P&I Community Collaborations

Youth Photographers from the Flathead Reservation in MT

2012-01-29T16:50:00.000-08:00

Char-Koosta News - Official Newspaper of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes - Seeing the community with different eyes: "Seeing the community with different eyes
By Lailani Upham

Photo taken by former TERS student, Tasheena Bigcrane.

PABLO — Middle school and high school students on the Flathead Reservation have been enthusiastic participants at Two Eagle River School for the past ten years in a personal vision and experience through a photography project called, "Our Community Record."

Last Friday, Salish Kootenai College professor, Two Eagle River School instructor and photographer in residence David J. Spear, shared the work students have been involved in the Flathead community," read more

* David J. Spear was one of the former NYU professors teaching Community Collaborations.

Question Bridge

2012-01-26T08:04:00.000-08:00

January 13–June 3, 2012

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART

Question Bridge: Black Males is an innovative video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 12 American cities and towns, including New York, Chicago, Oakland, Birmingham, and New Orleans. From these interviews they created 1,500 video exchanges in which the subjects, representing a range of geographic, generational, economic, and educational strata, serve as both interviewers and interviewees. Their words were woven together to simulate a stream-of-consciousness dialogue, through which important themes and issues emerge, including family, love, interracial relationships, community, education, violence, and the past, present, and future of Black men in American society.

The video below gives an overview of the entire project

The Question Bridge Team has developed an incredible curriculum for educators. Register for the Educator Forum as a teaching artist. Their vimeo channel presents many curriculum modules. This is an extremely rich resource.

Online Sources for Curriculum Ideas

2012-01-22T22:00:00.000-08:00

Workshop Exercises contributed by Tisch Students to the Office of Community Connections

Exercise chapter in Urban Ensemble booklet - pp 37-68 Dowload PDF

Venice Arts is a treasure trove of resources, activities and more.
Click on Library tab and then see pull down menu.

Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998)

Literacy Through Photography Blog

Urban Arts Partnership has a rich website - worth exploring entire site
For specific curriculum ideas, look at Photography posts on the blog

For inspiration, take at a look at Storymapping Projects, an interesting interface for presenting stories

On Reading

2012-01-21T07:44:00.000-08:00

Dear Governor: Lobby to Save a Love of Reading – SchoolBook:

Interesting article from NY Times School Book section about standardized testing and thinking about how to develop a love of reading.

and it looks like SchoolBook on nytimes.com is worth more exploration

2012-01-20T09:54:00.001-08:00

REGISTER NOW!

ART IS NOT APART: Experiments, Reflections and Manifestos

A three-day symposium for artists, educators, curators and community workers who seek to reclaim the arts as an integral part of community life.

January 26th - January 28th

Collaboratively designed and hosted by two of New York’s oldest yet most innovative community-based organizations - University Settlement and Henry Street Settlement.

APPLICATION FOR NYC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS NOW ONLINE

2011-12-20T05:43:00.000-08:00

Are you a New York City High School student who wants to study digital photography at NYU Tisch School of the Arts?

We are looking for enthusiastic and committed participants.
No previous photography experience required.
This program is free.

DEADLINE: January 17, 2012.

For more info and and an application, CLICK HERE

Community Collaborations Panel > NOVEMBER 7, 2011 @ 6:30pm

2011-10-31T17:17:00.000-07:00

All are welcome

Community Collaborations: A Panel Discussion
Monday, November 7, 2011,
6:30-8:30pm, Room 844
Department of Photography & Imaging
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
721 Broadway, at Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003
212-998-1930
Join us for a panel discussion about art in an expanded field
featuring alumni panelists. Moderated by Lorie Novak, Professor of
Photography & Imaging and Co-Director of the
Department’s COmmunity COllaborations program

Petruska Bazin (’04) is Program Manager of The Laundromat Project,
Lauren Fabrizio (’05) is a licensed Art Therapist, Katie Kline (’05)
is the Teen Academy Coordinator at the International Center of
Photography, and Alice Proujansky (’02) is a teaching artist and Staff
Development Consultant at Urban Arts Partnership. The panelists will
give presentations about their work on their various projects as well
as their own art practices followed by a discussion.

The panel is presented is conjunction with Photography & Imaging’s
COmmunity COllaborations program, www.photoandimaging.net/coco/

COmmunity COllaborations: New York City Teens Speak Out (CoCo) is a workshop
program offered every spring semester in Tisch Photography & Imaging.
Teaching in teams, NYU students facilitate digital photography
workshops with NYC high school students using the department labs. The
program will expand in 2012 to offer free workshops to high school
students in any NYC school. For more information, please email
tisch.photo.coco@nyu.edu.

CoCo was founded by Lorie Novak and co-directed by Novak and Erika deVries.

ICP Teen Academy

2011-10-31T17:09:00.000-07:00

Great Program

Great Blog

ICP Teen Academy Coordinator is CoCo and P&I Alumna Katie Kline!!

Question Bridge

2011-10-26T22:50:00.001-07:00

Question Bridge: Black Males is a transmedia art project that seeks to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. Through video mediated question and answer exchange, diverse members of this "demographic" bridge economic, political, geographic, and generational divisions.
questionbridge.com

Question Bridge: Black Males - Project Trailer from Question Bridge on Vimeo.

Fotokids in Guatamela

2011-10-26T22:25:00.000-07:00

A great article with photos about the Fotokids program in Guatamala on the NYT lens blog.

