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An Art & Engagement class:

April 28, 2025 Catalina Alvarez

Art Making in Hell’s Kitchen

VART 3333

Fordham College Lincoln Center

FALL 2025 M 11:30-2:15 SL 24 L

questions? MStreet@fordham.edu

Course Description

Students will respond to the neighborhoods around FCLC by taking photographs, shooting digital video, painting and drawing, using posters and text, recording sound, making architectural sketches or engaging in site-specific performances. The course will start with visits from neighborhood activists and observational walking tours to identify obstacles and challenges in the locales. Then students will make projects in their chosen mediums culminating in a possible exhibition of the work in the Lipani Gallery in Fall 2023. This course carries a CEL (Community Engaged Learning) designation. Students will take on a service learning project this semester. No prior experience or equipment needed to participate in this course.

List of Possible Service Projects (or invent others)

Make a neighborhood specific PSA about a local organization

Make flyers (about the health care, free food distribution, city services) in association with the Tenant’s Association at Amsterdam Houses

Work on the completion of the Amsterdam Houses Resource Guide

Serve food or do media work for the Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center/Goddard Riverside Community Center/ Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries.

Work with the NY Society for Ethical Culture’s “Good Neighbors Initiative”. This could include participating in their monthly “Pantry” program, serving residents of Amsterdam Houses, Amsterdam Addition or Harborview Terrace. Other services they offer include:

Tele-Visiting appointments for incarcerated people to connect with their families

Healthy cooking series

Health fair

Legal services for wills

Contribute a piece for the Legacies of San Juan Hill (details TBA)

List of Possible Creative Projects (or invent others)

A day in the worklife of a Lincoln Square BID cleaning crew member

A portrait (photo, film or sketches) of a park; how it serves different people at different times of the day

A graphic, visually arresting proposal for re developing a block in the neighborhood

Architectural renderings of a block in the neighborhood

A portrait (photo, film, drawing or painting) of a person or business

Oral history interviews with older residents about how the neighborhood has changed

A documented performance on a public bench

Using public records research the transformation over time of a building or block

Documenting a neighborhood walk by juxtaposing photographs (or video) and written commentary. You could take such a walk yourself, or follow another resident and document their reactions to places in the locale

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