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Collaborate with incarcerated teens at the New York State Brookwood Secure Center to construct visual proposals for imaginary future worlds.
About this event
As artists, how can we help support & collaborate with the visions of those who have been forcibly rendered out of sight & those who have no access to the internet & other virtual tools to connect their visions to the outside world? Incarcerated teens at the New York State Brookwood Secure Center were asked to describe their visions for an imaginary future world-realistic, aspirational or fictional (sci-fi, utopian etc.) & to describe the environments, architectures, places, resources & people in them.
Following an introduction to the history of her work with New York State Juvenile Correctional Facilities by Tech Resident Alum Maggie Hazen, participants will collaborate with these visions by constructing visual proposals for these worlds. Proposals will incorporate digital platforms such as e-books, websites & virtual renderings & have the opportunity to be published.
Date: This in-person workshop will meet on Tuesday, 10/11 from 7-9pm & virtually on Thursday October 13 from 7-9pm.
Audience: Open to all.
Price: Free
Materials: Supplies will be provided.
Maggie Hazen is a New York based visual artist from Los Angeles & has cultivated a diverse artistic practice which includes sculpture, video, collage & performance. She is a founder & member of the Columbia Collective where she co-authors projects with young incarcerated artists at the formerly titled Columbia Secure Center for Girls. Hazen's work explores themes of resistance & healing in a cinematically real world of violence through complex images, videos, & sculptures that merge mythology, technology, & advocacy.
She has exhibited, screened & performed works at The Bronx Museum (New York), Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play (Miami), The Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge (Brooklyn), The Granoff Center (Brown University), Performance Works Northwest (Portland), CICA Museum (South Korea), & The Boston Young Contemporaries (Boston); among others. She has had residencies & fellowships at Pioneer Works (New York); The Bronx Museum (New York), The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (China), The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, European Graduate School (Switzerland), I:O at the Helikon Art Center (Turkey), Vermont Studio Center (Vermont) & The Pasadena Side Street Projects (California). She holds a BFA in sculpture from Biola University & an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design & has taught at New York University, The Stevens Institute of Technology, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art & is currently a professor at Bard College in Studio Arts.
Currently, she is working to build the Juvenile Justice Arts & Media Network a501c3 arts & media production platform supporting decarceration, education & the creative freedom of incarcerated youth.
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