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Seeing the Big Picture
Seeing the Big Picture

“I like the way I’m growing as a person. I never used to listen to anybody. I never wanted to do what I was supposed to do, but now I understand as you get older, a whole lot of things change. You’ve got to move different.”

– CAW Youth Apprentice Deysean Nesbit

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empowerment, integrated, Mural, out-of-school time, Public Art Youth Employment Program, Summer Programs, SYEPBrian RicklinMadison Square Boys & Girls Club Pinkerton ClubhouseArt, art education, arted, Bill_Perkins, Community, empowerment, engagement, Harlem, Giants, Polo Grounds, Mural, public art, Public art employment, public art youth employment, madison square boys & Girls Club, Pinkerton Clubhouse, Tim McChristian, interview, summerjopbs2019, creatourfuture, youth apprentice, teamwork, creative art works, creativeartworks, workforce development, NYCHA, Willy Mays, public speaking, SYEP, NYCDYCD, NY City Council, payep, painting
Developing Character(s)
Developing Character(s)

“Kids at this age are perfectly ready to create stories. Characters spill from their brains. These characters might be the product of an active imagination, or a response to something they read in books or saw on TV, or they may possibly be a way of processing their own personal development.”

— CAW Teaching Artist Ayla Rexroth on student-created cartoon characters in the Cartoon and Anatomy program at Hamilton Grange Middle School.

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after-school, cartooning, cartoons, middle school, out-of-school time, Programming, public speaking, self-portraitDaniel Bergman, Program DirectorHamilton Grange Middle Schoolart education, arts, design, drawing, East Harlem, Harlem, Hamilton Grange, middle school, MS45, self-portrait, cartooning, cartoons, painting
Summer of Love at The Winter Garden
Summer of Love at The Winter Garden

“Corporate art can be very boring, because there’s a perceived expectation of what corporations want, which can be interpreted as sterile or somber. So, don't give us what you think we want. Don't give us stock photos. Be real. Be bold. Be honest. Challenge our expectations.”

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There Are No Mistakes: A Conversation with Teaching Artist Zack Podgorny
There Are No Mistakes: A Conversation with Teaching Artist Zack Podgorny

As an undergraduate, I studied with Stanley Whitney, who taught me to embrace the unpredictable nature of color. Stanley said you have to admit that some things are beyond your control. When your paints don’t do what you want them to do, you have to turn that into an opportunity. That’s one of the axioms in my classroom, “There are no mistakes in art!”

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middle school, OST, out-of-school time, Out-of-school-timeScott Lucas, Marketing & Communications Managerart education, active learning, caw4kids, creativeartworks, creative youth development, drawing, painting, education, DYCD, middle school, Ydanis Rodriguez, Inwood, NYC, art, Mark Levine, youth development, mistakes