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The sixteen artists featured in the exhibition Capturing the Echo: Expanding the Walls 2022 author their own accounts of our shared world. They are witnesses, participants, and muses.
With excerpts from former Director of Education and Public Programming and ETW founder, Sandra Jackson-Dumont's original ETW proposal, Education Director, Shanta Lawson, reflects on the past, present, and future legacy of ETW.
Expanding the Walls, 2020 participants brought a personally meaningful object to create a collective piece that represents who they are at this moment, as individuals and as a community.
Ginny Huo, Senior Coordinator, Teen Programs, shares how she creates space for teens to be respected, heard, and seen.
Meet Angelica Calderon and Zainab Floyd, Expanding the Walls alumni who, in their shared interests decided to create space for other artists of color by creating their own collective, ZAZA.
In February 2020, Jennifer Harley, School & Community Partnerships Coordinator, visited artist and 2008, Expanding the Walls alumni Ivan Forde in his East Harlem studio.
An interview with Senetchut Men Ab Nehti, or Sen Floyd, 2011 Expanding the Walls participant. Sen is a Brooklyn-born filmmaker, photographer, and art director now based in New York and Los Angeles.
Before Expanding the Walls I was very close-minded toward art. For a very long period of my life I was stuck on the idea that art was just drawing and/or painting. Oh how wrong I was!
Over the last fifty years, The Studio Museum in Harlem has offered a number of school, youth, and family programs for people with specific needs by creating platforms for dynamic educational experiences that encourage critical thought with and through art.
Last week, The Studio Museum in Harlem opened Harlem Postcards: Wish You Were Here at Studio Museum 127.
This April, Expanding the Walls participants had our first meeting with curators from the Studio Museum.
Participants from Expanding the Walls recently took a tour around Harlem with architectural historian John Reddick. He showed us the architectural landscape of Harlem and pointed out that different buildings had remained the same for many years.
