Teaching Artist Ruth Wetzel is leading a group from GSS on a 10-week exploration of place. Last week, students visited the gallery to create site-specific maps using colored tape and paper on the floor. Their installations, part of a project called "This Land is Your Land," could represent actual places (Red Hook, greater NYC, hybrid combinations of boroughs and neighborhoods) or imagined utopias. Take a look at some of their elaborate locations!
At Red Hook Initiative, Teaching Artist Susan Hamburger is leading a group of 10 middle school-aged girls in a course focused on empowerment, confidence and self-expression. In the gallery, Susan challenged the girls to find elements of the self in the artworks of Seppey and Brouckaert-- how is the body reflected in Seppey's modified maps and in Brouckaert's abstract magazine installation? What does this say about the connections between identity, commodity and place? After discussing the work, students used the same materials employed by the artists to create their own abstract representations of self.
As always, thanks to our amazing partners for giving us the opportunity to work with these talented youth. We can't wait to see how they grow and progress as the 10-week programs continue.
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