Educational Media Projects

Artist's Statement
My educational work with teenagers involves a dialogue with pop culture and contemporary art, which provides an entry point into a shared collective vocabulary. Manipulating and dialoguing with pop imagery assists in the acquisition of power over images which shape and inform our collective identities and values. Digital cameras are potent tools for gaining mastery over a jump cut universe of visual messages. Framing the world in close-up becomes a step toward self awareness, a way to transcend the spill-over of celebrity culture.

Teaching Artist/Project Director
Winter/Spring 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Seeing Like a Camera. Annual Video and Art History project teaching teenagers innovative ways to explore the DIA collection through the camera lens. Series of workshops including media literacy, art history, photography, storyboarding, video production and editing. Final experimental video projects explore the work of Conceptual Artists from the DIA collection. Collaboration with Beacon High School and DIA Art Education staff. Beacon, NY.
http://www.diabeacon.org/prg/educat/

NEA Artist-in-Residencies
Reel Grrls, Seattle, WA. November 2006
"SuperGirls" Writing and storyboarding workshop exploring pop culture icons of female power toward the creation of a SuperHeroine narrative.

Reel Grrls/911 Media Arts Center. Spring 2003
"Icons." Media Literacy, Creative Writing, Storyboarding, Scripting and Video Editing workshops for teenage girls culminating in experimental video portraits shown at final public screening.

"Maiden USA/Reel Grrls," Spring/Summer 2001
Creative writing, storyboarding and video production workshop series and collaborative five-screen video installation project with teenage girls, exploring body language, identity and heroines from popular culture. On view at 911 Media Arts Center June-July 2001. "Maiden USA/Reel Grrls" selected by NEA as one of its top ten funded arts-for-youth projects of 2001. www.ReelGrrls.org
(See flash version of 2001 Maiden USA video installation)

Reel Grrls Press
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/616/context/archive
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=7603
(view sample reel for Reel Grrls)

Artist Residencies, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
January-March 2002.
"Crash Site: Hindsight." Workshop series combining media literacy, video journalism, video art, performance art and installation culminating in youth media presentation and 9/11 memorial installation, Garrison, NY. Funded by Putnam Arts Council.

Jan-April, 2001.
"Gender Benders," media literacy, video art and performance workshop for teenagers on popular culture and gender, Garrison, NY. Funded by Putnam Arts Council.
(See flash version of video installation)

Guest Artist, Children's Media Project, July 2001.
Teen Vids Workshop. Video self-portrait installation project designed for three stacked monitors self-portraits. Installation on view at CMP, summer 2001. Poughkeepsie, NY.
(See flash version of video installation)

 


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