Nancy McGirr has spent two decades in Guatemala finding value amid castoffs. The symbolism did not escape her when she started teaching photography to a handful of children whose families eked out a living scavenging through the festering, grimy heaps of the capital’s municipal dump.

FUZE

2011-07-23T05:39:00.000-07:00

FUZE is devoted to supporting artists, thinkers, and activists. We believe art has the power to inspire and challenge us, foster productive dialogue and reflection, and suggest innovative methods for social and political transformation. FUZE serves as a catalyst for socially conscious and creative people in pursuit of informed and innovative dialogue. More

Lead Uganda

2011-02-24T04:21:00.000-08:00

L.E.A.D. Uganda: "L.E.A.D Uganda is an educational leadership initiative for abandoned children affected by AIDS, war, and poverty. We locate the brightest children living on the edges of society—AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, child laborers. We enroll them in the best schools, help them climb to the top of their class, and propel them to university. Our children are transformed into leaders: teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs. Instead of remaining victims, they will be able to lead Africa into the 21st Century."

"The goal of this magazine is to give you a chance to learn about Uganda through stories, poems, and opinions written by the students of L.E.A.D Uganda. This issue contains articles about life, art, culture, sports, fashion, and politics in Uganda. The right side of each page contains artwork by L.E.A.D Uganda students"

Artwork and poems by the youth participants are posted throughout this rich site.

Video in the [Amazonian] Villages

2011-02-23T05:42:00.000-08:00

This is the video exchange in which children from the Amazon make video letters to children in other parts of the world to introduce and show their culture. The videos are made by the children for the children, and the documentary about the project was directed by Kumare Txicao, with video work by Nas Aldeias.

Part of a video letter from the Ikpeng children, introducing their community.

Click here to learn more about/purchase the documentary.

This is part of the larger Video in the Villages project.

Thanks to Laura Buhler of my Art Practice Course for this post.

Great News from The Laundromat Project

2011-02-23T03:43:00.000-08:00

The Laundromat Project - THE LP RECEIVES $125,000 TO SUPPORT ARTISTS INVESTED IN SOCIAL PRACTICE

With generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation ($75,000) and the Lambent Foundation ($50,000) The LP will increase the number of artists we can invite to participate in our annualCreate Change program. Every year The LP invites artists of color to mount site-specific projects at their local laundromats as a Create Change Public Artist in Residence. In 2011 The LP will accept more artists into the program, increase their production budget and stipend, and add a commissioning opportunity for program alumni. Additionally Create Change will expand to includeprofessional development opportunities for artists from all backgrounds and stages of their career interested in developing or deepening a public art practice. And last but not least, we are coming to a city near you…The LP is in the planning stages of bringing Create Change to two pilot communities outside of NYC. Want us to come to your local Laundromat? We are open to new partnerships, so please be in touch by emailing info@laundromatproject.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

2011-01-27T06:15:00.000-08:00

Interesting ideas from the Art 21 Blog

Education: Teaching with Contemporary Art

Barter and Exchange

2010-10-10T06:40:00.000-07:00

OurGoods is a community of artists, designers, and cultural producers who want to barter skills, spaces, and objects. OurGoods helps independent projects get done.

OurGoods blog
Trade School is an OurGoods project where students barter with teachers for instruction in classes such as web design, butter making, composting, and ghost hunting

Imagining America Conference Links

2010-09-24T16:03:00.000-07:00

**New Programs I have learned about while at the Imagining America conference, Convergence Zones: Public Cultures and Translocal Practices, in Seattle, WA

The Public Square (Chicago) By building bridges between theory and practice, The Public Square encourages the use of ideas as tools to improve people’s lives. These programs promote participatory democracy and create space for public conversations. Knowledge is power, yet much crucial knowledge still circulates only in small, isolated communities.

RW121 Emerson Medellín - a bi-lingual, bi-national project among 100 students working across 5 First-Year Research Writing classes at Emerson College and MIT in Boston and 5 library parks (Parques Bibliotecas) and the Universidad Nacional in Medellín, Colombia.

Make Art / Stop AIDS
part of Art and Global HealthCenter at UCLA
(nod to Douglas Crimp- In 1987 edited a special AIDS-issue of October, entitled AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism. In his introduction to the edition Crimp argued for "cultural practices actively participating in the struggle against AIDS and its cultural consequences.")

Through Positive Eyes throughpositiveeyes.org
Through Positive Eyes tells the story of HIV/AIDS at the end of the third decade of the epidemic, when potent antiretroviral medication has been devised, but when treatment access is far from universal. (Los Angeles, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro)t

The Art of Regional Change (UC DAVIS) brings together scholars, students, artists, and community groups to collaborate on media arts projects that strengthen communities, generate engaged scholarship and inform regional decision-making

Marga, Inc - A Firm, Founded by David Maurrasse, Committed to Developing Communication between Communities and Institutes
— Anchor Institutions Task Force - network to promote the role of anchor institutions in community engagement

Children's Urban Geographies (Univ. of Buffalo)

Notes on Community Engagement

2010-09-23T17:23:00.000-07:00

Fragments of NOTES/THOUGHTS from the Imagining America conference, Convergence Zones: Public Cultures and Translocal Practices, Seattle, WA, 9.23-9.25.10

You can be global while being local.

Nancy Cantor, Chancellor - Scholarship in Action @ Syracuse U
institutional responsibility and engagement
promoting scholarship and community simultaneously
Say YES to education program providing tuition to Syracuse city high school students

Caryn McTighe Musil - American Association of Colleges and Universities
Our {universities and colleges) welfare tied to community's welfare
Civic learning spiral - braided elements with public action
only 1% of community-based work is political according to the AAC studies.

