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)