Future Imagemakers Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts‘ grows out of Community Collaborations, founded in 1996 by Lorie Novak with a NYU grant for service learning. The program’s structure allows Photography & Imaging majors and other NYU students with photography experience to get mentorship and co-teach a digital photography workshop to high school students. We became part of Tisch Future Artists in 2012.
In 2008, with a grant from the then NYU Office of Civic Engagement, the program changed from analog to digital photography and our website and blog was launched. Over the years, we have partnered with East Side Community High School, Norman Thomas High School, The Lower East Side Girls Club, School of the Future, School for the Physical City, and The Harvey Milk School. In addition to Lorie Novak, Erika deVries, David J. Spear, Katie Kline, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Jessica Bal have spearheaded the program.
In 2012 the program expanded to allow any NYC high school student to apply and we joined the Future Artists program at Tisch. Professors Lorie Novak, Jessica Bal, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Katie Kline and Tisch Photography & Imaging students and recent alumni Carlos Hernandez, Kendrick Lamar-Dial, Angela Xu, Emily Contreras Gómez, Chrissy Nelson, Momo Takahashi, Cydney Blitzer, Angelica Negron, Shina Peng, Makeda Flood, Sage Lally, Alex Trippe, Riana Gideon, Madeleine Roodberg, Elliott Brown, Claudia Mann, Maureen Dai, Nicole Motta, Megan Hilliard, Joann Lee, Karanjit Singh, Bria Webb, Lindsay He, and Ngoc-Tran Vu have co-taught the workshops.
Please explore the projects from the different years in our Student Projects Gallery.
We embrace the Internet as a creative space with our website, Instagram, Facebook Page, and Community Collaborations Resource blog,
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