These might just be my two favorite classes, two variations on the theme of Community, Identity, and Culture in Art Education: one graduate version and one undergraduate version. A little multicultural education, lots of discussions about how race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, and all our other identities impact power and privilege in education, some culturally-relevant art-making, a dash of how not to essentialize cultures when teaching about their art, and a ton of thinking about what it means to teach art in a way that empowers young people to be active agents of equality and justice in our world. It doens’t get any better.
The teens in the Museum Teen Summit have created a brand new website all by themselves. As if that doesn’t blow your minds enough, they also have a classifieds section for all NYC museum teen programs, AND an online magazine about teens, art, and museums.