Creative Art Works Programs at A. Philip Randolph HS, 2016/2017

CREATIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 2016/2017

GRAND CULMINATING EVENT May 23, 2017, 6:00 - 8:00 PM A. Philip Randolph Campus High School 443 West 135 Street, New York, NY 10031

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

From Daniel Bergman, Program Director

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9th Grade Visual Narrative

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Anatomy and Physiology Medical Illustration Lab

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Food Countermarketing

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Forensic Art

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Whole Foods Market Harlem Public Art Apprenticeship

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Dual Langurage Integrated Learning

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Documentary Filmmaking Apprenticeship

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Mardi Gras Headress, Dual Language Integrated Learning Program 2

FROM DANIEL BERGMAN, PROGRAM DIRECTOR CREATIVE ART WORKS

We Believe Art-Making Can Change the World All art-making is an act of communication. Without an audience, artwork can’t fulfill its communicative function and is fundamentally incomplete. Moreover, the processes that surround exhibiting artwork — the development of artists’ statements, the receiving of feedback and recognition — are essential elements in supporting the development of a sense of agency. This is why we celebrate the completion of all our programs with culminating events that connect our youth with audiences from their communities to acknowledge the power of their voices.

Creative Art Works and the students, faculty and staff of A. Philip Randolph Campus High School have much to celebrate. This spring, we completed two ongoing classes, five new programs and one youth employment program. All of these rich and varied programs were integrated into the core curriculum, and all of them offered students a chance to explore complexity, confront ambiguity and embrace opportunities to generate creative solutions to authentic problems. If we want our young people to become lifelong learners and enthusiastic problem solvers, we need to invite them to explore, to ask questions, to take healthy risks, to find their voices and engage in the reciprocal acts of communication.

This brief brochure commemorates seven programs that provided young people the opportunity to search for meaning, give creative voice to their visions, to share in healthy dialogues, and to communicate authentically with their families, their peers and their communities. These practices are the building blocks of agency: the belief that intentional, creative action can transform not just ourselves, but the world around us.

Yours sincerely,

Daniel Bergaman, Program Director Creative Art Works

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9th Grade Visual Narrative Every Picture Tells a Story This class explored the ways artists and writers tell stories. Students were encouraged to develop a personal voice and style while employing a variety of drawing and painting techniques to create visual narratives related to the novels they were reading in their English Language Learning classes. Connecting the themes of the novels they read to the work of artists with their own life experiences, students explored issues of identity, point of view, and trauma in their works. We applaud their bravery and honesty.

Top row, left to right: CAW Teaching Artist Frank Parga, Brian Flores, Zarin Syed, Kiaralyn Rosario, Giselle Roque, Detra Moore, Cynthia Vazquez Bottom row, left to right: Kaliany Morales, Maya Barrera, Tsunami Ubiera, Karla Valdez, APRCHS Teacher Veronica Podomo Not in photo: Brianna Hacic, Andrea Garcia, Andrea Mionaca, Devine Craig McNeil, Mia Williams, Tristen Acosta 5

Medical Illustration Lab Students Alexis Jasmine Ashfield Peter Baako Fatumata Begum Rathna Brown Jahnya Casey-Richardso Vesaida Castillo Rosalba Diaz Abdul Elliot Annielaurie Forbes Tyra Gonzalez Valerie Jurado Baculima Ashley Labrew Emani Lorenzo Jenifer Mcleish Kori Mosley Terence

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Naim Nadia Pallares Jessika Pugh Douglas Rahman Shahriar Richardson Chislaine Rosario Nicoles Singh Jessica Soto Samantha St Omer Nadia Troncoso Kaitlyn Ullah Kazi Urena Elmy Vassell Danae White Robert CAW Teaching Artist Ashli Sisk APRCHS Teacher Dr. Miriam Cusack

Anatomy and Physiology Medical Illustration Lab Exploring the Complexity of the Human Body In 2015, CAW partnered with A. Philip Randolph Campus High School to develop a Medical Illustration Lab in conjunction with the Honors Anatomy and Physiology class. This program is now in it’s second year. Students were challenged to interpret what they had learned about the human body through a variety of art projects. For students more comfortable with the certainties of math and science, the open-ended nature of creating art placed them outside their comfort zone, yet the act of interpreting classroom subjects through the lens of art-making allowed them to draw new connections and spurred thoughtful conversations.

Projects examined a wide variety of topics, from the structures of human cells to the symptoms of psychiatric disorders. The goal of these projects was to offer students a framework to describe and discuss complicated ideas and relationships, many of which cannot be explained with a charts or diagrams.

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Food Countermarketing Truth in Advertising Countermarketing describes educational activities designed to reduce the demand for products found to be harmful to health. Working with Teaching Artists Liza Cucco and Miah Artola, APRCHS students concentrated their efforts on the harmful effects of consuming sugary drinks, which have been associated with negative health outcomes, including tooth decay, sleep disorders, obesity and diabetes. Working in teams or individually, they created posters for a collaborative campaign aimed at reducing demand for these harmful drinks.