If you have to come to help me....

2010-09-23T16:35:00.000-07:00

"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."

Lila Watson, part of an Australian Aboriginal Group, is given credit for this quote, but when interviewed she “was quite clear… that she was not comfortable being credited for something that had been born of a collective process” northlandposter.com
(reference came from this blog)

The Public School New York & Triple Canopy

2010-05-09T10:38:00.000-07:00

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK is a school with no curriculum. It's GLOBAL
At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
LOCAL
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL project was initiated in New York by common room and Telic Arts Exchange as The Public School (for Architecture) and operated with support from the Van Alen Institute between September and December 2009.

TRIPLE CANOPY works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. more

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK and TRIPLE CANOPY are based at 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Light Industry (a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn) also shares the storefront at 177 Livingston. map

Teaching for the First Time

2010-05-02T11:59:00.000-07:00

"I found that even with an exciting subject to teach (photography), it is not a simple thing to engage students, and that there has to be a well developed plan to hook them in on the first class."

Have Them Sit Down: The Civilians' Method

2010-04-28T07:14:00.000-07:00

The Civilians were founded in 2001. Our work often combines aspects of journalism with a creative process. We like to engage directly with the real world through interviews, community residencies and other experiences in order to create new theater from creative inquiries into the most vital questions of the present. read more of NPR story

Visual Citizenship

2010-04-09T13:31:00.000-07:00

Community Collaborations' books and website will be included in an exhibition on Visual Citizenship that is part of the 2 day conference Visual Citizenship: Belonging through the Lens of Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at Institute of Public Knowledge, April 23-24. Other Photography and Imaging Alumni and Faculty will part of the exhibition and conference.

Born into Brothels

2010-02-07T12:54:00.000-08:00

from the BBC: Born into a brothel in the Indian city of Calcutta, Avijit Halder's life has undergone a dramatic transformation.

The 20-year-old is currently pursuing a degree at one of the top film schools in the US. It all started with the filming of an Oscar-winning documentary, Born into Brothels, which dealt with the lives of the children of Indian sex workers.
Avijit Halder was one of eight children of sex workers who featured in the 2004 documentary film, co-directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. read rest of article

Kids with Cameras foundation

HRW YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2009-11-16T09:55:00.000-08:00

I posted this on the CoCo website, but I thought I'd put it here as well. If anyone is working with youth filmmakers, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has put out their Call for Submissions for 2010. Check out the website for the submission form, and the deadline is December 10, 2009.

Please spread the word!

Housing is a Human Right NYC multimedia project

2009-10-26T06:41:00.001-07:00

Housing is a Human Right Teaser from Housing is a Human Right on Vimeo.

housingisahumanright.org

Housing is a Human Right is a multi-media documentary portrait of the struggle for Home in New York City. The project collects and shares first person stories of Home, community and ongoing efforts to maintain or obtain housing, celebrating our desire for a place to call Home. The stories act as a reminder that home is as tenuous a space in New York City as the shelter that sustains it.

Watch Housing is a Human Right Videos

Waterfire Providence

2009-09-21T05:58:00.000-07:00

Waterfire Providence , a sculpture by Barnaby Evans installed on the three rivers of downtown Providence. WaterFire’s one hundred sparkling bonfires, the fragrant scent of aromatic wood smoke, the flickering firelight on the arched bridges, the silhouettes of the firetenders passing by the flames, the torch-lit vessels traveling down the river, and the enchanting music from around the world engage all the senses and emotions of those who stroll the paths of Waterplace Park. WaterFire has captured the imagination of over ten million visitors, bringing life to downtown, and revitalizing Rhode Island’s capital city.

Youth Film Program Suggestions

2009-09-14T10:23:00.000-07:00

The Human Rights Watch film festival is looking for youth filmmaking programs to collaborate with this year. If you know of any organizations that are working on a film project, let me know!

Hope you're all having a good school year.

2009-08-03T05:46:00.000-07:00

Chrissie Orr's Santa Fe Project on Migration, Rights

El Otro Lado is an unusual collaborative public art project by Chrissie Orr about migration, human rights, boundaries and a sense of home, underway in Santa Fe, N.M.T he intergenerational cross cultural participants are actively involved in developing symbolic maps/cartograms, visual representations and audio recordings of their stories, their journeys, their landmarks, their boundaries and their sense of place and home.   An intensive series of workshops are underway with youth at Tierra Encantado Charter School, with additional workshops for families, women, children and individual community members. The workshops are specifically designed to provide a safe space for all to be able to share and express delicate stories and topics in relation to migration, journey and human rights. Community-based organizations, art institutions, educational entities and positive community mentors supported the design of the workshops. El Otro Lado provides the opportunity for a community-wide activation of the perennial and profound inquiry into, “Who am I?”

El Otro Lado BLOG

Community Artists on the Job

2009-08-03T05:38:00.000-07:00

The Long, Hot Summer of Service: Community Artists on The Job

By Arlene Goldbard

And the word for this summer is … service! New national service initiatives are making headlines, generating new hopes for community arts jobs. Read on to learn what’s happening right now and to explore what could happen in the lead-up to 2010, the 75th anniversary of “Federal One,” the constellation of federal arts programs that employed an estimated 40,000 writers, performers, visual artists and others from 1935-39. read on

this is from the CAN website

also take a look at
Social Imagination: Documenting Engagement in Canada: nine mid-career artists from across Canada to examine the practice of community-based arts and the potential of digital video as a means to document the aesthetics of engagement inherent in their work.

