So proud of my baby boy Bugs, doing big things this year :)
Yesterday was the first day for the Jenner Speakerbox project that I’m photographing, and it went really well!
The project is a part of Columbia College’s outreach program, BIGArt. It aims to get Columbia’s first-year students more involved with local communities, while teaching art to students of the local public schools. For Jenner Speakerbox, we’re teaming up with students from Jenner, whose students (many of them) were residents of Cabrini Green who were displaced due to the recent demolition. We’re teaching them how to tell stories and conduct interviews so that they can discuss their experiences and, towards the end, interview their parents. Hopefully, this process will lead them to consider their history, where they are presently, and ultimately, where they would like to go in the future.
