GETTY / HAAT PHOTOWORKS PROJECT
"LA & East LA: Cultural Intersections"
A Getty Museum "Pacific Standard Time" Exhibit
Exhibition of 31 HAAT Students' Photos
Saturday, December 3
@
Getty Museum
Info/ PR About HAAT/ Getty Student Show:
Project Website & Videos of Students (by CGU)
Press Release:
Student Photos:
Click here for Gallery & Slide Show
HAAT Faculty Contacts
Joan Dooley, Digital Imaging Instructor
Lonee Lona, English Instructor
Sonia Herrera, Social Studies Instructor
Debbie Tompson, Principal
31 HAAT seniors
participated in a photo project
culminating in an exhibit at the Getty Musuem:
Getty Photoworks Mentor
Eilleen's 10-25 Workshop #2 with HAAT students:
Project Description
Getty Museum Community Photoworks Program, Fall 2011:
a collaboration between
>> J. Paul Getty Museum’s Education Department
>> LAEP (Los Angeles Education Partnership)
>> 826LA, the nonprofit arts and writing center
&
>> HAAT HS (the Humanitas Academy of Art and Technology).
HAAT HS is a Title One high school in East LA’s one-year-old Estaban Torres complex of five high schools, the first new school complex built to serve East LA in 80 years (part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.). HAAT uses an arts-based Humanitas instructional model that offers students, the majority of them from low income and minority backgrounds, the opportunity to participate in a challenging, interdisciplinary learning experience organized around relevant themes that encourage critical thinking, writing and verbal skills, using art media as inspiration and focus. (For more info on Humanitas see: http://www.laep.org/humanitas/
HAAT Photoworks Project Theme: LA Culture, Focusing on The Cultures of East LA: Examining Intersections of Political, Social, and Personal Values through Photography
Project Goals & Objectives
- To deepen students’ understanding of art by allowing them to respond with their own photography
- To explore connections between writing and art
- To introduce students to the formal elements and principles of art, as well as the formal choices made by professional photographers, through a pre-visit lesson as outlined in the curriculum, Exploring Photographs
- To guide students through a current exhibition of photography at the Getty Center and coach them in applying the techniques, approaches, and/or themes used by the exhibiting artist(s)
- To introduce students to a practicing artist and facilitate a dialogue between them
- To give students the opportunity to apply formal elements and principles of art (line, shape, balance, variety, etc.) as well as photography techniques (lighting, composition, etc.) by using disposable cameras
- To coach students in preparing artist's statements about their work
Program Details:
- The program begins with an in-class pre-visit introducing the methods and analysis of photography.
- Free bus transportation to and from the Museum is provided to the partner school(s)
- Students view a current exhibit of photography at the Getty Center; if possible, an exhibiting artist is invited to speak with the students at the Getty.
- The program continues with a minimum of two in-class workshops, in which the students supplement their photography by preparing artist's statements about their work in cooperation with Volunteer Tutors from 826LA.
- The program will culminates in an exhibit ion of students’ work at the Getty Museum.
Key Collaborator
LAEP (Humanitas Educational Model)
HAAT HS uses an arts-based Humanitas instructional model that offers students the opportunity to participate in a challenging, interdisciplinary learning experience organized around relevant themes that encourage critical thinking, writing and verbal skills, using art media as inspiration and focus.
Getty Project Events
Oct 3: Workshop #1 with Eileen Cowin @ HAAT HS
Oct 25: Workshop #1 with Eileen Cowin @ the Getty Museum
Nov 7, 14, 21: Three hour-long writing workshops @ HAAT HS
(826LA mentors help students write their Artist Statements)
Dec 3: Exhibit @ the Getty Museum
Additional HAAT Events to Support Students
(organized by J. Dooley, HAAT photo instructor)
Oct 20: Day-long photo workshops exploring East LA & Downtown LA
7 mentor photographers/ group leaders:
Joan Dooley, Diana Maria Felix (Otis College of Art Photo student), Eric Ibarra (founder ofLos Fotos Project), Angel Nava (Photographer & brother to HAAT student), Kelly Ness (Long Beach City College Photo student), Jessica Shokrian, Jexy Wadle (HAAT Lead Teacher & English Instructor)
Oct 26, Nov 2, & Nov 7: Three 2-hour crit sessions including
one-on-one mentorship re: image selection and editing
5 mentor photographers/ group leaders:
Rudi Bianchi (photography collector), Joan Dooley, Karen Farrah Oswald, Christopher Barbour,
Nov 3: Two 2-hour sessions:
Michael Dooley, Diana Maria Felix (Otis photo student)