Create Change
Below is a select list of past guest speakers and workshop facilitators
JACKIE BATTENFIELD, ARTIST, ARTS ADMINISTRATOR, WRITER
Learning the Tools of Promotion
In this workshop, partcipants discussed the tools of promotion, participated in short communication exercises and addressed best practices around promoting their public art projects.
Jackie Battenfield, author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What you Love, is an artist who has supported herself from art sales for over twenty years, teaches career development programs for visual artists at the Creative Capital Foundation and at Columbia University. She was also the founder and first director of the Rotunda Gallery from 1981-1989 (now the BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn) and The Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program Leader for 15 years. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award (1991) and the Warren Tanner Award (1996).
Learning the Tools of Promotion
In this workshop, partcipants discussed the tools of promotion, participated in short communication exercises and addressed best practices around promoting their public art projects.
Jackie Battenfield, author of The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What you Love, is an artist who has supported herself from art sales for over twenty years, teaches career development programs for visual artists at the Creative Capital Foundation and at Columbia University. She was also the founder and first director of the Rotunda Gallery from 1981-1989 (now the BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn) and The Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program Leader for 15 years. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award (1991) and the Warren Tanner Award (1996).
PATRICIA BEIRNE, DESIGN STRATEGIST AND EDUCATOR
Writing Workshop: Writing for Multiple Audiences
This workshop invited participants to explore writing about their work for different audiences, including a local community, an art institution, and a potential partner.
Patricia Beirne is a design strategist and educator whose work investigates design as a tool for social change. Patricia teaches studios and seminars across several departments at Parsons The New School for Design where she also coordinates the Product Design Department’s senior thesis curriculum. Through her work with graduating seniors at Parsons, Patricia focuses on helping these emerging designers articulate how design creates more than commercial value by supporting communities and social missions.
Writing Workshop: Writing for Multiple Audiences
This workshop invited participants to explore writing about their work for different audiences, including a local community, an art institution, and a potential partner.
Patricia Beirne is a design strategist and educator whose work investigates design as a tool for social change. Patricia teaches studios and seminars across several departments at Parsons The New School for Design where she also coordinates the Product Design Department’s senior thesis curriculum. Through her work with graduating seniors at Parsons, Patricia focuses on helping these emerging designers articulate how design creates more than commercial value by supporting communities and social missions.
COLLETTE BLANCHARD, OWNER, COLLETTE BLANCHARD GALLERY
Portfolio Review
Partcipants met with Gallerist Collette Blanchard for one-on-one critiques of the public art projects they were developing.
Collette Blanchard is Owner and Director of Collette Blanchard Gallery located in the Lower East Side. The gallery currently represents such artists as Suntek Chung, Sean Higgins, Yeni Mao, Paul Mullins, and Jessica Ann Peavy. She was the former Director at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York City. Collette was recently honored by the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation at the Gold Rush Awards that took place at The Red Bull Space last March.
Portfolio Review
Partcipants met with Gallerist Collette Blanchard for one-on-one critiques of the public art projects they were developing.
Collette Blanchard is Owner and Director of Collette Blanchard Gallery located in the Lower East Side. The gallery currently represents such artists as Suntek Chung, Sean Higgins, Yeni Mao, Paul Mullins, and Jessica Ann Peavy. She was the former Director at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York City. Collette was recently honored by the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation at the Gold Rush Awards that took place at The Red Bull Space last March.
NICOLE J. CARUTH, WRITER AND INDEPENDENT CURATOR
Writing Workshop: Artist Statements for Different Audiences
In this workshop Caruth facilitated a writing clinic to workshop each participant's artist statement, resume, and promotional language for their Create Change projects
Nicole J. Caruth is a Brooklyn-based writer and independent curator with an emphasis in contemporary visual art and culture. Caruth frequently contributes to …might be good, a contemporary art e-journal produced by Fluent~Collaborative, and the Art21 Blog. Her writing has also been published by the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; CUE Art Foundation; NYFA Current; Gastronomica; and Nka (forthcoming). Her personal blog, Contemporary Confections, merges two of her greatest loves: contemporary art and sweet foodstuffs.
Writing Workshop: Artist Statements for Different Audiences
In this workshop Caruth facilitated a writing clinic to workshop each participant's artist statement, resume, and promotional language for their Create Change projects
Nicole J. Caruth is a Brooklyn-based writer and independent curator with an emphasis in contemporary visual art and culture. Caruth frequently contributes to …might be good, a contemporary art e-journal produced by Fluent~Collaborative, and the Art21 Blog. Her writing has also been published by the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; CUE Art Foundation; NYFA Current; Gastronomica; and Nka (forthcoming). Her personal blog, Contemporary Confections, merges two of her greatest loves: contemporary art and sweet foodstuffs.
