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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

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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?

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READINGS

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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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New Project from Photo Voice

Check this out:

Nothing Special
Inclusion from the outside: a photographic exhibition by Disabled Young People

The entire PhotoVoice site contains many great projects.

I recommend signing up for the Photo Voice newletter.

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Sites.

Mayor Bloomberg just released the first “art in schools” report. The press release can be found here: NYCGOV

Another interesting project I found is a film project called “Reel Lives.” It’s a youth empowerment through film project based out of Los Angeles. Remedee: Empowerment Through Storytelling.

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My Sites

The sites I found are linked below… the rest of my post can be found under the photostory post as “Comments”

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Mother Jones
LoveBryan: Broken Branches Word Stories

Also, ShootNations (link below) is an annual youth photography competition and traveling exhibition. This year’s image competition involves youth and climate change:

“This year’s competition will open on Thursday 1st May 2008. The theme for this year’s competition is ‘YOUNG PEOPLE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE’.

We want to see the environmental issues affecting young people all around the world. Help us build a global picture of the reality of climate change.

The competition is open to anyone aged 11 – 24 from anywhere in the world. Last year we had over 1500 entries from 85 countries around the world – help us make this year even bigger and better!”

“The aim of Shoot Nations is to engage young people of all backgrounds from around the world to question the choices that govern their own lives. Using photography as a tool, Shoot Nations will allow young people to creatively express their views using a tangible and accessible format. The Shoot Nations exhibition will tour major global cities and facilitate a series of youth workshops on Governance and photography with young people.”

SHOOT NATIONS

— Melanie Glass

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More projects to look at

Ghana Youth Photography Project

SF Camerawork First Exposures Mentoring Program

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We Feel Fine

We Feel Fine is an interactive map of the internet blog network based on the phrase “I feel” or “I am feeling.” When a feeling is selected, other related feelings cluster around it. This interface is currently beyond our ability to utilize, but it presents visual new way of bringing diverse sources together and drawing connections between many individuals, even if in this case it is without their direct knowledge.

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Listening for the Lexicon of Cultural Shift

Hi everybody,

Here is an article that I found to be really forward thinking in that it’s a compilation of theory and thought from outside of traditional academia. It deals mainly with art, the artist, and the role of both in social change in the community and the larger cultural landscape. Please feel free to skip around to different subjects once you get through the introduction.

Lexicon of the Cultural Shift by Lynda Frye Burnham

Here is the article

posted by Nathan Z Lothrop

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Reality from the Barrio

You all should check out this project: Reality from the Barrio, “the photography and prose of native Santa Fe youth – from censorship to survival.” I think it’s pretty well designed and there’s a good amount of information about its history, which is all quite interesting. Its layout and clarity may certainly be helpful with regards to our own project. And the story is really enjoyable too.

There was another community outreach project that I came across almost in tandem – Al Rowwad: Palestinian Children’s Theater Center, “an Independent Center for artistic, cultural, and theatre training for children in Aida Camp trying to provide a “safe” and healthy environment to help children creativity and discharge of stress in the war conditions they are forced to live in.” While the site could look much better, I think it’s worth viewing as an example of a more elaborate use of the web as a creative space.

 

Posted by Alicia M Baird