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November 29, 2010 | Counter Space, Events & Programs

Educator Journal: In the Making—Food & Art

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

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A small portion of student artwork from the Food & Art class

For this Educator Journal, I asked teaching artist Alan Calpe to reflect upon the last seven weeks of his Food & Art class. Working with a diverse group of NYC teens, Alan has been investigating the Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen exhibition and exploring the various cultural and social connotations that artists bring to the table (so to speak) when addressing the idea of food in their work. The class has been up to their elbows in paper maché, and we’re all eagerly awaiting their final food-based projects.

-Calder Zwicky, Associate Educator, Teen and Community Programs

November 24, 2010 | Events & Programs

Educator Journal: In the Making—Social Architecture

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

For this series of posts, I’ve asked the teaching artists from this season’s In the Making Art Classes to reflect on what they’ve been doing over the past couple of weeks with their teenaged students. Each In the Making class meets once a week—Tuesday or Thursday nights—and focuses on introducing the participants to the materials, techniques, artistic theories, and exhibitions currently on view in MoMA’s galleries. It’s a great way for teens to find a community of positive, creative peers outside of a high school setting, and all classes are offered completely free of charge to the participating students. For this entry, teaching artist Grace Hwang explores her process of introducing students to the themes and philosophies behind our Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement exhibition.

August 18, 2010 | Events & Programs

Lady Gaga Did Not Attend This Opening

Posted by Nathan Sensel, MoMA School Visits Educator Marit Dewhurst, Director of Art Education, City College of New York

Photo by Brenda Zamora

You probably didn’t hear about the huge exhibition opening last week at MoMA—it didn’t make the front page of The New York Times Arts or Style sections; no one was interviewed on NPR about it; no pictures of the artists appeared on Art Fag City. And yet it was definitely the place to be if you are interested in mingling with the freshest faces in contemporary art.

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.

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.

May 10, 2010 | Events & Programs, Tech

PopArt Wins a People’s Voice Webby Award!

Posted by David Hart, Media Producer, Digital Media Nathan Sensel, MoMA School Visits Educator

Congratulations to the teens from the MoMA Teen Voices Project for their hard work on the website PopArt, which recently won a People’s Voice Webby in the Art category. The Teen Voices Project (formerly the Youth Advisory Council), a group of sixteen students from New York City high schools, collaborated with MoMA Staff to design the interactive site.

Faced with the challenge of creating an educational resource that other teens could use to engage with MoMA, the team started by learning about and analyzing existing interactive educational activities, websites, and technology-based communication projects. After countless debates on the purpose of education, the coolest parts of MoMA, and strategies to make MoMA more accessible to teens, the team identified a vision for their project: to create an online tool for people of all ages to interact with and respond to modern art, to reveal unexpected connections between works of art, and to trust in their own “gut” feelings about art.

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