graduation. Joshua Shapiro suggested that I contact you to see if you had any ideas for the program or any students who might be interested. The current art therapist at the Mapplethorpe House is actually a graduate of your department.

The work of the residents will be displayed in the SVA student center and I would love if you could stop by and see it. I am attaching an invitation with all the details.

Best,

Joanna Murray

(410) 302-2798

Katie Kline's tips

Resources for teaching in NYC from our guest speaker Katie Kline

Learning through Art at Guggenheim Museum

interesting research findings

Joan Mitchell Foundation Program

ICP Community Programs

- Teen Academy (Katie's program)

Community Partnerships

- ICP at the Point in the Bronx

- Partnership with High School of Fashion Industries

- Partnership with Rikkers Academy: Friends of the Islands

download pdf of Curriculum Guide

Drawing Resource

The Drawing Center is a great art space and resource in Soho. They have two gallery spaces as well as classes for ages k-12 that may be of interest to our students. The classes are free and include materials.
Drawing Center

In considering the students website, I think that the Mirain Goodman Gallery's website has a clear way of displaying multiple artists.
Marian Goodman Gallery

Thanks!
Angelica

Kids with Cameras again?

Good evening my fellow coco-pebbles. I would love to see this type of per-student navigation be incorporated into our micro-sites. There is a lot of clutter but there is a lot of fat that can be trimmed. This is a great way to condense student bios with their images. I will be more eloquent and explicit when I see you all in the morning. Definitely explore this site because there are a lot of cool pages like this one about the hope house. And if you have not yet seen the Born into Brothels, you must.

Simon

Palestinian Children in Lebanon

I'm still searching for a website for the program, but here's an article I had found a while ago:

Lahza: Camp Life Seen Through Children's Eyes

NYU Files 2.0

GREAT NEWS - You all have access to 2 gig of storage space on the Files 2.0 via nyuhome. Log in and go to files tab. Log into files. To store a website, you have to activate your public folder !! Even better is that space is yours after you graduate. So activate today! They are going to get ride of homepages so move over any of your storage.

I highly recommend going to the HELP section, FAQs etc, to see everyone it can do. For example, once in files, click on the globe for uploading which will load a java applet which will let you drag and drop.

Photo galleries I like

I found a couple of galleries that I thought had an interesting layout.

http://www.rwandaproject.org/fr_children.html

This gallery first lists the names of the child photographers. Clicking on a child's name, takes you to their gallery page which includes their portrait and thumbnails of each image in their portfolio. If you click on the image of the child it takes you to their biography.

http://www.shootingjozi.net/marshalltown.php

Although this gallery is organized by location, we could still use it as a reference and modify it to be organized by photographer. I like the layout and how they use a background image for the thumbnails and the main image.

Check this Out

I just learned about this Rhizome project from Jennifer in my Screen Culture class - read her post

I'd like to purchase pixels for our coco site as a way to advertise our site and contribute to Rhizome, which is a great new media organization. If you are not familiar with them, you should be!

ArtWork Collaborations

Check these projects out that engage with teens, youth, and community groups

Dread Scott: Or Does It Explode?
“...Or Does it Explode?” is a collaborative artwork with Dread Scott and Philadelphia youth. The project is commissioned and coordinated by the ArtWorks! program of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. ...Or Does it Explode will be an outdoor public artwork that consists of 12 human scale full body photographic portraits of the teenagers in illuminated lightboxes. The boxes are supplemented by an audio component of the youths speaking about their hopes and dreams. [more]


Pawel Althamer and children from Kassel, Frühling
Twelve years after his participation in documenta X, Kunsthalle Fridericianum presents the new exhibition project Frühling (Spring) by Pawel Althamer (Warsaw, 1967). For Frühling the artist invited several hundred children from Kassel to occupy over 1.000 square metres of the Fridericianum, the historically charged, world-famous exhibition site, which had been a library and a parliament building in the past. Althamer's main aim is to enliven and transform the museum with the help of the children's youthful, bold, and above all "unbound creativity". The children are the project managers, the main actors, while Althamer plays the role of their guest and assistant. [more]

Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
Founded by artist Rick Lowe in 1993, Project Row Houses believes that art—and the community it creates—can be the foundation for revitalizing depressed inner-city neighborhoods [more]
Explore both the art and community sections

SPARC
Social and Public Art Resource Center, Los Angles, CA
view murals and/or public art projects
SPARC was founded by artist Judy Baca in 1976, and she continues as the artistic director

Suzanne Lacy, an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues.

Public Art as Social Intervention
Project out of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
I found site map easier way to navigiate through site

Wendy Ewald is also an interesting artist to look at in this context
LINKS: Wendy Ewald, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (only up to 1998)
Wendy Ewald, Blackbird

Columbia College community programs

Amia's post reminded me that Columbia College in Chicago has a Center for Community Arts Partnerships that was founded on a mission to link the academic departments of Columbia College Chicago with diverse communities throughout the city, CCAP brings the concepts of community-based learning, arts-integrated curricula and reciprocal partnerships into the spotlight. It unites artists, educators, students, corporations, schools and community-based organizations to form meaningful, sustainable partnerships in the arts. Please explore this site for next week.

Columbia College photo galleries

Here is a plethora of different photo gallery styles from the Columbia College website. They are broken up into groups of artists that collaborated on different book published. Just click on a specific artist and see how they set up their galleries, they are all a bit different. Obviously, I think some work better than others.

Columbia College artist index

Visual Progression

This is a Wintessesque organization that a friend of mine started recently and is working in the realm of human rights and documentation (video).

www.visualprogression.org

OVP - the Organization for Visual Progression

Picturing Hope

This is another great kids and cameras organization with a sustainable model that exists in a few countries, including Romania and Tanzania, among others. I am in the process of potentially working with them in the Romanian Clinical Center of Excellence in Bucharest.

picturinghope.org

CARD and PARTY

In researching, Overnight Prints, seems like the best deal. Any other thoughts?
We will make a 5x7 card so we can list the info and all student and teacher names on back. We will use the entire back of card for text. Any we mail out we can put in an envelope and also make a little press release.

For Monday, we will need a list of all students - please work on that. We decided to use group photos for front if I remember correctly. Let us also talk about making prints and plan for party.

volunteer for preparing the front photo?

PARTY - MAY 11, 5:30-7:00 with remarks at 6:00 room 815
(or 6-7:30 with remarks on 6:30)