CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
Picture
This: A Cross-Discipline Approach
to Exhibition and Education
Nelle
Stokes
Founding Executive Director,
Magic Box Productions, Inc.
Millie Burns
Director,
Hewitt Gallery of Art
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We will facilitate
a guided exploration of our own process
of working between disciplines and
institutions as we created an original
museum-quality Manhattan gallery exhibition
of student photographs and video.
How
do you plan, put together and successfully
execute a public exhibition of student
multi-media work that succeeds on both
an artistic and advocacy level? In this
workshop, co-presenters Nelle Stokes
and
Millie Burns will facilitate
a guided exploration of their own process
of creating an exhibition for the Gallery
at 180 Maiden Lane in Manhattan. They'll
cover the nuts and bolts of issues such
as curating, funding, publicity and event
management. In the second half of the
workshop, participants will experience
a similar process first-hand, as they
combine forces with each other to brainstorm
and plan their own interactive and interdisciplinary
collaborations. By the end of the workshop,
participants will understand how to begin
to leverage partnerships and leave with
tools for successful design and implementation
of their own programs.
Conference Strand:
Curriculum and Assessment
Educators:
will leave with a greater
knowledge of the process of planning
and executing a public exhibition in
partnership with other individuals
and institutions, and a deeper understanding
of the process necessary for successful
collaborations. Educators will gain
insight into the needs and processes
of the cultural and exhibition community.
Artists: will
leave with a greater knowledge of the
process of planning and executing a public
exhibition in partnership with other
individuals and institutions, and a deeper
understanding of the process necessary
for successful collaborations. Artists
will gain insight into the needs and
processes of educators, and ways to collaborate
in an exhibition setting.
Cultural
Organization Administrators:
will leave with a greater knowledge
of the process of planning and executing
a public exhibition in partnership
with other individuals and institutions,
and a deeper understanding of the process
necessary for successful collaborations.
Cultural administrators will gain
insight into the needs and impacts
of exhibition on the educational
community.
Community/Parents: will
leave with a greater knowledge of the
process of planning and executing a public
exhibition in partnership with other
individuals and institutions, and a deeper
understanding of the process necessary
for successful collaborations.
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Nelle
Stokes is a documentary
videographer, teaching artist, and
Executive Director of Magic Box Productions,
Inc., a media arts-in-education organization.
As a filmmaker, she has created videos
for nonprofit clients including the
School Arts Rescue Initiative, Lexington
Center for the Deaf, New Visions for
Public Schools, and the Roundabout
Theatre Company. Magic Box has helped
thousands of NYC students and teachers
to create and share their original
photographs, animations and documentaries
through arts residencies throughout
the tri-state area.
Millie Burns is
an integrated media artist, Director
of the Hewitt Gallery of Art and Assistant
Professor of Art at Marymount Manhattan
College. She has also worked
with Rotunda Gallery.
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