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Marcel Ayewozanna This That Those and These, 2018 Digital chromogenic print Courtesy the artist
Exhibition
Developing Intention | Expanding the Walls 2018
13 Jul 2018 – 31 Aug 2018
Address
- 144 W 125th St
- New York
New York - 10027
- United States
Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community is an annual, eight-month residency at The Studio Museum in Harlem in which New York–area high school students explore the history and techniques of photography.
About
Through workshops, gallery visits, intensive darkroom training, and discussions led by contemporary artists, the students build community as they explore and define their individual practices. The James VanDerZee (1886–1983) archive—housed at the Studio Museum—has been the primary catalyst for the students' critical reflections on the representation of culture and community. The Expanding the Wallsprogram and exhibition continue to be impassioned considerations of VanDerZee's timeless themes and testaments to the Studio Museum's commitment to emerging artists.
Developing Intention: Expanding the Walls 2018 presents work by the fourteen young artists in the 2017–18 program and demonstrates their shared interest in experimenting with storytelling and the technical possibilities of photography. Developing Intention presents the culmination of their efforts to capture what they find to be significant in their daily surroundings. In this exhibition, many of the students emphasize the multiple narratives that can be conveyed through portraiture and the exploration of the human figure.
Developing Intention: Expanding the Walls 2018 is organized by Charmaine Branch and Nectar Knuckles, Joint Curatorial Fellows at The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Museum of Modern Art, with Ginny Huo, Expanding the Walls/Youth Programs Coordinator, and the 2017–18 Expanding the Walls students.
Developing Intention: Expanding the Walls 2018 is on view in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enter through the street-level entrance at Fifth Avenue and 81st Street.
