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April 27, 2012 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Create Ability: An Opportunity to Be Creative, A Chance to Grow

Posted by Kirsten Schroeder, Coordinator, Community and Access Programs

In a previous post I wrote about our Create Ability program for children and adults with learning or developmental disabilities, and the annual exhibition of work produced by these participants that was about to be installed.

April 25, 2012 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

My Fake ID: Teens Creating Art as Invented Characters

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

Creating personas in this season’s My Fake ID course for teens

Inspired by our current Cindy Sherman retrospective, the My Fake ID course for teens has centered around the development of constructed personas.

April 16, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Daredevils DO what others DON’T!

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

Shaping molten glass in Art for Daredevils

One of the more viscerally exciting In the Making courses that we’re offering our teens this season is Art for Daredevils: Pranks, Tricks, and Death-Defying Stunts.

April 11, 2012 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Come Out and Play: Material Bingo and Games for Learning

Posted by Stephanie Pau, Associate Educator, Interpretation and Research

Games are a hot topic in museums at the moment. Yet the intersection between art and games is old news. From Marcel Duchamp’s chess obsession to Surrealist parlor games in the 1920s (see: Exquisite Corpse), to more contemporary projects

March 16, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs, Print Studio, Viewpoints

Print Studio’s last days: Keep on Printin’!

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs Janelle Grace, Publicity Coordinator, Department of Communciations

Print Studio Editions, featuring prints and artist book projects

Last week Print Studio came to a close after six great weeks of productivity and experimentation with the medium of print.

March 5, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions, Conservation, Events & Programs, Print Studio, Videos

Ten-Minute Talk: MoMA Conservator Scott Gerson on Ellen Gallagher’s Deluxe

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs Janelle Grace, Publicity Coordinator, Department of Communciations

This week’s Ten-Minute Talk features Scott Gerson, Associate Conservator in MoMA’s Department of Conservation who discusses the materials and processes explored in Ellen Gallagher’s featured work Deluxe on display in the Printin’ exhibition.

March 5, 2012 | Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs, Print Studio

Print Studio: Last Week to Make a Print!

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs Janelle Grace, Publicity Coordinator, Department of Communciations

A wall of "Editions" made by Print Studio participants

Hard to believe that five great weeks have flown by at Print Studio and that this is the final week of the project!

March 2, 2012 | Events & Programs, Family & Kids

Create Ability Participants Take A Trip to the Moon

Posted by Kirsten Schroeder, Coordinator, Community and Access Programs

Next week, staff from MoMA’s Department of Education will attend a workshop organized by the Museum Access Consortium that will focus on museum programs for visitors who are on the autism spectrum.

February 24, 2012 | Events & Programs

Take Comfort: An Interactive Student Exhibition

Posted by Jessica Baldenhofer, Associate Educator, School and Teacher Programs

“It is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people.”—Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Quest to Learn students at MoMA

Last December, MoMA’s School Visits Program partnered with Quest to Learn School to design a weeklong Museum engagement for 16 of Q2L’s eighth-grade students. I collaborated with math teacher Kate Selkirk to plan an exciting week at MoMA as the students’ end-of-term project. Quest to Learn students are familiar with analyzing structures and systems, as their school’s pedagogy is built upon game theory and systems design. In my own social practice work, I explore ideas of generosity, empathy, and exchange. Connecting these ideas, the students spent a week at MoMA analyzing and creating art projects focused on performance and audience interaction, rather than traditional works that hang on walls.

At the beginning of the week, students lined up for green curry as part of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s piece, Untitled (Free/Still), in the Contemporary Galleries and asked, “How is this food art? Why does it look like a soup kitchen? Is this shelter supposed to be temporary and unfinished?” As they viewed more works, some expressed outright frustration at Duchamp’s alteration of everyday objects and Lawrence Weiner’s exposed wall lathing, which seemed like a practical joke to them. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Untitled (Placebo), however, seemed to placate one student’s query as she made a connection between her role in the meaning of the artist’s work, and how related it to the way a feedback loop informs successful game design. Their creative responses to the works varied widely from intrigue (as they explored the idea of “collaborative authorship” through exquisite corpse drawing exercises) to delight (as they interpreted Benjamin Patterson’s Paper Piece in the recent Fluxus exhibition Thing/Thought).

Fluxus Paper Piece from Grace Hwang on Vimeo.

Students interact with visitors on Fifth Avenue

We asked the students to ponder these questions, then apply their ideas to creating experiential works of art to share with MoMA staff in an interactive exhibition. They decided to explore the notion of “comfort,” and asked: “How can we give and take comfort to/from each other? And how can this be applied through interactions with visitors?” Students were given a short time to create their works and organize them in a self-curated exhibition in MoMA’s Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education & Research Building. Giving Tree, created by an introverted student, involved offering help—such as giving directions or offering restaurant suggestions—to passersby on Fifth Avenue. One group chose to give away hot chocolate, hugs, and compliments, while another placed participants in a vulnerable position by asking them to profess their moods or insecurities. They documented their process and presented their projects to their school at the end of the week. I, along with their peers and principal, was surprised at how students approached their work in a way that was playful, risky, cheeky, vulnerable, and critical. It was clear that over the week, students really expanded their ideas around what makes something art, and the unexpected ways artworks can be created.

Q2L- Gifts from School Programs on Vimeo.

Last month, I met Kate at a Thai restaurant in Jackson Heights to talk about the experience. Over dinner, she mentioned a noticeable change in her relationship with the students who had participated in the project. She said, “it seemed as if an invisible social glue has brought about a shared understanding between them as they pass the halls.” As a teacher, she saw how art can initiate excitement and involvement for students, while expanding their awareness of the world around them and each other. She confessed that this experience inspired her to apply for a teaching grant to visit Thailand this summer where she hopes to visit Tiravanija’s The Land Project.

Perhaps it’s not what specifically happens at the Museum that is remembered, but the memory of having experienced something meaningful and how we live in the days following.

This partnership was conducted and documented by Grace Hwang, School Visits Educator.

February 13, 2012 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs, Print Studio

This Week at Print Studio: Triple Canopy and Altered Books Workshop

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs Janelle Grace, Publicity Coordinator, Department of Communciations

This week at Print Studio, we invite you to participate in the first of three public programs organized by Triple Canopy as part of a series called Miscellaneous Uncatalogued Material that “explores the evolution of print-based artwork in recent decades, from the revival of traditional techniques to the employment of new digital technologies.”

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