PUFFIN WEST will be providing some funding for High School students from Marion Franklin and Linden McKinley to partake in a Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) program entitled Columbus In-Focus. CMA educators and visitng artists will work with these students both in the classroom and at the Museum to give them an understanding how photography is a tool that is able to capture our collective history, culture, and stories about our communities and ourselves. Students will be given a digital camera and will be challenged to document their own lives. These students will also have an indepth opportunity to meet and work with visiting artist Wing Young Huie (www.winfyounghuie.com) whose many photographic projects have documented socioeconomic and cultural realities of American life. In-Focus students will also have access to the the inspirational photographic exhibit The Radical Camera: New York’s Photographic League, 1936-1951 which opens April 19th. These photographs are a social documentary that reveal the gritty reality of daily life during the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the early years of the Cold War; particularly with images of NYC’s ethnically diverse neighborhoods. The photograph accompanying this announcement is part of that exhibit:
The Columbus In-Focus exhibition opening at CMA was fabulous! These teens, pictured above, have worked with teachers and visiting artists this entire school year and their work and this exhibition reflect not only their dedication but the dedication of everyone who made this program strong! Please visit the In-Focus exhibit when you go see the must see show The Radical Camera at the Museum.
(Jerome Liebling: Butterfly Boy, New York, 1949, Gelatin silver print, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Photo League Collection
Museum Purchase with funds provided by Elizabeth M. Ross, the Derby Fund, John S. and Catherine Chapin Kobacker, and the Friends of the Photo League
© Estate of Jerome Liebling)
