A year into the Covid 19 Pandemic the Art+Education students had been working together remotely and this final project experience built from all the ways we had been experiencing the pandemic together at NYU and in New York City schools. This semester some of us were finally able to come together and learn in our NYU classroom together while others stayed remote. Despite the different ways we participated in our seminar sessions we looked at lots of socially engaged art projects, considered how interviewing and oral history could take artistic forms, did lots of library research and creative mapping together. Our group found a hybrid way to work together, but our research collectives organized themselves around those who were participating virtually and those who were in person. Eventually two groups formed to investigate different topics and engage people in learning with them.
The Pink Slip Project looked at the inequities surrounding suspensions in public schools and who are most disproportionately affected. Students created a public intervention in Washington Square Park to involve the public by collecting individual stories and sharing advocacy information to advocate for necessary change.
The Student Experience Collective focused on student knowledge and needs during a year of virtual learning in a pandemic and developed a website and creative strategies to learn how to better support students in the coming year.
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