27 Public Knowledge Projects
Students taking faculty fellows’ courses were invited to collaborate on Public Knowledge Projects that showcase and explore TLH teaching methods. Students participated in creating websites, podcasts, Instagram conversations, and more. They contributed insights from their perspectives as students at public events and in ongoing TLH-CUNY conversations. You can learn more about the projects students contributed to by following the links below.
Student Self Portrait Artworks
Kyana Neil
This is a representation of my activist side and my normal side. By bringing art and social justice together, I decided I wanted to remake a famous painting by Norman Rockwell. My head is served on a silver platter, hard to ignore, but I have very vibrant 60s/70s influenced makeup on. I’m surrounded by people laughing and talking, but all of the white people surrounding me have copied my makeup… and now the laughing seems to be more of a “haha we look just like her.” I tried to connect the “Culture Vulture” experience people of color always go through. Famous celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Gwen Stefani are infamously known as Culture Vultures… they wear people’s culture like it’s a costume. (From Asian, Native American, Black people, and much more!) And me a person of color, surrounded by white onlookers is having the first-hand experience of only being a “thing to eat, or to take from.”
Daniel Herrera
I am Industrial Design major at LaGuardia Community College and a future Architecture major at City College of New York. I wanted to show a physical and creative representation of myself. To illustrate this idea, I divided the painting into two pieces. The left side shows my physical self-portrait and the right side represents the creativity coming from my mind. I painted a color explosion full of different paths and figures in contrast to the realistic representation of my face.
Guilia Armentano
The work is a reflection on the experience of grief. To create my portrait I went through photographs I recently shot and decided to combine two of them together in Photoshop. Even though letting myself feel the pain is hurtful, it can also be comforting, an idea rendered by the image of the water carrying me.
I found the workshop interesting in how it showed the different ways in which artists think about themselves and their approaches to describing the aspects that make up their identities. This has given me more confidence in expressing something which, although it has been redefining my entire self, I am not comfortable sharing, even if just through my artwork. Hearing others describe their portraits was rewarding because I learned a lot about the creative process involved in the realization of works that are very diverse, although they were made by people who, at least partly, share the same educational path.
Scotti Norton
I used a 3D rendering app called Blender to create an 8-second looping animation called Late Bloomer (and a still 2D i