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Introduction

Black Self/White Self: Identity Explored Through Photography

Creating a Visual Spanish Alphabet

Explorative Writing About Interior Spaces

Introduction

In 1997 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) provided Literacy Through Photography with funding to place local artists and writers in LTP schools for the following school year. Artists and writers collaborated with teachers to create projects tailored to the curriculum of each class. The projects varied from writing poetry to making clay masks.

The artist-in-residence program had four goals. The first was to give the students and teachers an opportunity to interact with practicing artists. This gave both the teachers and the artists the chance to work one-on-one with another professional, sharing methods, ideas, and interests. Another goal was to allow the artists to develop new projects within an educational context. Furthermore, this project sought to increase the range of students’ visual literacy and written capabilities through an extension of LTP’s aims. A final goal was the creation of models that could be used in other public school classrooms in and beyond Durham. The booklet “Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects” (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998) was designed to provide educators with new arts-based approaches to learning, which may expand the terrain of any curriculum. (Three sections of the booklet are linked below.) An LTP curriculum book that includes several of the projects featured in “Artists in the Classroom” will be available in 2006.

See Black Self//White Self: Identity Explored Through Photography

See Creating a Visual Spanish Alphabet

See Explorative Writing About Interior Spaces

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Photograph by Wendy Ewald. From Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children, 1969–1999 by Wendy Ewald

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