2016 Multimedia Team

PUBLIC ART YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM SUMMER 2016

MULTIMEDIA TEAM

PUBLIC ART YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM SUMMER 2016 MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

by The Harlem Reel Multimedia Team Grand Culminating Event Thursday, August 11th, 5:30 PM Oberia D. Dempsey Multi-Service Center 127 W. 127th Street New York, NY 10027 Anissa Hanley, Teaching Artist Duron Jackson, Teaching Artist Elizabeth Orr, Teaching Artist

About the Harlem Reel Team

This roving team of photographers, videographers and reporters, headquartered in Global Community Charter School, has been documenting the art-making process and capturing the compelling and unique stories of our four mural teams.

The video shorts created by these inspiring and inspired young artists will be premiered in the beautifully renovated Dempsey Center Auditorium. Please join us after the screening for a courtyard reception to celebrate the end of summer and to honor the accomplishments of all our Youth Apprentices. www.creativeartworks.org.

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FROM BRIAN RICKLIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CEO

Public Art is a Conversation At Creative Art Works, we know that the artistic process is a powerful tool for creating meaningful conversation and shared understanding. In light of recent events in the news at home and around the world, the need for common ground among people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and points of view is ever more present in our minds.

This summer, our Youth Apprentices met with our program partners and ventured out into our communities seeking to answer this essential question: “What message should our art express?� As they gathered stories bridging generations, languages, cultures, identity markers and social stations, they also wrestled with harder questions about American history, race relations, food scarcity, public health, law enforcement, and the nature of access and opportunity. Some of these conversations were challenging, some were uplifting: in every case they led to a deeper understanding. As our young people developed storyboards and mural designs, we also witnessed them developing the ability to passionately advocate for their ideas while simultaneously respecting the perspectives of others.

Today, we are excited to share with you the youth-generated work, which we believe embodies the spirit of our community. We hope that this public art will continue to encourage robust and fruitful conversations for many years to come.

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Anissa Hanley

Oscar Chavez

Shanya Cosme

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Miguel Nunez Kiara Hernandez Andre Forbes Elizabeth Orr

Leonela Deleon

Dominique Myvett Kristoff Hinds

Mariam Cisse

Markia Theus Marisol Vasquez

Paul Crespo Duron Jackson

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Andre Forbes Andre is Jamaican-American who currently resides in Yonkers, NY. He is 17 years old even though he looks much younger. He likes to draw, mostly figures of people and animals, and has been to several art clubs, even training under the popular artist BlueHanzo. Andre has taught children grades 7-8 how to engineer robots in the Scholastic Program. He has a lot of goals, mostly to entertain and make others happy.

Kiara Hernandez Kiara is an eighteen year old recent high school graduate from the Bronx. In her spare time, she runs a Wordpress blog called awkward young adult for which she has won two Sunshine Blogger awards. She has a passion for storytelling, film and comedy. Next fall, she plans to attend the School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College. Her dream is to someday direct, write, and produce comedic films and TV shows.

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Dominique Myvett Dominique is 21 years old and was born and raised in Harlem.

She is attending BMCC this fall in hopes of earning an Associate Degree in Nursing.

Kristoff Hinds Kristoff is 23, was born in the Bronx and lives in Co Op City.

He attended Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts. He is a recent graduate of Hostos Community College and aspires to attend a four year college. Kristoff traveled to China with the People to People Young Ambassadors Program and. He had the opportunity to see the Great Wall, the Terracotta Museum, and much more. He has also seen England and Jamaica. His hobbies are photography and watching movies, which he would like to combine in his future profession.

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Leonela Deleon Leonela is a 17 year old who is in the senior class of 2017 at the Academy for Social Action. Her passion is photography. She loves music because she feels free when she puts her headphones on and it’s an escape from everything around her. She’s a go-getter.

Her goal is to be a psychologist in order to help people deal with their problems and have better lives.

Marisol Vasquez Marisol is from the Bronx and is 18 years old. She goes to Mott Hall Bronx High School. Marisol is currently a senior and plans on going to college next year. Her interests include music and filmmaking. Her future goal is to work in the film or music industry.

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Mariam Cisse Mariam is 19 years old and a Harlem native. She will be attending Buffalo State College in the fall, with a major in Immigration Law and Business Management. Mariam is certified in Adobe CS6 Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop. She wants to travel the world, meet new people, and understand the world in a different light.

Markell Crosbie Markell is a 16 year old who is entering the 11th grade at Chelsea CTE High School. He grew up in Pennsylvania until the age of 10, and then moved to the Bronx. He received two “Most Improved� certificates in Math and Science.

He is interested in sports, including basketball, baseball, and football.

His main interest is video game design. It is his aspiration to be a video game designer and open a business for creating a variety of games.

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Markia Theus Markia is a 17 year old from Harlem. Her interests include graphic design, game design, coding, film, and beat-making.

She graduated from Chelsea CTE High School in 2016. She is taking a year off in order to work on personal projects before attending college.

Shanya Cosme Shanya grew up in Inwood. She is 16 years old and currently goes to the High School For Environmental Studies at Columbus Circle.

Her hobbies are photography, dancing, and discovering different types of music. One of her proudest achievements was her attendance in The Work, Learn & Grow Program, a winter semester program where she volunteered to help the less fortunate. Shanya’s future goals are to attend college to become a veterinarian, and to travel the world.

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Shalilah Shaw Shalilah is 18 years old and lives in Brooklyn. Her biggest accomplishment was graduating middle school, which she believed she’d never do. She currently attends Jamaica High School.

