Projects tagged "Education"

Foreclosure Series
Practitioner:
Kathryn Clark
Date:
May 4 2012
"It was important to me to present the whole story in a way that would captivate people’s attention and make a memorable statement. Making quilts seemed an ironic solution. Quilts act as a functional memory, an historical record of difficult times.  It is during times of hardship that people have traditionally made quilts,
GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Practitioner:
PAUL=FELIX MONTEZ
Date:
Aug 15 2015
Imagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone is pointed at one of the plaques an entire timeline biographical history of that peacemaker becomes available.
Ghetto Film School
Practitioner:
Joe Hall
Date:
Sep 2 2000
The mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers.
National AIDS Memorial
Practitioner:
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, DUANE CRAMER, MATT KENNEDY, STEVE SAGASER, GERT MCMULLIN, RODDY WILLIAMS, JADA HARRIS, OSCAR FABIAN, BRIAN HOLMAN, RACHELLE AXEL, KAREN HANZAWA, DIANNA CAMPBELL, MIKE FUNG
Date:
Oct 11 1988
The Quilt was conceived in November of 1985 by long-time human rights activist, author and lecturer Cleve Jones. Since the 1978 assassinations of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone, Jones had helped organize the annual candlelight march honoring these men. While planning the 1985 march, he learned that over 1,000 San Franciscans had been lost to AIDS.
A Picture is Worth
Practitioner:
Threshold Collaborative
Date:
Jan 16 2015
a picture is worth... provides youth with the opportunity to find their voice, surface their values and connect with others in creative and affirming ways. The project integrates academic skills such as literacy, the development of critical thinking, communications, community engagement, photography and technology with values of integrity, self-awareness, empathy and leadership.
The Protest Banner Lending Library
Practitioner:
Aram Han Sifuentes
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners to use in protests.
Students Protest John Galliano
Practitioner:
Parsons Jewish Student Union
Date:
Apr 25 2013
In 2011, a video displaying fashion designer and former lead designer at Dior, John Galliano, shouting anti-Semitic remarks, went viral on the internet, leading to his subsequent dismissal from Dior and the subsequent defamation of his career. Nonetheless, Parsons at the New School extended Galliano an offer to teach a specialized design seminar, which was scheduled to begin this year.

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