COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS is a Photography & Imaging and Art and Public Policy program where NYU students teach digital photo-based image making to high school students from throughout NYC in the Photography and Imaging digital labs. Working in teams of two or three, the NYU students co-facilitate small workshops two afternoons a week with the teens. Digital cameras are provided for the high school students to photograph their families, friends, and communities to create photographic essays exploring their day-to-day lives, dreams, concerns, and social-political challenges. During course time for NYU students, focus is on workshop development, lesson planning, and discussion of changes, collaboration, and supervision.
Workshops are free and open to any New York City High School Student. Workshops begin in early February and run until early May.
The application period for the 2012 program is now closed.
If you would like to be notified about the Spring 2013 program, please click here.
We also have a summer high school program, please see http://specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/page/hsStudents.html for more information. Deadline to apply for Summer 2012 is February 6.
To find out more information about the program and to see past work by our teen participants, please visit www.photoandimaging.net/coco
The Community Collaborations website [www.photoandimaging.net/coco] and blog [photoandimagingcoco.blogspot.com] contain community-based art and media resources for students, teachers, artists, activists, and writers as well as offers a forum for discussing the possibilities for art in the public sphere.
Founded in 1996 by Lorie Novak, Community Collaborations is co-directed by Professors Lorie Novak and Erika deVries. Lorie Novak will directing the program in 2012. COCO is funded through the generosity of The Department of Photography & Imaging, the Tisch School of the Arts Talent Identification Program, and the NYU Office of Civic Engagement. Please feel free to contact us at tisch.photo.coco@nyu.edu.