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY, ARIF ULLAH
Community Organizing
This workshop addressed the fundamentals of community organizing, which include: issue identification, establishing a purpose and vision, strategic planning, organizing outreach and participation, evaluation, and leading community meetings.
Arif Ullah is the Director of Neighborhood Resources for the Citizens Committee for New York City. Through the Citizens Committee, Ullah facilitates skill-building workshops and delivers project planning assistance to volunteer-driven grassroots groups in low-income neighborhoods.
Citizens Committee for New York City is the only organization in New York City to offer funding to grassroots groups working on quality-of-life issues. For over 35 years, they have supported volunteer-led neighborhood groups across the five boroughs that carry out community improvement projects in the most underserved neighborhood.
Community Organizing
This workshop addressed the fundamentals of community organizing, which include: issue identification, establishing a purpose and vision, strategic planning, organizing outreach and participation, evaluation, and leading community meetings.
Arif Ullah is the Director of Neighborhood Resources for the Citizens Committee for New York City. Through the Citizens Committee, Ullah facilitates skill-building workshops and delivers project planning assistance to volunteer-driven grassroots groups in low-income neighborhoods.
Citizens Committee for New York City is the only organization in New York City to offer funding to grassroots groups working on quality-of-life issues. For over 35 years, they have supported volunteer-led neighborhood groups across the five boroughs that carry out community improvement projects in the most underserved neighborhood.
MATTHEW DELEGET, ARTIST, CURATOR
Web Tools: Making Your Projects More Public
This workshop introduced a number of ways that artists can integrate the web to increase their project's visibility and participation.
Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter and curator. Matthew has received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Golden Rule Foundation. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Basler Zeitung, among others. Matthew co-founded and directs MINUS SPACE, a curatorial project based in Brooklyn, NY, presenting innovative reductive art by international artists working in all media. Matthew also works at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), where he oversees NYFA's Information & Research Department, including the foundation's web site, artist magazine, learning area, and other information programs for artists. Matthew holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Web Tools: Making Your Projects More Public
This workshop introduced a number of ways that artists can integrate the web to increase their project's visibility and participation.
Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter and curator. Matthew has received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Golden Rule Foundation. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Basler Zeitung, among others. Matthew co-founded and directs MINUS SPACE, a curatorial project based in Brooklyn, NY, presenting innovative reductive art by international artists working in all media. Matthew also works at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), where he oversees NYFA's Information & Research Department, including the foundation's web site, artist magazine, learning area, and other information programs for artists. Matthew holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
THEASTER GATES, ARTIST
Between Projects, Objects and People: Trekking from the Museum World Back to My Country
This workshop attempted to layout a platform that creates ways of accepting the complexity of your interests as reasonable playing field for public discourse, creative practice, and survival tactics in contemporary art’s museum and gallery sectors.
Theaster Gates began working with many of Chicago's arts-based community organizations as both artist-teacher and administrator. As an artist, he has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI); Pulitzer Museum of Art (St. Louis, MO); and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), and with group exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL). He recently contributed to the 2010 Whitney Biennial’s Cosmology of Yard project this past February.
Between Projects, Objects and People: Trekking from the Museum World Back to My Country
This workshop attempted to layout a platform that creates ways of accepting the complexity of your interests as reasonable playing field for public discourse, creative practice, and survival tactics in contemporary art’s museum and gallery sectors.
Theaster Gates began working with many of Chicago's arts-based community organizations as both artist-teacher and administrator. As an artist, he has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI); Pulitzer Museum of Art (St. Louis, MO); and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), and with group exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands and the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL). He recently contributed to the 2010 Whitney Biennial’s Cosmology of Yard project this past February.
KEMI ILESANMI, DIRECTOR, GRANTS & SERVICES, CREATIVE CAPITAL
Financial Support: Project Finance + Funding
This workshop introduced residents to the process of researching and applying for grants, as well as exploring other possible funding streams.
Prior to joining Creative Capital in 2004, Kemi Ilesanmi was a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she organized several exhibitions, including To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander and The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art. She also ran the Walker's visual arts residency program, working with artists such as Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Julie Mehretu, and Christian Marclay. She is on the board of The Laundromat Project, an arts and social change organization in New York City. She holds a BA in Afro-American Studies from Smith College.