NYC Grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center

2009-07-31T17:45:00.000-07:00

Boroughwide Grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC)

Creative Curricula
Creative Curricula is a local arts-in-education funding program, supported by NYSCA’s Local Capacity Building Initiative. The program makes matching grants to Manhattan schools working with cultural organizations or individual teaching artists. Creative Curricula supports projects that integrate arts and non-arts subjects in Pre-K through High School classrooms. [Deadline for 2009-10 has passed]

The Fund for Creative Communities DEADLINE 9-22-09
Supported by NYSCA’s Decentralization Program for Manhattan, The Fund for Creative Communities (The Fund) is designed to augment the financial resources of small to midsize nonprofit, community-based organizations that provide local, high-quality arts programs. Grants of up to $5,000 are awarded to organizations for arts projects with a significant public component and a direct impact on one of Manhattan’s diverse communities.

Manhattan Community Arts Fund DEADLINE 9-22-09
DCA and the office of the Manhattan Borough President provide the funding for the Manhattan Community Arts Fund (MCAF) grant, which supports local arts organizations and artists that have little access to other government funding sources. Both individual artists and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. The goal of this program is to prepare applicants to apply for and obtain public funds while enabling grant recipients to eventually leverage financial support from other sectors.

I recommend joining the list for LMCC email newsletter

Mouse Squad

2009-07-20T17:45:00.000-07:00

MOUSE is an innovative youth development organization that prepares students with essential technology and 21st century skills, empowering them to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Mouse Squad
MOUSE Squad is a school- or community organization-based, student run technical help desk. Students who work on the MOUSE Squad are called technicians and they are responsible for fixing, taking care of, and supporting all of the computer-related needs in their schools. As a MOUSE Squad technician, you are given a whole lot of responsibility and, in return, you are asked to act professionally as you troubleshoot computer problems, clean and maintain technical equipment, and support the teachers in their regular computer use. more

MOUSE Squad is a cost-effective solution to the problem of inadequate levels of on-site support in schools and the need to serve the 21st century educational and professional needs of students. Rather than looking outside the school community to create the basic level of computer troubleshooting and maintenance support needed to assist teachers in their work to integrate technology into teaching and learning, MOUSE Squad draws upon the motivation, skills, and abilities of any school’s greatest resources – its students.

MOUSE Squad provides middle, and high school students with opportunities to develop 21st century skills and apply them as they solve technical problems faced by their schools. The program, modeled on the type of help desks that have become standard in business and industry, prepares and supports participants in the creation and operation of a student-run, school-based, data-driven, technical support help desk.

HRW International Film Festival presented...

2009-07-17T11:52:00.001-07:00

Sorry I didn't post this earlier! The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in association with Adobe, screened work produced by youth around the world (mostly NYC students though). Topics ranged from youth homelessness to water as a human right. Some of the work was really stunning, and I couldn't believe how sophisticated some of the films were. This is the Adobe website, and they seem to sponsor other programs as well. The HRWIFF link seems to be broken, but here's the link to the films that played in New York. (The YPC link is at the bottom.)

Hope your summers are all going well!

Girl empowerment programs

2009-07-08T14:03:00.001-07:00

Girls Write Now NYC based program. Writer mentors with girls, college essay writing workshops, and more.

Girls Inc. - global

viBe Theater Experience (viBe) is a non-profit performing arts/ education organization that empowers teenage girls through the creation and production of original performances. more
Read an article by director Dana Edell at CAN: Ripples of the Fourth Wave: New York's viBePoetry

Indigenous Media

2009-07-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV
article by Faye Ginsburg on inmediares

Isuma TV, a free internet video portal for global indigenous media, available to local audiences and worldwide viewers.

On May 29, 2009, Isuma will launch NITV on Isuma TV, a digital distribution project, bringing a hi-speed version of IsumaTV into remote Nunavut communities where the bandwidth is inadequate to even view YouTube. NITV allows films to be re-broadcast through local cable or low-power channels, or downloaded to digital projectors. [read more]

Fall 09 Internship at Guggenheim Learning Through Art

2009-06-12T14:32:00.000-07:00

Artist’s Assistant Internship Openings

Learning Through Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Learning Through Art (LTA), a program of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, is a curriculum-based arts education program serving public elementary school students throughout New York City. The museum pairs teaching artists with classroom teachers to design twenty-week art projects that allow students to learn art skills and techniques and explore ideas and themes related to the school curriculum. The program immerses students in the process of making art and encourages curiosity and critical thinking. Viewing and discussing works of art in the classroom as well as at the museum in an important component of LTA.

Artist’s Assistants are apprentices who assist teaching artists one day each week in a New York City public school for the duration of an LTA residency (twenty weeks). We are currently seeking Artist’s Assistants for all residencies for the 2009-2010 school year.

During the residency, responsibilities include:

* Working with Teaching Artist to conduct curriculum-based art workshops one day a week for twenty weeks

* Helping to maintain an organized classroom, including monitoring art supplies, and setting up and cleaning up the work space

* Working with students one-on-one and in small groups

* Assisting Teaching Artist with image and content research

* Assisting Teaching Artist with hanging of in-school exhibitions and other displays of student artwork

* Staffing LTA events as necessary, including Family Days at the Guggenheim

LTA makes every attempt to ensure that these internships provide Artist’s Assistants with teaching experience, related professional development, and an opportunity to observe and discuss NYC public school culture and policies. To this effect, Artist’s Assistants may also participate in the following professional development programs:

* Artist’s Assistant Meetings

* Training in how to give tours to elementary students in the Guggenheim Museum

* Workshops and lectures

This is a volunteer position. In exchange for their work, the museum can arrange for students to receive college or internship credit, as allowed by the school. Other perks include free admission to museums across the country and discounts at the Guggenheim café and gift shop.

