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** I want someone to nominate Future Imagemakers so that we can apply for an Arts and Creativity Grant.**
Rethinking Cinco de Mayo by Sudie Hofmann from the Zinn Education Project
Cinco de Mayo has been celebrated in the United States more than in Mexico. Celebrations in the state of Puebla (100 miles east of Mexico City) are common, but are fairly uncommon in the rest of the country. Many Puebla residents are conversant about the 1862 battle and how naval forces from Great Britain, Spain, and France traveled to Mexico to negotiate various financial debts. Spain and England settled their conflicts and left quickly but France decided to fight, believing they would be the easy victors and could establish a French colony in Mexico. Mexican soldiers, greatly outnumbered and poorly armed, prevailed. The battle is a source of pride for many Mexicans but not necessarily a major national holiday. READ ON
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**Teaching A People’s History /Zinn Education Project is an incredible resource for teaching (and self-knowledge.)
Tonight in my Community Collaboration course, we had the pleasure of listening to presentations by Ife Abdus-Salam, Katie Kline, and Alice Proujansky, 3 Photography & Imaging Alumni who work in community based arts organizations and public schools. They were inspiring and informative. I did my best at live blogging:
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Ifétayo Abdus-Salam, P&I ’06, www.ifesalam.com
Ifétayo Abdus-Salam received her BFA in Photography & Imaging and a BA in Africana Studies from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, (2006), and a MAT in Teaching and Learning in Art and Design Education from The Rhode Island School of Design (2009). In addition to her career as a visual artist, Ifétayo is a visual arts instructor at Bronx Leadership Academy II in the South Bronx, where she utilizes her passion for the arts to promote youth expression and critical discourse on contemporary issues.
“silence will not save us” a belief that infuses her art work and pedagogy as a teacher.
Ife’s experience before graduate school
Then went to RISD to Masters in Art Education. Then started teaching in DOE. School was able to hire her at first as art/photography/health teacher. Started 4th year. New Visions school – [see New Visions for Public Schools] New Visions works with schools to boost student acheivement and gives extra funding. With New Vision funding, Ife has restructed art program to start digital photography program in fall but students can only take for one year at most.
Challenge to have students rethink what Art is.
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Katie Kline, P&I ’05 www.katiekline.com
Katie Kline is currently the Teen Academy Coordinator at the International Center of Photography (serving approximately 450 high school students annually: (www.icp.edu/school/teen-academy) She will be co-teaching the Tisch P&I Summer Pre-College program in 2012 and beginning the MFA program at Columbia University.
Before working at ICP, Katie was an assistant teacher at
Think about community and the importarnce of maintaining networks every step along the way.
Since graduating from the Department of Photography and Imaging in 2002, Alice Proujansky has taught photography to under-served youth with Urban Arts Partnership, the Red Hook Community Justice Center, and the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services in Crown Heights, Red Hook, Harlem, East New York, the Lower East Side, Washington Heights and beyond. She is currently a Staff Development Consultant at Urban Arts Partnership, where she runs professional development workshops, develops arts integration curricula, and coaches Teaching Artists. Her focus is on providing relevant teaching resources so artists can teach the artistic process, academic rigor, and engaged citizenship.
CASES – alternative sentencing program for incarcerated youth
Urban Arts– offers programs in underserved schools – teaches integration of arts and citizenship – teaching academic subjects through the arts.
Likes the challenge of teaching within structure of the school and with the arts, reach students that have trouble with traditional teaching and reading/writing.
After she herself burned out, she recognized the need for teachers to take care of themselves so she invented the staff developer position to train teaching artists.
Responspive Classroom – alternative education research – using effective teacher language – great resource
Association of Teaching Artists – join their list serv
*many links on their resources pages
Teaching Artist job fair coming up. Will let us know along with professional developmental workshop info,
3 More resources from tonight
Kennedy Center for the Arts Arts Edge
Student Voices database on international democracy issues.When tragedies happen killing of Trayvon Martin, one way to deal with the pain is to use it as a teachable moment. Here are some resources I have collected that tackle difficult issues head on or present alternative narratives. I am always looking for more.
Civic Voices: An International Democracy Memory Bank Project
Be sure to see Student Voices database on international democracy issues.
Teaching about Trayvon Martin (see previous post)
Be sure to take a look at the KLW chart
Question Bridge Educator Portal
Spark a Movement a girl-fueled activist movement to demand an end to the sexualization of women and girls in media.
LAMPlatoon is a program which allows you to put that offending commercial on notice by exposing the underlying stereotypes and talking back to the insulting messages. Putting Ads on Notice.
[Learn About Multimedia Project]
They have a great how to guide
Speaking of great how to guides:
The Yes Lab Knowledgebase with a few pointers on how to carry out projects
Thousand Kites A national dialogue project addressing the criminal justice system.
Calls from Home is a radio show project of A Thousand Kites that brings the voices of families to the airwaves as they send greetings directly to their incarcerated loved ones.
Positive Exposures on genetic differences
RELATED LINKS
Social Art Practices Blog
Imaging America Blog
Laundromat Project
StoryCorps DIY interview instructions
PBS Educators
Art of Regional Change
Shoulders of the Ancestors: “When an incident as controversial as the shooting of Trayvon Martin grips the nation the classroom can be an excellent forum for a civil examination and civil discussions of the incident. Teaching about current controversial topics like the Trayvon Martin case engages young people and helps them better understand foundational elements of our democracy such as “rule of law” and “due process”. Indeed engaging young people in such teachable moments is the reason many of us became educators.
The resources below are useful for educators, parents, and individuals who desire to be better informed about the issues surrounding the Trayvon Martin case.” more
* A good time to visit Question Bridge project, transmedia art project that seeks to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. Through video mediated question and answer exchange, diverse members of this “demographic” bridge economic, political, geographic, and generational divisions.
Workshop Exercises contributed by Tisch Students to the Office of Community Connections
Exercise chapter in Urban Ensemble booklet – pp 37-68 Dowload PDF
Venice Arts is a treasure trove of resources, activities and more.
Click on Library tab and then see pull down menu.
Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998)
Literacy Through Photography Blog
Urban Arts Partnership has a rich website – worth exploring entire site
For specific curriculum ideas, look at Photography posts on the blog
For inspiration, take at a look at Storymapping Projects, an interesting interface for presenting stories
World Savvy
World Savvy is a global education nonprofit serving youth and educators through three core programs in three offices nationwide. Our mission is to educate and engage youth in community and world affairs, to prepare them to learn, work and live as responsible global citizens in the 21st century.
Read about their Media and Arts Programs
World Savvy New York City
May 18-31, 2009
Global Youth Media and Arts Festival at NYU’s Commons Gallery. All participating youth will showcase their creative projects at a professional gallery exhibition and performance. Private reception on May 28, 6-8:00pm. Opening celebration on May 29, 6-8:00pm!
IN S.F.: WORLD SAVVY MEDIA & ARTS FESTIVAL
Global education nonprofit World Savvy hosted a May Global Youth Media & Arts Program Festival in San Francisco, Calif., with 500 students from 20 Bay Area public schools. worldsavvy.org/san-francisco/
**I found out about these programs from Art in the Public Interest API News.
I suggest subscribing to their email list. **
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.
