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July 25, 2011 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Mark Gonzales + MoMA Teens!

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Artist Mark Gonzales rides his Circle Board during an In the Making teen workshop

One of the best and most influential street skaters of all time, and one of the first professional skaters to make the transition to professional artist, Mark Gonzales has long been respected as a singular talent across multiple fields. The teens in this summer’s Shred, Thrash, Carve: The Visual Language of Skateboard Culture were given the chance to meet, work, and skate with him last week when he dropped into our Education and Research Building with his amazing Circle Board.

June 27, 2011 | Family & Kids, MoMA PS1, Videos

MoMA Teens Interview Laurel Nakadate, Part 2 of 2

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

In this final installment of our two-part campfire chat, artist Laurel Nakadate cozies up and talks to the MoMA Teens about growing up in Iowa, the rights of teenagers vs. adults, what her family thinks about her art, and her personal and artistic reaction to the events of 9/11.

June 20, 2011 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids, Videos, Viewpoints

MoMA Teens Interview Laurel Nakadate,
Part 1 of 2

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

A few months ago, artist Laurel Nakadate sat down with teens from our Museum Studies program and had a campfire cookout on the floor of her exhibition Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely at MoMA PS1.

May 23, 2011 | Events & Programs

Exotic Novela: MoMA’s Community Partnership with Project Luz

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Fernand Dcute and Daniel as Joan Collins. Photo by Sol Aramendi

For the past few months, Rebecca Goyette, one of three educators running the Museum’s Community Partnership Programs, has been working with the photographers at Project Luz to combine their own practice as artists with images and themes from MoMA’s collection.

May 9, 2011 | Events & Programs

Teens Behind the Scenes: MoMA’s Museum Studies Program

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Museum Studies, Class of 2011

When you were younger, perhaps you wanted to be an artist when you grew up. Perhaps you were the kid in class who was always doodling, who designed all of the posters for the dances and parties, and who would have rather hung around the art room than go out to recess with the other kids.

April 18, 2011 | Events & Programs, Videos

Community Partner Art Show: The Video

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Last summer, the Community Partner Art Show opening celebrated the participants and the amazing organizations that we work with through our Community Partnership Program. It was a fantastic exhibition, and it was so powerful hearing the participating artists discuss the ideas, inspirations, and, yes, hesitations surrounding their involvement with the Museum and the creation of their artworks. I hope you enjoy the video above, which documents this exciting event.

April 11, 2011 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs

Living Art: MoMA Teens Collaborate with Artist Paula Hayes

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Paula Hayes and the Art and Science teens working on our living sculptures

What does it mean to own an artwork that will never look the same from one month to the next? And how does an ever-changing, living sculpture tweak our preconceptions of what it means to conserve an artwork for posterity?

April 4, 2011 | Events & Programs

Educator Journal: Stop or I’ll Shoot! Performance and Photography

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Teens displaying their photographic masks in Central Park

Through a series of adventurous performance-based actions, the teens in our “Stop Or I’ll Shoot!” workshops have formed themselves into a functioning arts collective to negotiate and investigate ideas surrounding public and private space, altered perceptions, and challenging interactions.

March 28, 2011 | Events & Programs

Educator Journal: What the #%!$@? Abstraction, Emotions, and Art

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

Teens react to their surroundings after entering Flux Factory for the first time.

In her session of In the Making, teaching artist Kerry Downey has been tackling the difficult world of abstract art and the way in which non-representational art can express emotions. For her first field trip of the season, she took the group on a strange, confusing, and ultimately beautiful journey through the amazing environs of Long Island City’s Flux Factory.

March 21, 2011 | Events & Programs

Educator Journal: In the Making—Music for the Eyes

Posted by Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director, Teen and Community Partnerships

In the Making is a free, ten-week program for NYC teens that offers studio art making as led by various artist-educators in the field. For the past 6 weeks, MoMA educator Mark Dzula has been leading the teens in his Music for the Eyes class through the strange and wonderful world of sound-art and sound-based installations.

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