Event
Professional Development for Teachers
06/05/2014
9:30AM
Professional Development for Teachers
Join artist Constantina Zavitsanos and New Museum staff on Thursday June 4 for a professional development seminar for high school teachers that will address topics broached during Zavitsanos’s Research & Development artist residency.
Zavitsanos works with sculpture, performance, text, and sound. Her art deals with issues of debt and dependency, and investigates how intimate economies and fugitive relations might transform processes of distribution and exchange. Zavitsanos attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and has exhibited works at Slought Foundation, Philadelphia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City; Hessel Museum of Art, CSS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson; and MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City. She will participate in Arika’s “Episode 7” in Glasgow, Scotland, this spring. “Other Forms of Conviviality,” her essay and performance scores written with Park McArthur, was published in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Zavitsanos lives in New York and teaches at the New School.
Morning Session
9:30 AM: Registration
10 AM–12 PM: Join Zavitsanos for an artist presentation
Afternoon Session
$5, payable on the day of the workshop
1 PM: Join New Museum educators to explore the artworks and concepts introduced in the morning session. Through a closer look at the featured exhibition and the hands-on workshop, participants will learn dynamic activities for engaging with contemporary art in the classroom.
The New Museum welcomes educators of all disciplines, but this program is geared toward high school teachers. Reservations are honored on a first-come, first-served basis. Workshop space is limited.
RSVP required. RSVP HERE!
Contact gclass@newmuseum.org or 212.219.1222 ×231 with questions.
Sponsors
Generous lead support is provided by the Keith Haring School, Teen, and Family Programs Fund.
The Global Classroom is made possible, in part, by the Bloomingdale’s Fund of the Macy’s Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Endowment support provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Additional endowment support provided by the JPMorgan Chase Professional Development Workshop Program for Teachers.
The New Museum’s Experimental Study Program is made possible by Westfield World Trade Center.
