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
Author: Lorie Novak
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Photo galleries I like
I found a couple of galleries that I thought had an interesting layout.
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.
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.
— Cecelia Zuniga
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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!
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
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.
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.
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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).
OVP – the Organization for Visual Progression
— Brett Mayfield
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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.
— Brett Mayfield
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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.
Red Hook Community Justice Center
Added Value (Red Hook Farm)
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
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Interesting Article
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
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