Financial Support: Project Finance + Funding
This workshop introduced residents to the process of researching and applying for grants, as well as exploring other possible funding streams.
Prior to joining Creative Capital in 2004, Kemi Ilesanmi was a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she organized several exhibitions, including To/From: Rivane Neuenschwander and The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art. She also ran the Walker's visual arts residency program, working with artists such as Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Julie Mehretu, and Christian Marclay. She is on the board of The Laundromat Project, an arts and social change organization in New York City. She holds a BA in Afro-American Studies from Smith College.
ANDRE LANCASTER, DIRECTOR, FREEDOM TRAIN PRODUCTIONS
Strategies in Oral History Collection
With Selly K. Thiam of None on Record, Lancaster discussed strategies in oral history collection. Pulling from his experience working with StoryCorps and his organization Freedom Train Productions, which is a black queer theater company dedicated to political art and social activism that engages artists and audiences, Lancaster offered approaches in oral history collection for residents to incorporate in their Create Change projects.
Andre Lancaster is a freelance stage director and founding Artistic Director of Freedom Train Productions. His stage direction has been performed at Winnipeg Fringe Festival, The Tank, HERE Arts Center, WOW Cafe Theatre, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Hyde Park Theatre, The Lab Theatre at the University of Texas at Austin, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, the Juilliard School. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a distinguished visitor at Rites and Reason Theatre (Brown University), an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and an OSI Foundation/NYU Wagner NYC Social Justice Fellow.
Strategies in Oral History Collection
With Selly K. Thiam of None on Record, Lancaster discussed strategies in oral history collection. Pulling from his experience working with StoryCorps and his organization Freedom Train Productions, which is a black queer theater company dedicated to political art and social activism that engages artists and audiences, Lancaster offered approaches in oral history collection for residents to incorporate in their Create Change projects.
Andre Lancaster is a freelance stage director and founding Artistic Director of Freedom Train Productions. His stage direction has been performed at Winnipeg Fringe Festival, The Tank, HERE Arts Center, WOW Cafe Theatre, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Hyde Park Theatre, The Lab Theatre at the University of Texas at Austin, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, the Juilliard School. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a distinguished visitor at Rites and Reason Theatre (Brown University), an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and an OSI Foundation/NYU Wagner NYC Social Justice Fellow.
MAPP INTERNATIONAL
The America Project
MAPP International presented Sekou Sundiata's American Project, which was conceived on in 2001 as a shared contemplation of America's national identity, its power in the world, and its guiding mythologies.
MAPP International Productions provides support and opportunities for challenging artistic voices to be fully heard and engaged by bringing together arts, humanities and public dialogue. MAPP is dedicated to developing functional, sustainable environments for artists to create, premiere and tour performing arts projects.
The America Project
MAPP International presented Sekou Sundiata's American Project, which was conceived on in 2001 as a shared contemplation of America's national identity, its power in the world, and its guiding mythologies.
MAPP International Productions provides support and opportunities for challenging artistic voices to be fully heard and engaged by bringing together arts, humanities and public dialogue. MAPP is dedicated to developing functional, sustainable environments for artists to create, premiere and tour performing arts projects.
PRERANA REDDY, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC EVENTS, QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
Museum as a Social Agent: Queens Museum of Art's Corazón de Corona/Heart of Corona Initiative
Reddy was invited to share the projects that she organized for the Queens Museum of Art's Corazón de Corona/Heart of Corona initiative. The initiative was launched to improve the health of residents, and to activate and beautify Corona's public space in order to create a better quality of life for residents. Reddy discussed the book A Healthy Taste of Corona - a bi-lingual, 150-page cookbook featuring recipes for much of the fare found in Corona with recipes contributed by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, Mets General Manager Omar Minaya, and more than 30 favorite local officials, community leaders and restaurateurs. She also discussed Corona Plaza Center of Everywhere, a public art commissioning project which invited eight artists over two years to mount public art projects for Corona residents. Reddy's presentation positioned the museum as an institution and agent for social change.
