ASPP-GT.1220 Stu 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Lorie Novak
Community Collaborations
Professor Lorie Novak
ASPP – GT 2220.001 (Graduate section)
Undergraduate students contact Department of Photography and Imaging for cross-listed section.
Mondays 6 – 8pm
4 points
COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS is a Photography & Imaging and Art and Public Policy Course where NYU students teach digital photo based image making to high school students from throughout NYC in the Photography and Imaging digital labs. Working in teams of two or three, the NYU students co-facilitate small workshops two afternoons a week with the teens. Digital cameras are provided for the high school students to photograph their families, friends, and communities to create photographic essays exploring their day-to-day lives, dreams, concerns, and social-political challenges. The workshops will run from early February to end of April and are free for the teens and open by application. During the Monday evening course time for NYU students, focus will be on workshop development, lesson planning, discussion of challenges, collaboration and supervision from the instructor. There will also be guest speakers. Each group will create an online exhibition that will be added to the Community Collaborations website: http://photoandimaging.net/coco.
NOTE: Groups with the teens meet two afternoons a week in addition to the course time. When you plan your schedule, make sure you have a minimum of two afternoons a week free from 3:30-6. Once you have a sense of your schedule, please email lorie.novak@nyu.edu. Non-majors interested in this course should have experience in photography, web design, film/video, or community-based teaching. Permission of instructor required. Teams will be created so that students will draw on each other’s strengths.
