Harlem as Told by Bearden
Harlem is a web of Black connections. Harlem is a place where Black artists, travelers, professionals, and business owners live alongside each other in community.
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Harlem is a web of Black connections. Harlem is a place where Black artists, travelers, professionals, and business owners live alongside each other in community.
The sixteen artists featured in the exhibition Capturing the Echo: Expanding the Walls 2022 author their own accounts of our shared world. They are witnesses, participants, and muses.
In this Partners in Conversation, Studio Museum School & Community Partnership Manager Jennifer Harley speaks with Kahmia Moise, a long-time staff member at the Ali Forney Center Drop-In Center in Harlem.
Partners in Conversation is an interview series that highlights the Studio Museum’s partnership educators, school leadership, artists, and community organization staff. These interviews seek to document and archive their experiences and to share their stories—in their own words—of connecting to the Studio Museum, Harlem, and artists of African descent.
As a means of gathering feedback on the new sculptural presence, Thomas J Price: Witness, in the neighborhood, the Studio Museum’s Education staff interviewed several park-goers and participants in a writing workshop program.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is excited to introduce the first in a series of pocketbooks that will explore connections between artworks by artists of African descent, largely from our permanent collection. We are thrilled to be collaborating with our School & Community Partners—this pocketbook edition was created with our ongoing Community Partner, the Ali Forney Drop-In Center in Harlem.
When people think about mental health and wellness, museums might not be the first thought that comes to mind. Even as I was studying to become an art therapist, I never considered museums as a site for therapeutic practice.
With excerpts from former Director of Education and Public Programming and ETW founder, Sandra Jackson-Dumont's original ETW proposal, Education Director, Shanta Lawson, reflects on the past, present, and future legacy of ETW.
Ginny Huo, Senior Coordinator, Teen Programs, shares how she creates space for teens to be respected, heard, and seen.
I have seen how change begins through healing and as an art therapist and educator, I am deeply interested in creating space for healing.
Mirror/Echo/Tilt (2019), an exhibition by Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and 2018–19