High School Students Get A WorldView at The WEX

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Puffin West is always inspired by the excellence in educational programming that the Wexner Center for the Arts has brought to our community as part of their Mission for the past 25 years!  Once again a PFW GRANT will ensure that high school students from throughout the Columbus metro area can take part in an innovative teen program entitled WorldView. This year’s program will address Cultural Intersections with Image and Identity. WorldView students will be led by an esteemed panel of OSU professors who explore identity, social justice and how images affect our understanding of race and civil right.  Drs. Maurice Stevens, of the Dept. of Comparative Studies, Leslie Alexander, an historian in the Dept. of African and African American Studies, and Joni Acuff of the Dept. of Art Education will discuss with the students cross-cultural understanding, perspectives, and influences contemporary artists use in their work. The students will view a number of exhibitions on the OSU Campus being: The Long March: Civil Rights in Cartoons and Comics at the newly opened Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, and they will also view the artwork from March: Book 1, Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, by U.S. Congressman John Lewis’ graphic memoir They will then go to The Thompson Library’s exhibition to see Remembering the Act: Archival Reflections on Civil Rights, which provides a frank appraisal of the prevailing racial inequalities faced by minority residents of Columbus, including African American students at Ohio State and finally   the award-winning film by director Thomas Allen Harris, Through a Lens Darkly will also be screened for the students. This film takes the movie-goer on an historical look at the way black photographers and their subjects have used film for social change. More at:

htwexarts.org/public-programs/worldview-cultural-intersections-image-and-identity

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