FUTURE IMAGEMAKERSA 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….
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.
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.
posted by Sterling C Yee
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
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.
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 Community Collaborations begins
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
in process list of participatory photography sites on photoandimaging.net/coco
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
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?
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