Notes on Community Engagement

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.

Have Them Sit Down: The Civilians' Method

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

NYC Grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Center

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

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. **

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

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

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.

Alice Proujansky's tips

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

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

Show at the Whitney

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

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

Projects to Look At / Things to Read

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

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....

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

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

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.

teaching resources

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

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

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

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