Prerana Reddy is the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art, where she organizes screenings, performances and talks, as well as overseeing its community outreach programs. She received her MA in Cinema Studies at New York University and is a co-founder and programming collective member of 3rd I NY, which exhibits South Asian film & video on a monthly basis. She is also a documentary filmmaker whose work has explored such topics as alternatives to juvenile detention and the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. She currently sits on the board of Alwan for the Arts and is the director of their annual New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival. She also completed a three-year term on the board of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective. Prior to working at the Queens Museum, she was a curator and program administrator for the New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
Museum as a Social Agent: Queens Museum of Art's Corazón de Corona/Heart of Corona Initiative
Reddy was invited to share the projects that she organized for the Queens Museum of Art's Corazón de Corona/Heart of Corona initiative. The initiative was launched to improve the health of residents, and to activate and beautify Corona's public space in order to create a better quality of life for residents. Reddy discussed the book A Healthy Taste of Corona - a bi-lingual, 150-page cookbook featuring recipes for much of the fare found in Corona with recipes contributed by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, Mets General Manager Omar Minaya, and more than 30 favorite local officials, community leaders and restaurateurs. She also discussed Corona Plaza Center of Everywhere, a public art commissioning project which invited eight artists over two years to mount public art projects for Corona residents. Reddy's presentation positioned the museum as an institution and agent for social change.
Prerana Reddy is the Director of Public Events at the Queens Museum of Art, where she organizes screenings, performances and talks, as well as overseeing its community outreach programs. She received her MA in Cinema Studies at New York University and is a co-founder and programming collective member of 3rd I NY, which exhibits South Asian film & video on a monthly basis. She is also a documentary filmmaker whose work has explored such topics as alternatives to juvenile detention and the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. She currently sits on the board of Alwan for the Arts and is the director of their annual New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival. She also completed a three-year term on the board of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective. Prior to working at the Queens Museum, she was a curator and program administrator for the New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
SERGIO MUNOZ SARMIENTO, ESQ., ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS
Artist Rights and Liabilities: Conducting Art in the Public Sphere
This workshop featured lawyer and artist Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento who lectured on the artist’s rights and liabilities when making work within the public sphere.
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist and writer interested in cultural production stemming from the relationship between art and law, specifically conceptual and new genre practices as they relate to intellectual property, property law, and the First Amendment. His work has been shown nationally and internationally with published essays and projects in Cabinet Magazine (US), Law Text Culture (Australia), Afterall (US/UK), and Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left (US). He received his BA in Art from the University of Texas-El Paso, was awarded a Philip Morris Fellowship to attend the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his MFA in Art, and was a Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in Studio Art. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2006.
Artist Rights and Liabilities: Conducting Art in the Public Sphere
This workshop featured lawyer and artist Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento who lectured on the artist’s rights and liabilities when making work within the public sphere.
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist and writer interested in cultural production stemming from the relationship between art and law, specifically conceptual and new genre practices as they relate to intellectual property, property law, and the First Amendment. His work has been shown nationally and internationally with published essays and projects in Cabinet Magazine (US), Law Text Culture (Australia), Afterall (US/UK), and Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left (US). He received his BA in Art from the University of Texas-El Paso, was awarded a Philip Morris Fellowship to attend the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his MFA in Art, and was a Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in Studio Art. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2006.
DREAD SCOTT, ARTIST
Making Your Public Art Projects More Public Using the Web
This workshop addressed strategies in increasing web traffic to an artist's website and offers tools and brief how-tos for building a successful participatory-based website that can further develop an existing participatory project that does not already live on the web.
Dread Scott is a revolutionary artist whose mediums include installation, photography, screen printing, video and performance. Scott received national attention in 1989 when his artwork What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? was declared “disgraceful” by President George H. W. Bush and denounced by the U.S. Senate. Some recent work has been exhibited at PS1/MoMA, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands.
Making Your Public Art Projects More Public Using the Web
This workshop addressed strategies in increasing web traffic to an artist's website and offers tools and brief how-tos for building a successful participatory-based website that can further develop an existing participatory project that does not already live on the web.
Dread Scott is a revolutionary artist whose mediums include installation, photography, screen printing, video and performance. Scott received national attention in 1989 when his artwork What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag? was declared “disgraceful” by President George H. W. Bush and denounced by the U.S. Senate. Some recent work has been exhibited at PS1/MoMA, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands.
RASHID SHABAZZ, PROGRAM OFFICER, CAMPAIGN FOR BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT, OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE- U.S. PROGRAMS
Create Change via Community Partnerships
In this workshop, Shabazz discussed various approaches to developing community partners to resident's Create Change projects.