For more information visit: www.learningthroughart.org

TO APPLY:

Twenty week residencies will start in October 2009. Please apply by August 1 for Fall 2009 positions.Submit resume and cover letter by e-mail to:

Miriam Leviton

Education Assistant, Learning Through Art

mleviton@guggenheim.org

NYTimes: A High Schooler Views Her Community

2009-06-01T17:34:00.000-07:00

Lens: Showcase: A High Schooler Views Her Community
Deondra Scott, 18, photographs her neighbors in Montgomery, Ala.

- i like how the titles/captions are in the voices of her subjects

Soliya - global network between the "West" & "Arab/Muslim World"

2009-05-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

Soliya is developing a global network of young adults and empowering them to bridge the divide between the "West" and the "Arab & Muslim World."

Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping peoples’ viewpoints on political issues, Soliya provides students with the opportunity, skills, and tools to shape and articulate their own viewpoints on some of the most pressing global issues facing their generation. more

watch this for an overview

Creativity in Schools

2009-05-24T14:16:00.001-07:00

A humorous and thoughtful talk about how creativity is cultivated or suppressed in our current education system. Good to listen to if you're doing mindless internship work, like stuffing envelopes.

2009 WEBSITE LAUNCH

2009-05-13T11:42:00.000-07:00

www.photoandimaging.net/coco

Augusto Boal

2009-05-09T05:31:00.000-07:00

International Theater of the Opressed Organization
Augusto Boal, Founder of the The ater of the Oppressed, Dies at 78

Story and Interview from Democracy NOW : Augusto Boal, the legendary Brazilian political playwright and popular educator, died Saturday at the age of seventy-eight. He was the founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, a popular international movement for a participatory form of theater as a means of promoting knowledge, democratic forms of interaction, and transformation. We play a never-before-aired interview on his life and work. [includes rush transcript]May 03, 2009

Augusto Boal Passes

CAN website
Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the "Theater of the Oppressed," died Saturday, May 2, 2009. He was 78. Boal died of respiratory failure following a long battle with leukemia, says an AP story (5/3/09). Boal, who studied theater arts at New York City's Columbia University, created Theater of the Oppressed in the early 1960s as a way to establish a dialogue between audience, playwright, director and actors that encouraged political activism. Seen as a threat to the dictatorship that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985, Boal was arrested, jailed and tortured before being exiled to Argentina. He returned to Brazil after the fall of the military regime. His impact on the field of community-based art is incalculable. [LINK]

Finally, the NYTimes Obit on Boal

2009 Web Launch & Party

2009-05-02T19:23:00.000-07:00

Critical Exposure

2009-04-30T09:39:00.000-07:00

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

World Savvy

2009-04-30T04:46:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-28T05:12:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-26T19:46:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-23T15:54:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-23T15:43:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-23T07:01:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-22T12:11:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-19T19:50:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-04-19T16:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-15T15:23:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-15T12:01:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-15T09:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-15T05:30:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-13T17:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-13T13:25:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-13T11:26:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-13T09:48:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-13T08:51:00.001-07:00

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

2009-04-08T05:45:00.000-07:00

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)

Alice Proujansky's tips

2009-03-30T05:35:00.001-07:00

Alice Proujansky website

Resources - Teen Programs and Activist Photography

Urban Arts Partnership - work in 50 underserved schools in NYC
after school and in school programs

Dreamyard - Bronx

The Leadership Program - gives you curriculum
(need to get link from Alice)

LEAP is a non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of public education through a hands-on, arts-based approach to teaching the academic curriculum. Leap empowers students to reach their full potential.

teachingartists.com

Red Hook Community Justice Center

Added Value (Red Hook Farm)

The Door

Global Action Project

Witness

idealist.org

Books to Buy
Lively Learning - Using the Arts to Teach the K-8 Curriculum by Linda Crawford
Teaching Children to Care - Classroom Management for Ethical and Academic Growth, K-8 by Ruth Sidney Charney

Misc

2009-03-30T01:10:00.000-07:00

Alice Proujansky

reading for next week's screening on Strangers with a Camera

summer course info for you students at MOMA and ICP posted on student blog

Interesting Article

2009-03-22T16:05:00.000-07:00

Here's an article written by a first time teacher that I enjoyed reading. It centers around his time spent in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. It's not photography based, but it's about his bond with his students based on Lil Wayne's music. I like his perspective on student teacher relations and how he found a common ground through music.

I Will Forever Remain Faithful by David Ramsey

Hope everyone had a great break

Show at the Whitney

2009-03-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

Hope you're all having a wonderful spring break.

First, I think Lily's mom has an installation at the Whitney? Second, this show is up, and it sounds cool. It seems to be about photography as an art from the 1930s to the 60s. Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, John Chamberlain, and Lucas Samaras are on display from their collection.

