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print this pageReaching Out: Partnerships, Pedagogy and Photography at CUNY
Saturday, October 29 - 1:45PM to 2:45PM
Reaching out beyond the University to form partnerships with museums, cultural institutions, and communities adds vitality and fresh thinking to coursework, enriching the academic experience for students and teachers alike. This panel demonstrates how partnerships within New York City, nationally and even internationally enhance pedagogy in photography and art history courses. How do the course goals link to the types of partnerships?
Photography faculty can work with arts institutions, scientists, activists, libraries, and archivesto support experiential learning. Liena Vayzman, Laguardia Community College, will discuss partnerships with Aperture Foundation and the Walker Evans Foundation that connect students to scholars in the field. She will demonstrate student projects on family photographs that inspire primary research and writing on photography. Scott Sternbach, LaGuardia Community College Program Director of Photography, will speak of creating partnerships with scientists, Native American activists and environmentalists to create study away programs for CUNY students to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the Antarctic Peninsula, and Chilean and Argentine Patagonia. These partnerships impact communities well beyond the students who are the direct participants. Reiner Leist, Professor of Art/Photography at Hunter College, will address the role of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Photography Conservation Laboratory and the New York Public Library Photography Collection in his teaching and in connection to his own photography in terms of materiality and time. Robin Michals will talk about her work taking photography students to the Brooklyn Historical Society to develop information literacy and a sense of historical context by exposing students to primary sources on the history of GreenWood Cemetery before visiting and photographing in that location.
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