Her favorite hobbies are cooking, reading, writing, and playing basketball. Shalilah’s goal is to become a social worker for kids in foster care.

Oscar Chavez Oscar is a 22 year old graduate from Urban Assembly Media High School, class of 2012. He is an excellent photographer, and was in a photography internship with the Studio Museum in Harlem. This is Oscar’s second year on the Multimedia team, and he is proud to be learning more about various aspects of film and photography. Oscar’s interests are music, art, and watching his favorite television shows on Netflix. As an experienced film and photography Apprentice, he has future plans of creating his own film production brand and company in his hometown of Harlem.

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Stephanie Guzman

Stephanie is 18, currently lives in the Bronx, and recently graduated high school.

Stephanie is a great leader in softball and has been elected M.V.P for basketball two years in a row. Her future goal is to attend college in Florida to study business. Stephanie is a proud Dominican who wants to create her own business, although she doesn’t know what type of business yet.

Paul Eric Crespo, Jr. Paul is 22 years old and a Harlem native. He has plans to attend Per Scholas Technical School for creating and managing network computers. Paul is a three year veteran of CAW’s Multimedia Team. His hobbies include reading, building computers, football, and baseball. After completing tech school, he plans to operate his own computer lab.

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Zakiya Price-Smith

Zakiya is 18 and is a 2016 Leadership and Public Service High School graduate from Manhattan. This is her first year with Creative Art Works’ Multimedia Team. Zakiya’s interests are Performing Arts and Animal Science, which she’s had a passion for throughout her childhood. She plans to attend the NYC College of Technologyto pursue her dream of becoming an animal science technician this coming Fall.

Miguel Nunez Miguel is 15 and was born in Washington Heights. He is the youngest of three. He graduated from Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (W.H.E.E.L.S). Miguel aspires to graduate high school and attend college to study animation and become a game designer. He has won awards for attendance and history.

His interests include games, movies, comic books, literature, and technology.

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Elisabeth Orr, Teaching Artist Elizabeth was born in Venice, CA. She is a filmmaker and artist, currently working on her first large-scale film, Mt Rush.

Elizabeth is represented by Bodega gallery in NYC and is the manager of Eric Orr’s Estate.

She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts at Hampshire College and her M.F.A from Bard College.

Her work has been featured in multiple organizations including Artists Space Books and Talks, Recess, NurtureArt and MoMA, all in NYC; If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, The Netherlands; ICA Philadelphia; and Harvard University Carpenter Center.

She has been commissioned by MOCAtv and the Museum of Art and Design.

Anissa Hanley , Teaching Artist

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Anissa is a proud Canadian who received her BFA at Parsons School of Design. She has taught classes in graphic, video game and website Design, as well as Photography and Videography to middle schoolers. During her first year at Parsons, a video montage she created, using various clips that addressed same-sex marriage, was displayed during the Parsons Festival. She also created her first full-length horror video game with a psychological twist, which was featured during the Parsons Thesis Show. She has an interest in psychology, horror, and comedy, and tries to find ways to implement them into her art. She writes for the blog, Black Nerd Problems.

Duron Jackson, Teaching Artist Duron is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist. He received his MFA in Sculpture at Bard College, Milton Avery School of Art, and was a 2013 recipient of the prestigious Fulbright research fellowship for creative research in Brazil, where he was concurrently artist in residence at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia and Museu AfroBrasil in São Paulo. In 2012 he was awarded Brooklyn Museum’s Raw/Cooked solo exhibition for his multi-media installation titled “Rumination.” Jackson is currently a BRIC Media Arts Fellow where he’s developing a project that examines the overlaps of mass incarceration and gentrification and its effects on local communities.

Shante Richardson , Teaching Fellow

Shante Richardson is a 28-yearold from Westchester County.

She graduated from CUNY Lehman College with a degree in English in 2012 and is currently a Citizen Schools Teaching Fellow. Shante ran on the Track and Cross Country teams in college. She will be attending City College this fall to study Biology and plans to teach high school Biology. Shante’s interests include reading graphic novels, weightlifting, and breakdance.

She has been breakdancing for 12 years and has taught a breakdancing club for Citizen Schools, which included Graffiti art and other elements of Hip Hop.

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About the Public Art Youth Employment Program

The Creative Art Works Public Art Youth Employment Program gives teens and young adults 14-24 years of age full-time summer jobs and part-time jobs after school to create large-scale public art and multimedia projects. Our Youth Apprentices are guided by professional teaching artists and executive staff from the initial concept development through client presentation, to the final brush stroke and public unveiling. Along the way, they gain tangible employment and life skills such as leadership, teamwork, responsibility and the power of taking initiative. They are empowered by the enduring accomplishment in their work of art and its positive impact on the community.

About Creative Art Works

Creative Art Works (CAW) improves the lives of thousands of NYC youth each year through in-school and out-of-school-time classes, community art-making events, and youth employment creating large-scale public art or multimedia projects.

Working in public schools, community centers, parks and libraries, CAW provides dynamic arts experiences for youth who otherwise lack access. Our programs build confidence, unlock a love of learning, and teach valuable technical and developmental skills while creating profound connections between our young constituents, their art and their communities.

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This program was made possible, in part, with funding from the Summer Youth Employment Program of the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, as well as

by NYC Council members Mark Levine and Melissa Mark-Viverito, and these generous supporters:

Creative Art Works is grateful to www.digitaltouchinc.com for providing discounted printing services and world-class customer service.

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“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.”

– Ansel Adams

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