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Alumni Project: Ariana Mygatt, Womanly Magazine

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Art + Ed alum Ariana Mygatt is the Managing Editor of Womanly Magazine, a print and digital publication that provides accessible health information to women and non-binary people through visual and literary art. 

Cover of Womanly Magazine Issue No. 4: Black Maternal Health

Through this print and digital content, Womanly Magazine lifts up narratives that are often neglected by the typical women’s magazine. Just like us, our content is diverse. The magazine’s subjects include discrimination in the health care system, intergenerational concerns, and physical and sexual health and expression.

Articles from Womanly Magazine Issue No. 4: Black Maternal Health

Womanly Magazine is fiscally sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council. They are working to expand their reach and offer publication in more clinics, health centers, and community centers. Womanly is currently available at select locations in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Oakland including:

Planned Parenthood NYC
Bridgepoint Health
My Sister’s Place Women’s Center
Marion House

Alumni Project: Nick Kozak, Citizens of Earth

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Citizens of Earth is a social sculpture developed by Art + Education alum Nick Kozak that focuses on dialogue about immigration and ancestry stories.

Group of Students from Citizens of Earth project.

Citizens of Earth is enacted by Student Ambassadors from Manhattan Hunter Science High School who initiate conversations with the public by sharing and asking questions about immigration stories. Participants are encouraged to talk about their family histories and personal stories and then invited to create a global passport for our planet, complete with a photo and official stamp.  The first iteration of Citizens of Earth was held at FIGMENT NYC on Governor’s Island in 2015 and 2017. Most recently, it was installed at the Queens Museum at the Mobile Studio in 2017.  

Also view: Citizens of Earth: Studio in the Park, Welcome to Earth, and Communicating en Masse

Outside of the Citizens of Earth documentation center Passport processing station Students running the passport processing documentation center Closeup of passport from Citizen of Earth project

Alumni Project: Tiffany Jones, Dear America

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The Dear America Artivism Fellowship is an internship for high school students designed by Artivist, City-As-School Art Educator, and NYU Art+Education alumna Tiffany Lenoi Jones and Artist Shaun Leonardo.

Tiffany Jones presenting on Dear American: A City As and New Museum Collaboration.

The fellowship is designed to provide space for a close examination of political art practices by socially engaged artists working today including Joseph Cuillier and the Black School, Miguel Luciano, Kamu Ware, and Sol Aramendi. Each Fellow gains an understanding of the various ways in which the boundaries between art and activism are blurred when artists engage audiences in political education, awareness, and motivation. Each week Fellows tackle and explore the root causes of social injustice issues that impact New York City through research, discussions, writing, and art making.

Fellows develop and propose their own localized projects and leave with actionable steps toward achieving their artivist goals, which include but are not limited to, transforming the impact of social injustice in their communities.

The final proposals are presented during a public conference hosted by the New Museum.

Student speaking about Dear America project Student working during a Dear America session. Students working during a Dear America session. Visiting facilitator speaking to students. Four students posing with their artwork. Students working during a Dear America session.

Whitney Museum Tour, 2018

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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.

Photo from the Whitney Museum exhibition: Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018

NYU Art+Education at NAEA

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NAEA 2017 – Boston 

Close up of signs from NAEA 2016 presentation

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. 

Nick Kozak: Taken for Grant-ed

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Nick Kozak is an Artist Educator working at Manhattan Hunter Science High School. He attended the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he studied Art History and Art Education. Later, he completed a Masters in Art + Education at New York University, where he is currently part of the adjunct faculty. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, cat, and growing collection of comic books. More than often he makes food for people. Nick also makes art.

Poster for "Taken for Grant-ed" video festival of student work about U.S. Grant.

ART HISTORY – Grant Project

As part of the Art History class Kozak teaches at Manhattan Hunter Science, focused on contemporary art exhibitions and time-specific work, this year, students worked with the National Parks Service (NPS), specifically looking at the General Grant National Memorial (aka, Grant’s Tomb) located at on Riverside Drive at 122nd street.

The culminating project for this exploration of a facet of US History took the form of making corrective and comedic videos celebrating our 18th president and the post-Civil War era. The student videos live on in the National Parks Service website.

Students at a tour of General Grant National Memorial (aka, Grant’s Tomb).

Attendance is rather lacking at this NPS site compared to Ellis Island, Federal Hall, and more recently, Hamilton Grange. Additionally, Grant’s legacy as a general and president is often overrun with misconceptions and misrepresentations. Together with park rangers, 40 students trekked through history to uncover fascinating truths about Ulysses S. Grant, finding that he had helped to introduce civil rights legislation half a century before the rest of the nation ready to have that discussion.

Students on a class tour.

Students started this project not really sure how our nation’s historic sites and memorials tie into actual history. Through this unit they gained a better understanding of the roles that presidential figures play in the present and how they’re remembered, as they become the past.Photo of the editing process of the U.S. Grant project. Past projects undertaken by this class have included collaborations with Concerned New Yorkers, Art 21, and Pioneer Works to motivate socially active projects.

Alumni Panel, Spring 2016

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Alumni panel and students.

Alumni panel

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.