Events
Mirror/Echo/Tilt Workshop
Mirror/Echo/Tilt is a performance and pedagogical project created by artists Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Elyse Smith to examine the language and gestures used to describe experiences of arrest and incarceration. This collaborative project between artists, educators and individuals affected by the justice system uses magical realism as a framework. Performative vignettes are translated through the body and recorded in vacant former institutions such as empty prisons and courthouses to consider how individuals might assert agency in the reclamation of physical and psychic space. Taking the form of video, performance, text, archive and curriculum, the work envisions new language around the way we engage with mass incarceration and inserts counter narratives into the dominant media landscape, which commonly alienates and criminalizes black and brown bodies.
In this workshop, artist Shaun Leonardo with members of the Brooklyn Justice Initiative at Recess Art introduced elements of the project to Art+Ed students as a way to imagine new interactions and ways of engaging the body as a site of historical memory, trauma and possibility.
Workshop hosted by Shaun Leonardo and peer leaders from The Brooklyn Justice Initiative.
Dreamyard Artist Educator Mixer
Dreamyard, an organization that collaborates with Bronx youth, families and schools to build pathways to equity and opportunity through the arts, hosted a gathering for Social Justice Artist Educators. This event was part of a 3 part series of events hosted in the Bronx by different cultural organizations to connect the NYU community with arts-based initiatives and organizers that was funded as part of NYU/Steinhardt’s Diversity Innovation Grants. Dreamyard teaching artists hosted brainstorming and discussion sessions talking about teacher super powers and how we engage our students. Participants had a chance to partner across different organizations to learn about different approaches to social justice art education, and then had a chance to make original bags and wearable pins inspired by social justice warriors from the past and present.
Whitney Museum Tour, 2018
Field trip to Whitney Museum, November 2018
Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018 establishes connections between works of art based on instructions, spanning over fifty years of conceptual, video, and computational art. The pieces in the exhibition are all “programmed” using instructions, sets of rules, and code, but they also address the use of programming in their creation. The exhibition links two strands of artistic exploration: the first examines the program as instructions, rules, and algorithms with a focus on conceptual art practices and their emphasis on ideas as the driving force behind the art; the second strand engages with the use of instructions and algorithms to manipulate the TV program, its apparatus, and signals or image sequences. Featuring works drawn from the Whitney’s collection, Programmed looks back at predecessors of computational art and shows how the ideas addressed in those earlier works have evolved in contemporary artistic practices. At a time when our world is increasingly driven by automated systems, Programmed traces how rules and instructions in art have both responded to and been shaped by technologies, resulting in profound changes to our image culture.
NYU Art+Education at NAEA
NAEA 2017 – Boston
NYU Art+Education alumni and faculty presented several formal and informal sessions at the 2017 NAEA conference. Jungwon Park, Ariana Mygatt and Jessica Hamlin presented the panel: Art as Research: Investigating Education as Artist Educators. This session highlighted the work of pre-service teachers in the NYU Art+Education program, and shared examples of research-driven inquiry and artwork produced while working in urban public schools and community-based contexts.
Program alumni John Kaiser staged a protest sign making and borrowing station at the convention.
Professors Joe Fusaro and Jessica Hamlin presented a session: Contemporary Strategies for Creative and Critical Teaching in the 21st Century based on an article published by Art Education magazine of the same name. This session paired classroom case studies and the work of contemporary artists who model critical and creative capacities and process-driven strategies across diverse subject areas and grade levels.
And finally, NYU Art+Ed alumni and faculty helped to organize a participatory art performance by Oliver Herring along with students from several high schools in New York City. Areas for Action (AFA) is an open ended participatory performance, improvisatory sculpture, and real-time collaborative artwork. Conference participants were invited to interact with one another and the environment in the spirit of creative invention, interpretation, and play. A follow-up discussion with Oliver Herring, educators and students from a variety of contexts explored the possibilities for connecting AFA to classroom teaching and learning.
NAEA 2019 – Boston
In 2018, Program Director Dipti Desai received the Studies in Art Education Lecture Award for scholarly contribution to art education and gave a talk.
NYU Art+Education alumna, Tiffany Lenoi Jones and faculty, Jessica Hamlin presented the session, ‘Connecting the practices of socially engaged artists to student led social transformation‘ which shared examples of educator practice at high school and graduate levels that facilitate student-led artistic inquiry and social activism that were inspired by contemporary socially engaged artists.
In addition, NYU Art+Ed faculty participated in a two-part presentation. Part 1 of the presentation discussed how contemporary art and artists offer rich connections to students’ lives and explored different approaches to contemporary teaching practices. Part 2 of the session included a wide range of teachers who offered “flash” descriptions of classroom and individual teaching strategies using contemporary art and artists to engage students.
Conditions for Learning, Summer 2018
Conditions for Learning, Summer 2018
Taking inspiration from the ways that institutional chairs relegate the body to particular poses and postures for learning, the Final Projects exhibition this year focused on several interrelated themes focused on the motivations, choices, and socialized expectations for learners and teachers alike. In determining the title for this year’s exhibition, students took their cues from the physical design and function of educational architecture—specifically classroom chairs—and the ways that bodies are literally and physically constrained to perform in particular ways in schools and classrooms.
In each project, students explored the ways that leaners (and facilitators) could move beyond the constraints of specific learning experiences and environments, whether exploring the possibilities of teaching for artistic behavior (TAB), critiquing the philosophy and protocols of a no excuses charter school environment, creating a socially engaged makerspace, better understanding why high school students attend school and feel motivated to learn every day, or comparing notions of success in two different global education contexts.
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CUP Workshop
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement, hosted a workshop for Art + Education students.
New Museum Tour, 2017
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at the New Museum
Tour with alum Peter Tresnan, November 2017
Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity.
Artist Talk: Tomie Arai
Artist Talk: Tomie Arai, 2017
Artist Talk: Thi Bui
On Thursday, March 30th from 6-8PM, in Barney Room 600, Art+Education Alum, Thi Bui shared her new graphic novel, “The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir” with students and faculty in our program. Thi Bui was joined in conversation by Prof. Thuy Linh Tu. A book signing and reception followed.