Events
Freedoms Exhibition, 2016
Saturday Art Workshop is an 8-week program that combines the excitement of creating art with issues in social justice. Saturday mornings, from 10am-12pm, teens research significant social themes and discover a rich array of innovative, multidisciplinary approaches through which they can visually express their ideas. The themes for this year’s Workshop were “Vote This,” “Gender Lines,” “#NoJusticeNoPeace” and “(un)Plugged.”
Classes are taught by teams of graduate students completing their Certification in Art Education program at New York University. Together, students and teachers consider ways in which artists influence society, and experiment with techniques that include drawing, painting, printmaking, video, photography, 3-dimensional media, and installation. These workshops challenge students to think outside of traditional artistic media and explore how artistic boundaries and influence can be stretched to include what has historically been excluded.
The program culminates in a final exhibition inviting a wide audience of parents, friends, teachers, and NYU faculty, to see the resulting student work.
Art+Ed Mixer and TASK Event
Art+Ed Mixer & TASK Event – Fall 2016
Spring 2016 Exhibition: Praxis
Praxis describes the reciprocity between reflection and action; a space of possibility and of risk; A space where we learn by doing and act by thinking. The exhibition, Praxis represents the work of 9 artist educators who have each posed a question about the realities and complexities of contemporary education. Each seeks answers through engaging with a diverse range of methodologies including reading theory, crafting surveys, conducting interviews, pursuing conversations, and paying close attention how we learn and communicate, in both formal and informal learning environments.
Alumni Panel, Spring 2016
A panel of five alumni from the Art + Education Programs, currently working in schools, museums and the larger community, advocating for social justice, returned to the Barney building to share their work and discuss life after NYU, with current and prospective students in the program. Individual presentations were followed by a question and answer session and a broader discussion around the importance of education and the realities of the profession.
Artist Talk: Pablo Helguera, 2016
Pablo Helguera, an interdisciplinary artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance, gave an artist talk at the Art+Education Program this spring. Helguera’s work focuses on a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical and theatrical performances, and written fiction. His The School of Panamerican Unrest, a nomadic think-tank that physically crossed the continent by car from Anchorage, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, best exemplifies the intersection between his teaching and art practice. Covering almost 20,000 miles, it is considered one of the most extensive public art projects on record and a pioneering example of socially engaged art.
Artist Talk: Martha Wilson, Fall 2015
Martha Wilson, a pioneering feminist artist who over the past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae, spoke at the Einstein Auditorium at NYU, earlier this month. Wilson is also the Founding Director of Franklin Furnace whose mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. At this inspiring talk, Wilson presented 4 decades of personal work and projects from Franklin Furnace’s first 30 years.
Artist Talk: Olivia Gude, Fall 2013
In the Fall 2013 semester, the Art + Education Programs at NYU hosted a talk with artist and educator Olivia Gude, on developing a teaching practice and curriculum focused on post-modern and community engagement.
Spring 2015 Exhibition: Interrobang
Interrogation is at the heart of our practice as educators and as artists. It exists between us and our colleagues, our students, and our peers. The eighteen artists in this exhibition are connected through their dual impulses toward action and interrogation. The exhibition title, Interrobang, embodies the interconnectedness of these two impulses around which the work coalesces.
For more information, visit the Interrobang Blog
Unfolding Practice: The Accordion Book Project Workshop with Arzu Mistry and Todd Elkin, Fall 2015
Todd Elkin and Arzu Mistry began making accordion books to document, reflect, plan, and think expansively about their practice as artists and teachers. The act of making these books, and the ways of structured and unstructured thinking that drive and are driven by their making, has become deeply woven, not only into their teaching and artistic practice but into the ways that they think, feel and act in the world.
At this workshop, Todd and Arzu shared their own process, and engaged students and faculty from the Art + Education Program in creating their own accordion books.
