I am a skeptic. Art for Change
Art for Change has gallery hours established for the next several Saturdays! We’ll be open each Saturday starting this week (Jan 7th) through February 18th! Come check out the show!
Art for Change is pleased to present Dismissed featuring artists, Jamie Kelty, Sally Hogarth, Megan Klim, Tomo Mori, Kate Fauvell, Rosanna Bump, Junior Targét, and student artwork from Promise Academy II in Harlem and Maspeth High School in Queens.
Education, that which should be a right is often times a privilege. In this show, we asked artists to consider the disparities that exist in our education system through the lenses of class, school districts, and race. School budgets based on property taxes in some areas are one example of the stratification of schools based on class. Furthermore, the achievement gap between minority students and their white counter parts increased in recent years due to the reliance on standardized testing and the ever uncertain budgetary constraints. Indeed there is a need for educational reform to a system that was developed to reflect white middle class values, instead of the culture where the school is embedded. In fact the development of East Harlem as a community embodies these varying disparities within its educational system.
Media contact Harry Jean-Pierre, AfC Co-executive director, hjpierre@gmail.com, 917.224.7300
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