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Future Imagemakers 2014 Exhibition & Web Launch

photo by Jessica Jones

MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Friday, May 9, 2014, 5:30 to 7:00pm, Room 804

FUTURE IMAGEMAKERS Exhibition & Web Launch

This semester we  have been running two workshops: one on Saturdays and one on Monday and Thursdays. You won’t want to miss the work of these 21 creative young artists.

2014 Pariticipants:

Student Photographers: Hayoung Ahn, Jason Bravo, Karla Cortes, Vanessa Deng, Justyn Diaz, Vanessa Escobar, Aminat Fakunle, Elisa Freeland, Lateisha Freeman, Jasmin Garcia, Treasure Goddard, Jessica Jones, Amandeep Kaur, Krutika Khatri, Devin Liu, Britanie Montero, Sebastian Perez, Jhamir Rahsaan, Carlo Raimondo, Renee Sanders, Cimani Squires
Teachers: NYU students Megan Hilliard, Joann Lee, Karanjit Singh, and Bria Webb
Faculty Katie Kline and Lorie Novak

To see some of what has been been happening this semester check out our Tumblr.

Hope to see you March 9. Pizza and ice cream cake will be served!

We are part of the Tisch Future Artist Program. To be added to our mailing list, please email future.imagemakers@nyu.edu.

 

 

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Education Resources

Visual Literacy Strategies

Great resources about visual literacy from Aperture

Visual Literacy Defined – The Results of a Delphi Study: Can IVLA (Operationally) Define Visual Literacy
Jennifer M. Brill, Dohun Kim, Robert Maribe Branch, PHD; Journal of Visual Literacy, Spring 2007

“Chapter 3: Visual Literacy,” from MEDIA LITERACY in the K–12 Classroom
Frank W. Baker, International Society for Technology in Education
Download the PDF: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

The Visual Literacy White Paper
Dr Anne Bamford. Director of Visual Arts. Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media, Art and Design University of Technology Sydney

Visual Thinking Strategies
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a method initiated by teacher-facilitated discussions of art images and documented to have a cascading positive effect on both teachers and students. It is perhaps the simplest way in which teachers and schools can provide students with key behaviors sought by Common Core Standards: thinking skills that become habitual and transfer from lesson to lesson, oral and written language literacy, visual literacy, and collaborative interactions among peers.

Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development

What is Visual Literacy?

 

 

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APPLY FOR OUR 2014 WORKSHOPS

APPLY for our 2014 Free Digital Photography Workshops

Deadline TOMORROW November 19, 2013

Questions? email us > future.imagemakers@nyu.edu

Are you a NY area freshman, sophomore or junior in high school interested in photography and imaging?

2014 Classes will run on Monday/Thursday  from 4-6pm – February 6 to May 9 or
on Saturdays  from 10-4pm  – February 1 to May 10, 2014

Because the program involves travel to Greenwich Village, students of the Saturday program will most likely live in cities and towns within 2 hours of New York, while students of the Monday/Thursday program will most likely live within the 5 boroughs or a 30-minute commuting distance.

Read more about us and visit our student galleries from past workshops

 

 

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5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students

5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students | Edutopia

Incorporate wait/think time….

#1. What do you think?

This question interrupts us from telling too much. There is a place for direct instruction where we give students information yet we need to always strive to balance this with plenty of opportunities for students to make sense of and apply that new information using their schemata and understanding.

#2. Why do you think that?

After students share what they think, this follow-up question pushes them to provide reasoning for their thinking.

#3. How do you know this?

When this question is asked, students can make connections to their ideas and thoughts with things they’ve experienced, read, and have seen.

#4. Can you tell me more?

This question can inspire students to extend their thinking and share further evidence for their ideas.

#5. What questions do you still have?

This allows students to offer up questions they have about the information, ideas or the evidence.

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Nice to know about this blog where story came from > Edutopia

 

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Language Justice

Just learned of this collaborative team, Antena. I have met them at a bi-lingual conference where they have incorporated translation as an active and integral part of the conference. They make installations, publish books as well as offer translation.

Antena uses writing and multilingual space-building as conduits for a collective creative activist practice that reimagines the power of language. Antena works at the intersection of multiple fields of artistic and political experimentation: writing, literary social practice, interpretation, translation, language justice, performance, installation, book-making, public interventions and radical pedagogy. Each provides us with a context, a vocabulary and a set of principles. We conceptualize our artistic work as social sculpture, a revisioning of the dominant monolingual U.S. way of doing literature, community-building and street-level performance.Some of our core working principles:Language justice is social justice.

Everyone has the basic human right to speak in the language(s) in which they feel most comfortable at a given time. The purpose of creating a dynamic and functional multilingual space is to make it possible for people to express themselves in whichever language they wish, and to be heard and understood by others in the room, regardless of whether they speak the same language.

