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August 4, 2010 | Events & Programs

What I Did Last Summer

Posted by Marit Dewhurst, Director of Art Education, City College of New York

In the Making Alumni, Summer 2010, during the artmaking workshops.

We’re all familiar with the time-honored “What I  Did Last Summer” essay. For many of us, this dreaded homework  assignment meant trying to glamorize the hours we spent busing tables at a local restaurant or counting license plates on a family road trip. But for five hundred New York City teens, “What I Did Last Summer” is a  chance to revisit their experience as participants in The Museum of  Modern Art’s intensive studio art program, In the Making: Summer at  MoMA.

August 2, 2010 | Events & Programs

MoMA’s Community Murals: Connecting Students through the Arts

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

For teens, feeling disconnected from one’s peers, parents, and school is par for the course. In some ways, this disconnect can be a good thing: as teens move away from these childhood bonds, they begin a process of self-discovery and self-realization, figuring out who they are and who they want to be in the process.

July 21, 2010 | Events & Programs

Brushes, Canvases, and Paint Optional

Posted by Marit Dewhurst, Director of Art Education, City College of New York Mark Joshua Epstein, MoMA Teaching Artist and Open Art Space Co-Creator

What’s so unconventional about painting? According to the teens in MoMA’s Unconventional Painting class, a lot.

July 19, 2010 | Events & Programs

2010 Community Partners Art Show Opening

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

On Tuesday evening, MoMA held an opening party for our first-ever Community Partners Art Show. On view through July 30 in the lower gallery of the Cullman Education Building, the exhibition showcases artwork created in collaboration with the various populations served through the Museum’s twenty-nine different community partnership organizations. These organizations serve a wide variety of social, economic, and educational needs across a wide section of New York City, and the issues that our Community Partner Organizations address (issues that include but are not limited to homelessness, HIV/AIDS, juvenile incarceration, adult basic education, immigration services, prostitution, drug addiction, family literacy, and job training) are not issues that are immediately associated with traditional museum education.

July 9, 2010 | Events & Programs

Rain or Shine: Summergarden Concerts Go On!

Posted by Joel Sachs, Conductor and Director, New Juilliard Ensemble

The New Juilliard Ensemble performing at Summergarden

The July 11 opening of Summergarden 2010 draws near. The program book has gone to press. All arrangements are in order. Rehearsals once again show how the remarkable young musicians of the New Juilliard Ensemble can conquer pretty much any musical problem.

July 7, 2010 | Events & Programs, Rising Currents

Poet Matthea Harvey’s Plans to Slow Rising Currents

Posted by Matthea Harvey, poet and author

Installation view of Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront (on view through October 11). Photo: Jason Mandella

Early this summer, I was asked by MoMA educator Laura Beiles to write a poem responding to the show Rising Currents for a Modern Poets reading that took place aboard the New York Water Taxi on June 29. When I first walked into the gallery space, I was struck by the measuring sticks painted on the walls, showing how much the water will rise in the next century.

July 5, 2010 | Events & Programs

Mining Modern Museum Education: Further Considerations

Posted by George Hein, Professor Emeritus, Lesley University

John Dewey and Albert Barnes

When I received the abstracts for the Mining Modern Museum Education conference—held at MoMA this past Friday, June 25—and read Wendy Woon’s blog posts on the topic, I was particularly sorry I couldn’t attend. It’s thrilling to explore the rich history of museum education, and surprising that so little has been accessible to date.

June 29, 2010 | Events & Programs, MoMA PS1

Greater New York 2010: Artists Present

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs Claire Crowley, Twelve-month Intern, Department of Education

David Brooks. Terra Incognitae—Rainforest Canopy (Cronos version) (installation at the Sculpture Center through July 27, 2010). 2010. Photo courtesy of the artist

How much can you say about a work of art in twenty-five seconds? That’s the challenge we posed to ten artists whose work is featured in Greater New York 2010, on view through October 18, 2010, at MoMA PS1. Last Wednesday, we invited five of these artists to join us at MoMA for the first session of Greater New York 2010: Artists Present, a two-part public program wherein artists in the show are invited to give the public a behind-the-scenes look at their work and their creative processes using a twenty-image PowerPoint presentation. The catch? Each image is only onscreen for twenty-five seconds, and the artists don’t have control of the slideshow! It’s almost like art speed-dating!

June 25, 2010 | Events & Programs

Mining Modern Museum Education: Briley Rasmussen on Victor D’Amico

Posted by Wendy Woon, Edward John Noble Deputy Director for Education

Victor D'Amico. Photograph by David E Scherman

I often to try to imagine what it was like for MoMA’s first director of education, Victor D’Amico, to build a new, expansive education program dedicated to art with a radically different modern aesthetic at a time when the public was hard hit by the Great Depression.

June 24, 2010 | Events & Programs

Mining Modern Museum Education: Kim Kanatani on Hilla Rebay

Posted by Wendy Woon, Edward John Noble Deputy Director for Education

Hilla Rebay in her Carnegie Hall studio, 1935. The Hilla von Rebay Foundation Archives. Photo: Eugene Hutchinson.

I first discovered Hilla Rebay while reading a fascinating book about the life of Peggy Guggenheim, Mistress of Modernism by Mary V. Dearborn, who happened to be my office mate while I was New York City Scholar at the Heyman Center for Humanities at Columbia University several years ago. Peggy’s life was filled with a cast of interesting art world characters, but Hilla Rebay was clearly someone I needed to know more about.

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