Camera Check-Out

2009-03-11T07:06:00.000-07:00

1. One teacher checks out the equipment as normal. Ask the cage to print you two copies of check out form.
2. Write the student name and have them sign next to their name on the cage form - if there is a share, have both sign.
3. Fill out our forms. (either fill out two forms for each camera or xerox) Have student(s) read and sign our forms. Put one in camera case and staple other to cage form and you keep your copy in your group's locker (ask derrick for a folder if you need one). Give student cage form in case guard asks for it.

DOWNLOAD FORM

Art at the Laundromat

2009-03-05T00:41:00.000-08:00

A great community project I came upon

The Laundromat Project
Believing that tools of self-determination lie within creative practices, The Laundromat Project uses the space of local coin-ops to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation. We aspire to be a laundromat-based art center, where our neighbors can gather to wash clothes, take art classes, and connect as human being....

Projects to Look At / Things to Read

2009-03-02T01:10:00.000-08:00

3 Projects in New Orleans
Remedee Foundation teaches and encourages youth to use media to tell their own stories, and to open and engage in dialogue that promotes activism and change.
Remedee YouTube Channel

The Neighborhood Storytelling Project follows their mission, “Our stories told by us,” by working with writers in neighborhoods around New Orleans to create books about their communities.

The Porch a community grassroots neighborhood cultural organization. "We are a cultural organization commited to the Seventh Ward area, in New Orleans. We seek to promote and sustain the cultures of the neighborhood, city, and region and to foster exchange between cultural groups. The Porch is a place where all can come to do and to share their culture, and to take care of each other and our communities." read more

and one in NYC
Urban Arts Partnership
Urban Arts Blogs
--check out their high school blogs on blog roll on right of blogs home page
great resource blog

READ for next week
Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift by Linda Frye Burnham

and also read any other assigned readings you haven't read. We will discuss next week.

Think Happy Thoughts

2009-02-27T01:07:00.000-08:00

I found this link about helping others and how it creates a positive effect on the rest of the world. Kind of obvious maybe, but still cute and makes me feel good about what we're doing.

And for anyone who saw What The Bleep Do We Know?, this is the study that part of the movie discussed and was somewhat inspired by. An interesting study and a nice way to start the weekend.

If only everyone could understand the importance of the arts....

2009-02-23T05:21:00.000-08:00

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine-that/200902/a-missing-piece-in-the-economic-stimulus-hobbling-arts-hobbles-innovation
A Missing Piece in the Economic Stimulus: Hobbling Arts Hobbles Innovation

"As the economy stumbles, the first things to get cut at the national, state, and local levels are the arts. The first thing that goes in our school curricula are the arts. Arts, common wisdom tells us, are luxuries we can do without in times of crisis. Or can we?

Let's see what happens when we start throwing out all the science and technology that the arts have made possible...."

POSTED BY Amia

Online projects of possible interest for your workshops

2009-02-16T08:07:00.000-08:00

Radio Rookieshttp://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/
Radio Rookies® is a New York Public Radio® initiative that provides teenagers with the tools and training to create radio stories about themselves, their communities and their world.
**Youth Media Resources

Learning to Love you More
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher.

some community-based NYC youth programs

2009-02-11T02:10:00.000-08:00

826NYC www.826nyc.org/
826NYC is to supporting students ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. With this in mind we provide drop-in tutoring, field trips, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.
>826nyc is an offshot of 826 Valencia created by Dave Eggers’ [author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, runs an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project. Watch Dave Eggers TED speech

Recycle A Bicycle www.recycleabicycle.org/
Recycle-a-Bicycle is an innovative, fun youth training and environmental education initiative that has taken root in New York City public schools and respected after-school youth programs.Recycle-A-Bicycle promotes everyday bicycle use, and it is a great place to learn bicycle mechanics, interact with positive, forward-thinking NYC youth.

THE POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. We work with our neighbors to celebrate the life and art of our community, an area traditionally defined solely in terms of its poverty, crime rate, poor schools, and substandard housing. We believe the area's residents, their talents and aspirations, are The Point's greatest assets. Our mission is to encourage the arts, local enterprise, responsible ecology, and self-investment in the Hunts Point community.

Spring 09 BEGINS

2009-01-26T01:58:00.000-08:00

READINGS for next week
An Introduction to Community Art and Activism by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director of Imagining America

Telling and Listening in Public: The Sustainability of Storytelling by Linda Frye Burnham, Co-Director of CAN

Community-Based Workshops from Soup to Nuts by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lorie Novak Download file

Exercise chapter in Urban Ensemble: University/Community Collaborations in the Arts by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lorie Novak download

A Participatory Photography Toolkit download

Websites for inspiration
Photovoice

Workshop Exercises contributed by Tisch Students to the Office of Community Connections

Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998)

Storymapping Projects, interesting interface for presenting stories

CAN media arts links

in process list of participatory photography sites on photoandimaging.net/coco

teaching resources

2008-04-25T01:43:00.000-07:00

Places to start looking for future teaching (list will grow)

Teaching Artist Source from NYFA
[you will have to register to use the site. I recommend joining their email list.]
*this is the best resource around and art jobs are listed!

some local programs

MOMA internships - for teaching, you would list Education as your first choice

Teachers and Writers
if you download an application under jobs, you will see it is for artists too.

Dreamyard, Bronx
link to application

Working Playground
New Design High School/Working Playground Collaboration
photography program blog directed by P&I alumna Alice Proujansky

web wanderings, blogs & email announcements

2008-04-21T03:34:00.000-07:00

things that will interest you from my weekend online:

the NYT published this web-only Ahmad Fadam dispatch about art in Iraq.

