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Literacy Through Photography: An Exhibit of Pictures and Writing
Emily Krzyzewski Center, 904 W. Chapel Hill Street, Durham, North Carolina
On display through May 28, 2008
Opening Reception: April 28, 6–8 p.m.
Presented by the Literacy Through Photography program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with Club Boulevard Elementary School, Durham, North Carolina
The Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program challenges children to explore their world as they photograph scenes from their lives and use their images as catalysts for verbal and written expression. The scenes are framed around four thematic explorations: self-portrait, community, family, and dreams. LTP promotes an expansive use of photography across different curricula and disciplines, building on the information that children naturally possess and connecting them with broader perspectives and ways of communicating. Students furthermore gain new ways of viewing themselves and their communities.
LTP was launched in 1990 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, working in collaboration with the Durham Public Schools. As part of the program, LTP staff members teach a multidisciplinary undergraduate course that includes a semester-long internship in the Durham Public Schools. During the spring of 2008 ten Duke students, along with six teachers at Club Boulevard Elementary School, carried out classroom-based LTP projects. More than 140 third- through fifth-graders participated. On display in this exhibition are their self-portraits, their community photographs, and their writings.
Participating Durham Teachers: Denise Baynham, Lisa Lord, Jennifer Medley, Stephen Mullaney, Erin Pattishall, Jennifer Triplehorn
Participating Duke Students: Shari Baker, Liz Brady, Anna Cassell, Teresa Cho, Priya Khatri, Jen Kozin, Lindsay Kunkle, Kaitlin Rogers, Michael Wood, Kathryn Wooten
MORE ABOUT LTP: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/ltp/
MORE ABOUT EMILY K CENTER: http://www.emilyk.org/
MORE ABOUT CDS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
Towards
a Promised Land
An installation made collaboratively with asylum seekers
and other migratory families
Margate, England
July 2005–July 2006
Towards a Promised Land involves a diverse range of young
people who have arrived on the Isle of Thanet from different parts
of England and beyond. Working with Wendy Ewald, the children learn,
through photography, to explore and understand their worlds and express
their experiences of relocation and the search for a better life.
Ewald has taken black-and-white portraits of the children and the
possessions they have brought with them, evocative of the homes and
lives they have left behind, whether in Belarussia, Belfast, Manchester,
or the Congo. The portraits will be enlarged and displayed as banners
in locations around Margate from July 2005 to July 2006.
A book resulting from the exhibition, Towards
a Promised Land, will be published by Steidl Verlag in December
2006.
PODCAST
Listen to the sound pieces that accompany the exhibition, in which
children perform their stories of migration to Margate.
01—Towards
a Promised Land (introduction)
02—The
Dreamland Tower
03—Dreamland
Welcomes You sign (goods entrance only)
04—Hall
by the Sea Road–cinema
05—Hall
by the Sea Road–Punch & Judy pub
06—Kingfisher
Fish & Chip Shop
07—Back
of Escape Club
08—Margate
Library
09—2,
Thanet Road
10—Margate
Sea Wall, nearest the pier (single banner)
11—Margate
Sea Wall, by the Lido
12—Margate
Sea Wall (single banner)
13—Margate
Sea Wall
14—Margate
Sea Wall, on the beach
Past Exhibitions
Secret
Games: Wendy Ewald, Collaborative Works with Children, 1969–1999
A retrospective featuring Wendy Ewald’s collaborative photographic
work with children in Canada, Colombia, India, South Africa, Holland,
Mexico, and the United States, exploring diverse ideas about self,
identity, and community
• Mint
Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina (February 11 – May 7,
2006)
• High
Musuem of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (August 28 – December 27,
2004)
• P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York, New York (January – March, 2003)
• Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (September 11
– December 6, 2002)
• Museum
of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
(June 21 – August 18, 2002)
• Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (January 18 – March 31,
2002)
• Addison
Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (September 4 –
December 30, 2001)
• Museet
for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark (April 6 – June 10, 2001)
• Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (January 30 – March 17, 2001)
• Foto Museum
Winterthur, Switzerland (April 8 – June 4, 2000)
Secret
Games is available for touring from the Addison Gallery.
Who
Am I? A Decade of Literacy Through Photography in Durham, 1990–2000
A teacher-curated exhibition of photography and writing by Durham
schoolchildren, demonstrating the power and importance of respectful
collaborations between teachers and students, parents and children,
community workers and their constituents, artists and schools, and
schools and art organizations
Who
Am I? A Decade of Literacy Through Photography in Durham 1990–2000 will be on exhibition at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina,
from September 17 to October 15, 2006.
Hand Workshop Art Center and Children’s Museum of Richmond
On
Site / Artists’ Projects: Wendy Ewald
Queens Museum of Art
The
Alphabet Project
The
Alphabet Project
is available for touring from the Queens Museum of Art.
Center for Documentary Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, and Durham
Art Guild
Three
Contemporary Artists in the Classroom: Collaborative Work with Durham
Students
banner image:
Photograph by Salvador Gómez Jiménez.
From Secret
Games: Collaborative Works with Children, 1969–1999
by Wendy Ewald.
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