Rashid Shabazz has over 15 years of experience as a grassroots media & communications organizer, youth development advocate, and dedicated activist against mass incarceration and prison expansion. He has been a contributing writer for several publications, including The Source and Trace magazines, the New Haven Advocate, the Huffington Post, the Future 500: Youth Organizing and Activism in the United States, and many others. He holds a B.A. in English from George Mason University, an M.A. in African studies from Yale University and an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Create Change via Community Partnerships
In this workshop, Shabazz discussed various approaches to developing community partners to resident's Create Change projects.
Rashid Shabazz has over 15 years of experience as a grassroots media & communications organizer, youth development advocate, and dedicated activist against mass incarceration and prison expansion. He has been a contributing writer for several publications, including The Source and Trace magazines, the New Haven Advocate, the Huffington Post, the Future 500: Youth Organizing and Activism in the United States, and many others. He holds a B.A. in English from George Mason University, an M.A. in African studies from Yale University and an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
SELLY K. THIAM, FOUNDER, NONE ON RECORD
Strategies in Oral History Collection
With Andre Lancaster of Freedom Train Productions, Thiam was invited to present her project None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa as a successful platform for oral history collection. None on Record is a sound documentary that collects the stories of queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (QLGBT) Africans from the African Continent and the Diaspora.
Selly K. Thiam is a queer identified Senegalese woman born in Chicago. She is an independent journalist and oral historian.Selly is the founder of the None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa oral history project. None On Record Stories of Queer Africa was originally created in 2006 as a sound documentary project that collects the stories of Africans from the continent and within Diasporic communities.
Strategies in Oral History Collection
With Andre Lancaster of Freedom Train Productions, Thiam was invited to present her project None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa as a successful platform for oral history collection. None on Record is a sound documentary that collects the stories of queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (QLGBT) Africans from the African Continent and the Diaspora.
Selly K. Thiam is a queer identified Senegalese woman born in Chicago. She is an independent journalist and oral historian.Selly is the founder of the None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa oral history project. None On Record Stories of Queer Africa was originally created in 2006 as a sound documentary project that collects the stories of Africans from the continent and within Diasporic communities.
URBAN BUSH WOMEN, PALOMA MCGREGOR
Entering, Building and Exiting Community
Entering, Building and Exiting Community teaches others to enter a community by first asking community members to express what they want to see accomplished instead of entering with predetermined assumptions about participation, project themes or goals. The workshop also invited participants to consider their own agency when working in communities whether it was their own or someone else's.
Paloma McGregor is a member of the Urban Bush Women dance company.
Urban Bush Women seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and based in Brooklyn, Urban Bush Women aspire to ensure continuity by strengthening and expanding their international community via ongoing professional education, development of new audiences, nurturing young talent and presenting bold, life-affirming dance works in a variety of settings.
Entering, Building and Exiting Community
Entering, Building and Exiting Community teaches others to enter a community by first asking community members to express what they want to see accomplished instead of entering with predetermined assumptions about participation, project themes or goals. The workshop also invited participants to consider their own agency when working in communities whether it was their own or someone else's.
Paloma McGregor is a member of the Urban Bush Women dance company.
Urban Bush Women seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. Founded in 1984 by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and based in Brooklyn, Urban Bush Women aspire to ensure continuity by strengthening and expanding their international community via ongoing professional education, development of new audiences, nurturing young talent and presenting bold, life-affirming dance works in a variety of settings.
WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER, KAITLYN GREENRIDGE
Ethics and Strategies of Oral History Collection
This workshop addressed ethics and best practices of oral history collection.Using Weeksville Heritage Center collection strategies as a point of departure,participants explored techniques in collecting their own stories.
Kaitlyn Greenridge is a Research Associate at the Weeksville Heritage Center.
Weeksville Heritage Center is a cultural institution in the historic African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn. The center’s mission is to document, preserve and interpret the history of free African American communities in Weeksville and beyond, and to create and inspire innovative, contemporary uses of African American history through education, the arts and civic engagement.
Ethics and Strategies of Oral History Collection
This workshop addressed ethics and best practices of oral history collection.Using Weeksville Heritage Center collection strategies as a point of departure,participants explored techniques in collecting their own stories.
Kaitlyn Greenridge is a Research Associate at the Weeksville Heritage Center.
Weeksville Heritage Center is a cultural institution in the historic African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn. The center’s mission is to document, preserve and interpret the history of free African American communities in Weeksville and beyond, and to create and inspire innovative, contemporary uses of African American history through education, the arts and civic engagement.