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Intergenerational Art Education: Building Community In Harlem, Angela M. La Porte
Intergenerational Art Education: Building Community In Harlem, Angela M. La Porte
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
I began the first of 43 visits to an after-school intergenerational art program in Lower East Harlem, New York, with the expectation of a straight-forward research project, one which would perhaps ratify my growing conviction that young people and older adults together would provide a natural learning environment for art. My first personal encounter with the Lower East Harlem community began when I crossed 96th Street, an informal boundary separating its decaying tenements and public housing projects from the newer, more prosperous neighborhood to the south. I soon realized that there was no need for a line on the map …
When The Bough Breaks: Loss Of Tradition In The Urban Landscape, Esther Parada
When The Bough Breaks: Loss Of Tradition In The Urban Landscape, Esther Parada
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Considering the theme of this conference – wide-open spaces – has prompted me to think about my life history in terms of landscape/environments: the first eighteen years of my life were spent in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is set in the gently rolling Grand River Valley of western Michigan; the next four years were at Swarthmore College, amidst the narrow winding roads and lush vegetation of suburban Philadelphia. In the mid-60’s I spent two and one-half years at nine-thousand feet in the spectacular Bolivian Andes, as a Peace Corps volunteer art teacher (I’d never seen mountains before the summer we …