Baghdad Film School-Making Movies in Iraq
Now available online - Film clips and audio recording of Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid's presentation "Baghdad Film School: Making Movies in Iraq."
from ARTEEAST

what looks like a good panel coming up on April 29, 6:30-8pm:
Who Owns This Image? Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel
(fyi: I heard about this from Newsgrist, a great art blog edited by artist Joy Garnett. I suggest signing up for the email newsletter.)

another good one - LIVE from the NYPL:
Tuesday, May 13 at 7pm
PHILIP GOUREVITCH & ERROL MORRIS: Standard Operating Procedure
Author Philip Gourevitch and filmmaker Errol Morris, two of our keenest moral and political observers, have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved. @Celeste Bartos Forum, NYPL on 42 st and 5th ave.

Errol Morris also has a blog on the NY Times site where he writes about photography and political issues. I recommend it.

and while I'm posting - do you know about tinyurl?

READINGS

2008-04-16T00:19:00.000-07:00

read for next week:

Relationship, Reciprocity, Reclamation: The Arts at Cal State Monterey Bay
By Jan Freya

Urban Ensemble Booklet - chapter on Reflection, pp. 77 -
Revisit "Soup to Nuts," p.79-80. I will post on google docs so we can form our own for our website starting with this as our base - Please add your thoughts, editions, changes.

for your future exploration:

Art in Rebuilding Community: The Transforma Project in New Orleans
By Jan Cohen-Cruz

Creative Economy Practitioner's Toolkit: Taking Advantage of Campus and Community Resources (Part 1) and (Part 2) by Susan Monagan, Susan Christopherson and Suzanne Loker

Announcement Card Options

2008-04-15T23:48:00.000-07:00

Modern Postcard : standard 4x6 and Triple Fold

Overnight Prints

1 800 Postcards a green printing house!

Dividing Tasks for CoCo website, etc.

2008-03-28T05:43:00.000-07:00

I have set up two shared documents in google docs
> participatory photo programs - link
> coco website notes - link

I've started them so please take a look. There should be a good amount of links, text, questions, etc by next class (April 9.)

Jobs to be assigned next class:
- website coordinator - architecture of site, checking links, etc.
- webdesigner for front page - will suggest a few design possibilities for front page once we have determined our logo
- global links and templates for pages - will work with front page designer and groups to determine color scheme, etc.
- mission statement, project history
- Bio page, collect, proof, alphabetize, etc.
- text for our submission to http://onceuponaschool.org/
- put together webpage for "NYC programs for teens"
- postcard invitation design (including pdf for email circulation)
- acknowledgments, support, and misc pages
- blog?

ICP

2008-03-28T03:58:00.000-07:00

Teen Academy Scholarship Applications

826 Valencia Writing Project (thanks Melanie)

2008-03-25T15:58:00.000-07:00

Dave Eggers TED speech: listen

[Dave Eggers’ first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since then he’s written two more novels and launched an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project. In 1998 he launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened six more chapters across the United States.]

Links:
http://www.826valencia.org/
http://www.826nyc.org/
http://onceuponaschool.org/

New Project from Photo Voice

2008-03-14T00:30:00.000-07:00

Check this out:

Nothing Special
Inclusion from the outside: a photographic exhibition by Disabled Young People

This is the group from London whose handbook we have in the library. Let's discuss at next class.

I recommend signing up for the Photo Voice newletter.

crazy.

2008-03-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

Sites.

2008-03-09T16:40:00.000-07:00

Mayor Bloomberg just released the first "art in schools" report. The press release can be found here: NYCGOV

Another interesting project I found is a film project called "Reel Lives." It's a youth empowerment through film project based out of Los Angeles. Remedee: Empowerment Through Storytelling.

My Sites

2008-03-08T08:00:00.000-08:00

The sites I found are linked below... the rest of my post can be found under the photostory post as "Comments"

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Mother Jones
LoveBryan: Broken Branches Word Stories

Also, ShootNations (link below) is an annual youth photography competition and traveling exhibition. This year's image competition involves youth and climate change:

"This year’s competition will open on Thursday 1st May 2008. The theme for this year’s competition is ‘YOUNG PEOPLE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE’.

We want to see the environmental issues affecting young people all around the world. Help us build a global picture of the reality of climate change.

The competition is open to anyone aged 11 – 24 from anywhere in the world. Last year we had over 1500 entries from 85 countries around the world – help us make this year even bigger and better!"

"The aim of Shoot Nations is to engage young people of all backgrounds from around the world to question the choices that govern their own lives. Using photography as a tool, Shoot Nations will allow young people to creatively express their views using a tangible and accessible format. The Shoot Nations exhibition will tour major global cities and facilitate a series of youth workshops on Governance and photography with young people."

SHOOT NATIONS

More projects to look at

2008-03-05T01:26:00.000-08:00

Ghana Youth Photography Project

SF Camerawork First Exposures Mentoring Program

We Feel Fine

2008-03-04T18:14:00.000-08:00

We Feel Fine is an interactive map of the internet blog network based on the phrase "I feel" or "I am feeling." When a feeling is selected, other related feelings cluster around it. This interface is currently beyond our ability to utilize, but it presents visual new way of bringing diverse sources together and drawing connections between many individuals, even if in this case it is without their direct knowledge.

