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Programs | Education

Fe Young Art Writers Project

Fe Young Art Writers Project, an Fe Arts Gallery partnership with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, promotes middle and high school students’ ability to articulate and share responses to visual art and develops comprehension of the practice of art criticism through discussion, reflection, writing, and publication.

Students visit the gallery where they use visual thinking strategies to delve collaboratively into selected works of art on view with a museum educator. They meet a professional art critic who discusses the elements of an art review as well as relevant aspects of his/her career.

In the second part of the visit, students select several works about which they would like to write. They take notes, sketch, record responses, and questions in whatever ways suits their personal styles. The gallery provides a CD with images and wall text to take back to the school.

Back at the classroom, the language arts teacher takes the students through the drafting process as they research and develop their own reviews. And, after crafting the reviews, the language arts teachers submits several of the students’ pieces for publication in the Post-Gazette’s My Generation column.

Workshop for the Working Artist

Fe Arts Gallery’s “Workshop for the Working Artist” offers a rare opportunity for artists to ask curators, funders, administrators, and critics vital nuts and bolts questions about how the art world works. Offered several times a year, this workshop hosts four local experts each time to hash out questions and issues large and small.

Past panelists include Eric Shiner, Milton Fine Curator of Art for the Andy Warhol Museum; Susan Blackman, Director of Arts Programs for Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council; Teresa Foley, media literacy consultant and video artist; Jennifer Baron, Pop Filter Editor, Pop City Media; Vicky Clark, curator and juror for “In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists”; Joey Kennedy, photographer and juror for “In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists”; Mac Howison, Sprout Fund Seed Award Coordinator; Owen Smith, Mattress Factory; Kurt Shaw, Art Writer for the Tribune Review; Michael Olijnyk, Mattress Factory Curator; and Renee Piechocki, Office of Public Art Director.

 

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