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A blade of grass – Fellowship Guidelines

 

FELLOWSHIP FOR SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART
from A Blade of Grass – Guidelines

A Blade of Grass, a new funding organization that nurtures socially engaged art, is pleased to announce the launch of the ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art. Seven Fellows will be selected to receive an unrestricted stipend of 20,000 USD to realize an innovative community-based project. The program will also offer tailored professional support to socially engaged artists including documentation and assessment of each project, and workshops that teach skills that are particularly relevant to artists working directly with communities to enact social change. 

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Arts in a Changing America

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Came across this blog today exploring the social function of art
with posts by a wide range of artists and writers.

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.Our aim, niche, and focus is simply: the intersection of arts and changing demographics in the U.S. and the Americas.

We welcome submissions from emerging as well as professional “cultural reporters” who have their ear to the ground of what is happening artistically in communities, places, media, and among groups and publics not normally or regularly covered by mainstream art critics and publications.

Read  more about them

Topics page

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Media Projects Resources

JR & the Inside Out Project

The French artist known as JR works relatively anonymous. After finding a camera in the Paris Metro, he began to study street art around Europe. Before winning a Ted Prize in 2011, JR created projects in Paris, Shanghai, Spain, Los Angeles.

The most interesting and socially engaging in my opinion is the Face 2 Face project in which he posted portraits of Israeli and Palestinian on each side of the separation wall of the two states. Many said it was impossible as it was high illegal, but it managed to be completed. The aim was to show how similar these two peoples were. I feel that though the images were humorous and light, they spoke about a much deeper level of unity. These people are brothers, yet they fight and kill each other.

After many successful but difficult projects, JR applied and was awarded a Ted Prize for his project, Inside Out. JR called for “a global art project” at the Ted Conference. This new project has extended what JR himself does with posting black and white portraits in urban areas. Inside Out allows for people around the world to submit portraits of their own. These portraits are then printed by the project and sent back in order to display in a public space. Guidelines have you group together with at least 5 other people with the same statement of purpose and then Inside Out makes it happen. The project is ongoing and submissions can be made on the site here. JR has recently brought a facet of his project that involves photo booths to Times Square in NYC. Check out the New York Times article here. I find this project so inspiring because you have so many voices just waiting to be heard all around the world. Many do not have the resources to have that voice heard. Inside Out gives these people the opportunity to share their stories with us, while creating a common ground.

 

 

 

 

 

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Jublies Theatre

Jublies Theatre is an organization that stages large-scale performances that involve hundreds of community members and more than fifty artists through four-year residencies. They have created a new definition for where art happens, who gets to be part of it, what forms it takes and what stories it tells.

They adopt and play with established forms of theatre and arts production and place it in unusual settings. They equally emphasize each stage of production (before, during, and after), so that they have community members actively participating in everything from stage and costume design, rehearsals, and acting in the plays themselves. They categorize their work into three categories:

  • Jumblies Ventures, undertaking multi-year residencies and producing new works, passing through phases of research, creation, production, and legacy while forming partnerships and involving several hundred people and several dozen skilled artists and along the way;
  • Jumblies Offshoots, maintaining relationships with people and places, and supporting new leadership and sustainable community arts initiatives; and
  • Jumblies Studio, training and mentoring artists and promoting learning, research, discourse, play and experimentation.

My favorite part about Jublies Theatre is the fact that they  do so much more than just theatre. They managed to create six other organizations that are all community based art programs. One of them being the organization from my previous post Making Room.

Check out their promo video!

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Community Programs Education Resources

SPARC

SPARC, The Social and Public Art Resource Center, is located in Los Angeles and aims to produce work that reflects the lives of its community. The organization was founded in 1976 by muralist Judith F. Baca, painter Christina Schlesinger, and filmmaker Donna Deitch. SPARC focuses on women, the working poor, youth & elderly, as well as newly arrived immigrant communities. Their main purpose is to examine what we choose to memorialize through public art. All of the work produced by SPARC is always a collaboration between artists and community members which allows art to rise from the community rather than being imposed upon it.

One of their most famous projects, “The Great Wall of Los Angeles,” is a huge mural that shows inter-racial harmony. It stretches for 2,754 feet in the Tujunga Flood Control Channel of the San Fernando Valley. There are park and bike trails as well providing easy access for visitors all year round. It stands as a tribute to the working people of California who have helped to shape its history.

SPARC received support the distinguished Ford Foundation Animating Democracy: The Role of Civic Dialogue in the Arts initiative and from the Rockefeller Foundation Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation initiative to continue working on the great wall which they did until the end of the 1990s. They have now built a park alongside the Great Wall which turns it into an international educational and cultural destination.

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SPARC is an impressive organization that uses a participatory process that allows community members to create artistic and socially engaging pieces that give back to the community. They’ve made it onto the Los Angeles Times, and one of the founders, Judy Baca was invited onto Amy Poehler’s talk show this past April.