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In 1993 Dia initiated its Arts Education Program. Dia is particularly committed to fostering communication about contemporary artists and their work through arts education programming.
Dia's primary Arts Education Program annually serves six to eight public school teachers (primarily in the junior high grades) and their students, from New York City's District 2 schools, located in the Chelsea vicinity. Students and teachers participate throughout the school year in teacher training workshops, student museum visits, and classroom workshops with teaching artists. The teachers attend a series of workshops and lectures presented by participants in Dia's programs. These educators meet with artists from the exhibition program, poets from the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series, scholars and critics from The Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art series, artists creating web-specific projects, as well as teaching artists, art historians, Dia's curator, and other staff members. Trained guides lead students on a series of concentrated visits to the museum, offering students the unique experience of observing art over time. The teacher, teaching artist, and Dia's Education Associate then collaboratively develop a hands-on project that is interwoven with the class curriculum and inspired by the students' engagement with a specific installation. Through this hands-on experience and long-term project development, the Arts Education Program provides teachers and students with the tools for speaking and writing about contemporary art and the ability to relate this knowledge to a wide variety of subjects in the school curriculum.
The past six years of Dia's Arts Education Program has culminated in a dynamic exhibition of all of the students' work. The exhibition has been received with enthusiasm and pride by teachers, students, and parents. For students, seeing their own work displayed in a museum setting is a boost to their self-esteem and a welcome recognition of their artistic and academic efforts.
High School Initiatives
The New Media Collaborative: Since 2001, Dia and Eyebeam in collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix have joined together to help link underserved high school students with the cultural and technological resources in their Chelsea community in an effort to encourage important steps across today's digital divide. The New Media Collaborative is a focused extension of the new media projects of each institution. This year, students from Humanities Bayard Rustin, located in Chelsea, will work with professional teaching artists to develop digital portfolios, discuss current new media projects, and visit the collaborating arts organizations as well as other local arts venues. The program concludes with an event where each student presents the work they have developed and discusses the technological skills and conceptual ideas of their projects.
Portfolio Outreach
Dia serves as the link between Baruch College Campus High school students who are developing portfolios for college admissions and contemporary art galleries and art institutions in the Chelsea neighborhood. The students make visits to these organizations and listen to lectures from contemporary art professionals and New York City area college admissions staff.
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New Media Collaborative
Elana Berkowitz
Carrie Dashow
Yael Kanarek
Teachers
Cyndy Olphie
Julie Pintak
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The Arts Education Program at Dia:Beacon is made possible through the generosity of the Dyson Foundation, Entergy Corporation, The Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Karan-Weiss Foundation, Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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