Thousand Kites

2008-03-04T17:21:00.000-08:00

I was looking around the Appalshop website and came across the Thousand Kites project which is collecting stories about prisons and the criminal justice system in the United States. On Monday, March 24, Nicholas Szuberla, a representative from the project is coming to speak in George Stoney's film class at the Tisch Center for Social Media. Those of you in Tisch may already know about this, but I thought it sounded quite interesting.

http://www.thousandkites.org/index.php

Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift

2008-03-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

Here is an article that I found to be really forward thinking in that it's a compilation of theory and thought from outside of traditional academia. It deals mainly with art, the artist, and the role of both in social change in the community and the larger cultural landscape. Please feel free to skip around to different subjects once you get through the introduction.

Here is the article link

Dreaming With Cameras

2008-03-04T15:45:00.000-08:00

I really think what David has done is amazing. I am inspired by an NYU graduate so close in age giving back to the community through the arts. I really like the Gallery page as an idea of how we can introduce our students on our individual web pages. I think we could all learn something from him and he may be a good speaker to come into our class.

Cai Guo-Qiang @ the Guggenheim

2008-03-04T15:22:00.000-08:00

hey everyone-
i think this would be a good show to take our students to- we were planning on going to a museum this week. this artist really extends what we can call installation art, while making really beautiful things. it's pretty powerful because his work is amazingly informed.
http://guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai_overview.html

i'm also taking my other class to ICP tomorrow- to the archive fever show- and having been to that already with a college class, i'm not confident that they will enjoy it, but i'll let everyone know about that.
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3639335/

Reality from the Barrio

2008-03-04T14:47:00.000-08:00

You all should check out this project: Reality from the Barrio, "the photography and prose of native Santa Fe youth - from censorship to survival." I think it's pretty well designed and there's a good amount of information about its history, which is all quite interesting. Its layout and clarity may certainly be helpful with regards to our own project. And the story is really enjoyable too.

There was another community outreach project that I came across almost in tandem - Al Rowwad: Palestinian Children's Theater Center, "an Independent Center for artistic, cultural, and theatre training for children in Aida Camp trying to provide a "safe" and healthy environment to help children creativity and discharge of stress in the war conditions they are forced to live in." While the site could look much better, I think it's worth viewing as an example of a more elaborate use of the web as a creative space.

PhotoStory

2008-03-03T15:06:00.000-08:00

PhotoStoryProject

Hey Guys-
Photo Story is a project that blends story telling and photography, in an attempt to 'personalize our common human experience.'
Its pretty self-explanatory, and worth checking out. Also an example of web-organization of a project somewhat similar to ours (photos, text, stories, etc).

Alfredo Jaar

2008-03-02T11:38:00.000-08:00

Hello all,

In our discussion in class last week about the complex relationship between social action and social embarrassment, I was reminded of Alfredo Jaar, an artist that discussed this extensively during his talk to one of my classes last semester. Jaar is actually an architect, but also a filmmaker and photographer (he doesn't identify with one medium). One aspect of his work is something he calls "public interventions," which are projects that are initiated by and have heavy involvement from various communities. One which he titled "Lights in the City," involved the homeless population of Montreal in raising awareness of their situation through a different form of visual representation (they did not want to be photographed, so he placed a button in each shelter that would light up a central dome in the city each time it was pressed). He also did a participatory photography project of sorts (though it is unfortunately not mentioned on his Web site) in which he gave 1,000 disposable cameras to the citizens of Caracas, Venezuela, asked them to fill the cameras and to choose their favorite photo, and displayed them in the city's new museum (this was a museum that the citizens were opposed to for various reasons, and it was a way to allow them to conquer the space and to speak out about the conditions in their community). Though not always specific to photography, his work provides some interesting examples of some of the themes we've discussed.

His Web site: http://www.alfredojaar.net

Another site containing photo galleries of pictures taken by the homeless:

http://www.homelesscamera.com/index.html

Stranger with a Camera

2008-02-27T00:02:00.000-08:00

Stranger with a Camera: An Appalshop Film
Directed by: Elizabeth Barret 2000 Running Time: 61 Minutes

Info from Appalshop with link to interview with Director Elizabeth Barrett

POV on PBSwhich broadcast the film
Companion Website

Related Reading:

"Stranger With a Camera," NEW YORKER article by Calvin Trillin [download]

Whose Agenda Is It, Anyway? Documentary Burdens, Community Benefits
By Lynn McKnight

Jessica Ingram links

2008-02-21T06:30:00.000-08:00

Jessica Ingram's website

The article from the New Yorker on landmine victims from Sierra Leone in Staten Island: "The Children of Freetown" by George Packer, The New Yorker, January 13, 2003 > dowload

Sudden Flower Productions

Rural Studio

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman

Dreaming with Cameras

2008-02-06T05:16:00.000-08:00

Dreaming with Cameras program started by alum David Negron

Story Circles

2008-02-06T01:38:00.000-08:00

Learn how to facilitate story circles as developed by Roadside Theater

A Story Circle is 5-20 people sitting in a circle, telling stories or remembrances, led by a Story Circle facilitator. While the themes of Story Circles vary according to purpose, the methodology is the same for each Circle. All Story Circles have as a common objective the development of listening and verbal expression skills, plus a greater appreciation for the cultural gifts and talents of everyday people. All Story Circles should be as much about listening as they are about telling.

Next week, I will facilitate a story circle with you all. Please download handout and read before next week.

***Check out the Neighborhood Story Project a documentary book making project in New Orleans.

Performing Communities

2008-02-06T01:20:00.000-08:00

This is a great resource and the entire book is online. Although it focuses on theater, there are many ideas that can relate to our work.