The APRCHS Countermarketers Djeneba Sow Aissetai Kaba Nusrat Nisha Maryeun Aifa Zarin Syed Sandra Tapia Yrangel Payero Mya Rodriguez Brian Flores Adrian Espinoza

Tsunami Ubiera Shade Rodriguez Denisse Cruztutce Abdul Druz CAW Teaching Artist Liza Cucco CAW Teaching Artist Miah Artola Charita Johnson, CUNY Program Manager for Youth Food Educators Craig Willingham, Deputy Director CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

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Forensic Art Students Justice Andrews

Imani Moore

Ethel Broome

Trevon Reeves

John LaPolla

Luis Rodriguez

Jada Mencia

Hawa Alhassan

Xai Montalvo

Brenda Bueno

Kyhree Page

Ulises Gonzalez

Cherish Pratt

Malik Mcphee

Idalis Rodriguez

Tiana Moye

David Ulloa

Florian Paul

Allen Nicholas

Issac Rodriguez

Iliyha Banks

Christopher Molina

Mohammad Diaby

Alisandra Rodriguez

Paola Garcia

CAW Teaching Artist Abraham Salazar

Arlene Larrea

APRCHS Teacher John Predovan APRCHS Teacher Joseph Petrulo

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Forensic Art

Thinking Outside the Box The Forensic Art class draws inspiration from popular police procedural shows such as Bones and the CSI franchise. Like these shows, the Forensic Art class is a liberal mix of science and fantasy unified by practical art skills. Projects encourage “lateral thinking,� or solving problems through an indirect and creative approach.

Taking plaster casts is a common forensic technique that crosses many disciplines, from collecting tire tracks in criminal investigations, to reconstructing a dinosaur from footprints in ancient sandstone. Students used this idea to create casts of their own imaginary creatures.

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Whole Foods Market Harlem Public Art Apprenticeship About the Public Art Youth Employment Program Public Art Youth Employment Programs give teens and young adults full-time summer jobs and part-time jobs after school to create large-scale public art and multimedia projects. Youth Apprentices are guided by professional teaching artists 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.

Whole Foods Market asked Creative Art Works to create three large canvasses for their new Harlem location, opening later this year. The students decided to catpure the flavors of the past, present and future of this diverse and dynamic community which continues to be a magnate for writers, artists, musicians, restauranteurs, and progressive thingkers.

Back row: CAW Teaching Artist Vince Ballentin, Marcely Gomez , Julio Alvarez, Matthew Smart, Dorena Pink, Emilio Peralta Front row: Halima Benjamin, Billy “Mr. Apollo� Mitchell, Carla Mateo, Uriel Garcia Flores, David Sarpong 13

Left to Right: APRCHS Teacher Libany Martinez, Junior Tejeda, Ivan Sanchez, Christyn Liriano, Camila Llenas, Tyannys Rivas, Carla Mateo, Jefferson Nunez, Uriel Flores Garcia, Reny Marte, Marcely Gomez, Michelle Enriquez, Nathaly Tapia, CAW Teaching Artist Jaffia Royes Not pictured, Juan Cruz, Emilio Peralta, Malvin Gutierrez, Gisela Henriquez, Robert Vargas, Julio Alvarez Estevez, Enmanuel Arias Payano, David Belliard, Yara Castro, Biannelsy Felix, Kimberly Geraldino, Victor Gomez, Rashell Hernandez, Amy Rosario, Whillmin Rosario, Jorge Acosta, Rosemary Cordero, Michelle De Paula, Jeferson Guerra, Jeylin Lopez, Daniela Mora, Luz Perez, Joan Santana, Maria Suazo, Brian Tiburcio, Danielys Vargas

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Dual Langurage Integrated Learning Our Story so far... (Nuestra historia hasta ahora) Last fall, APRCH began a Dual Language Learning program as part of the New York City Department of Education’s initiative to increase bilingual education across the City. About half the students in this two-way bilingual immersion program are native English speakers while the other half are English Language Learners and Spanish heritage speakers. Instruction is split evenly between the two languages.

Creative Art Works offered an art class in conjunction with this program. The integrated art projects were designed to enhance and amplify lessons in the core curriculum, and to teach fundamental story elements, such as theme, setting, mood and symbolism.

Readings included selections from English and Spanish literature, including Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) by Gabriel García Márquez; “No oyes ladrar los perros (No Dogs Bark),” by Juan Rulfo; “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson; and “Crossed the Line” by Russell Banks. Students read Sophocles' tragedy Antigone in both English and Spanish.

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Top Row: Anderson Vasquez, Mercedes Steele, CAW Teaching Artist Miah Artola Middle Row: Faeyah Muhammad, Nathalie Cabrera Bottom Row: Justin Leo Rivera, Louis Rivera

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Documentary Filmmaking Apprenticeship What Impact Has the Prison System Had on Your Life?

A significant portion of the population of New York City is either in prison, awaiting sentencing, on parole, or in some other way involved with the criminal justice system. This reality has a negative impact on those directly involved in the court system, but also their families and friends outside of prison, especially younger siblings. Although life behind bars has been documented in film and television, the indirect effects on the family of inmates have not been explored.

The goal of this program was to create a forum for the student body of APRCHS to share their experience through a short documentary film. For nine weeks, students learned the process of documentary filmmaking, including filming, editing, storyboarding, researching, and conducting interviews.

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Word self portraits, Ninth Grade Narrative Art

Portrait of Antigone, Dual Language Integrated Learning

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Clay impressions, Forensic Art

Student Gallery Your

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Sugary Drink Posters, Food Countermarketing

Harlem Today, Whole Foods Market Harlem Youth Employment Program

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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.

Creative Art Works is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, EIN #13-3638436 Copyright Š 2017 Creative Art Works. All rights reserved.

520 Eighth Avenue, Suite 201A New York, NY 10018 646.424.0392

www.creativeartworks.org

These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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