POP featured on AfterED TV

View the Pedagogy of Photography video produced by Mary Kate Pappas with After Ed TV. After Ed TV is a web-based video channel produced by EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Check out the video below, on YouTube here or on After Ed TV, featured on the After Ed Update 7.22.09

The New York Times Lens Blog

Delighted to be featured in this article (click on article to view it) in the New York Times Lens Blog about the exhibit at Umbrella Arts Gallery. My photograph is the last image.

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There we sleep, dream, play and mate. There we spend a significant portion of life and often that’s where we are when it ends.

“Bed,” on display through Saturday at Umbrella Arts in the East Village, features 45 pictures by photographers who answered the gallery’s call to submit works uncovering the theme.

There are photographs of coffee-stained linens, pillow talk, pornography and an abandoned prison cell housing the rusty frame of a bunk bed. One photograph (”Naipes,” by Katie DelaVaughn) captures a boy shuffling a deck of cards while a set of hands points a revolver in the foreground. Another image (“Green,” by Dorothy O’Connor) is reminiscent of a Henri Rousseau painting, with a young dreamer on a bed of grass surrounded by growing vines.

“We do everything in bed,” said Harvey Stein, a photographer, a teacher at the International Center of Photography and the curator of the show. “I wanted to bring the bed from under the radar to our attention in a fun way, in a provocative way.”

Mr. Stein said he was inspired to produce the show after being captivated by one of his student’s photographs of an empty, unmade bed next to a window. “It’s around us and we ignore it and other people have made it the subject of their work,” he said, citing well-known pictures by Elliott Erwitt, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston that included beds. Asked about his selection criteria, he said, “I didn’t want people just lying in bed.”

Mr. Stein plans to publish a book on the topic. Because of the number of submissions, a sequel is also being planned for next year.

POP in the Manhattan Times

Here's what the article says...

Manhattan Times
July 2, 2009

Artist: Katie DelaVaughn
Title: “Inwood POP: Portraits and Poetry” (2009)
Exhibited: Inwood storefronts for as long as the proprietors choose to keep them up.

If you live or have been to Inwood recently, you’ve had to have seen them: adorable portraits of children, displayed in store windows all along Broadway and beyond. They’re part of a series called “Inwood POP: Portraits and Poetry” created by Bronx Artist Katie DelaVaughn. The kids are from Amistad Dual Language School on Broadway and W. 204th Street. The POP in the title stands for Pedagogy of Photography, which is a literacy and community service learning program created by DelaVaughn and implemented all over the country over the past 10 years. DelaVaughn spent six months with the Amistad students, starting in January. The kids were photographed at their favorite places in the neighborhood and then went to town on DelaVaughn’s prints with Sharpie markers, writing poetry about the significance of their favorite place in Spanish or English. Some favorite places include John’s Doo-Wop Deli, Subway (the sandwich restaurant) the Dyckman Dominican Bakery and Dunkin Donuts.

“Through this project students brought their home and community lives into the classroom and then returned their portraits and poetry to their community exhibiting their artwork at the various locations selected in the store windows if the store permitted,” DelaVaughn said in response to e-mailed questions. Over 100 portraits are out there in the neighborhood.

“I believe this type of project praises youth voice and language diversity, instills community pride, and supports and gives thanks to local neighborhood shops and organizations,” DelaVaughn said.

“The students layered the photographs in Spanish and English with not only with their hopes, and dreams but intimate family and cultural memories. It is my hope that the stories and creativity of Inwood community’s diverse children and their special places within the community are valued.”

For more information visit
www.Katiedelavaughn.com
to contact the artist email or call
info@katiedelavaughn.com
415-246-8652

Daniel P. Bader