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.

About Lens

Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web.



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

Inwood POP:Portraits and Poetry Community Exhibit

After a successful school exhibit, the community exhibit is up. Come view 100 photographs layered with poetry at over 50 local businesses and organizations. This project has been brought full circle and the collaborative art has been returned to the places students felt connected to in their community and were photographed at. Come celebrate a community art project that praises youth voice and language diversity, instills community pride, and supports and gives thanks to local neighborhood shops and organizations.

BED Exhibit at Umbrella Arts Gallery in NYC

Check out the Exhibit BED, Juried by Harvey Stein, at the Umbrella Arts Gallery in NYC. The opening is June 11 from 6-8 at 317 E. 9th Street. I have a photograph titled Naipes from Nicaragua in the exhibit of Victor playing cards on his bed in the group home at Si a La Vida, where he lives.

About the Exhibit

In BED we mate, procreate, migrate, elucidate, masticate, investigate, commiserate, hibernate, communicate, prevaricate, procrastinate, educate, ruminate. We all have BED but it’s mostly hidden away in a remote room upstairs in our houses or in the back room of our apartments. BED is rarely discussed, is mostly taken for granted, yet we use it more than anything else in the house, spending perhaps one third of our lifetime there.

BED is where we cavort, entertain and are entertained, where we eat, sleep, talk on the phone, read, watch TV, dream, hang out, escape to. We live much of our life there, mostly our private lives, including dying. In this exhibit personal, fun, beautiful startling photographs reveal the concept of BED.

About Umbrella Arts

Umbrella Arts features rare shows of extreme talent specializing in
painting, drawing and photography.

As long time members of the Lower Manhattan Community, owners
Mary Ann Fahey and Margaret Bodell, are committed to keeping the artistic spirit of the East Village alive as a place of discovery, movement and change and have long championed under-represented groups of cultural contributors.
Umbrella Arts hosts guest-curated exhibitions and arts organizations internationally.

Together Fahey and Bodell present new talent in an intimate art space, where curatorial experimentation creates exhibitions and events that share the work of today's artists.

Hours: Thursday through Saturday 1PM - 6PM and by appointment

New Orleans Photo Alliance Exhibit

Just saw a write up in the Fraction Magazine Blog about a show I will be in. Click on the link or read below.

It is also featured on the New Orleans Photo Alliance Website and New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau Website.

New Orleans Photo Alliance Presents:
“Forever Hold Your Peace”

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is pleased to present “Forever Hold Your Peace,” a group exhibition on the subject of weddings, juried by Sylvia Plachy. In curating this exhibition, Plachy, a Hungarian born, New York based, world-renowned photographer, selected 31 photographs depicting the traditions, customs, symbols and the rich human tableau surrounding wedding rituals. Featured artists include Marc Pagani, Evan Abramson, Katie DelaVaughn and Kate Nicholson. A slideshow of 50 additional images will run throughout the opening. “Forever Hold Your Peace” will be on view from June 5 through July 19, 2009 at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, 1111 St. Mary St. New Orleans, LA 70130. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, June 6, from 6-9pm and Ms. Plachy will present a Gallery Talk at 7pm.

“I was looking for the same kind of pictures that I look for when I am photographing. I was looking for what would move me and for what I would never tire of looking. I wanted to see a burst of life palpable on a piece of paper.”- Sylvia Plachy


I feel honored that one of my favorite photographers Sylvia Plachy, whom I heard speak earlier this year at the NYPL through an Aperture Foundation event, selected all my entries to be in the exhibit. The following image, Alistandose, taken on my point and shoot camera in Altagracia, Nicaragua of Fatima's wedding will be framed on the gallery wall.



The following four images, also taken in Altagracia, Nicaragua, will be exhibited in the gallery slideshow.










The New Orleans Photo Alliance is a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 2006 whose mission is to encourage the understanding and appreciation of photography through exhibitions, opportunities and educational programs. PhotoNOLA is a month long celebration of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. The fourth annual series of events are currently being planned for December 2009.

For additional information on The New Orleans Photo Alliance please visit them online on their website: www.neworleansphotoalliance.org or at their blog www.neworleansphotoalliance.blogspot.com

A preview of the exhibition can be seen on their website: http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/exhibitions.php

Inwood POP:Portraits and Poetry

Inwood POP: Portraits and Poetry is a part of Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance Uptown Arts Stroll. Click here to link to our project.

Here's what the Uptown Arts Stroll says...

Wed 10 Jun 9:15 am – 10:30 am
Amistad Dual Language School • 4862 Broadway (W. 204th St.)
Exhibition Opening. Over one hundred photographs taken by Katie DelaVaughn and poems by 1st and 2nd grade students sharing their home and community - photographs will then be exhibited at the following locations: Broadway from Dyckman St. to W. 207St.; W. 207 St. from Sherman Ave. to Inwood Hill Park; Dyckman St. at Sherman Ave. to the Hudson River; and on the side streets of Vermilyea Ave., Academy St., Cummings St., and Seaman Ave. Info: 415.246.8652
Also visit: http://www.artstroll.com/venues-artists/#Amistad_Dual



Inwood POP: Portraits and Poetry featured in Manhattan Times

Here's what the Manhattan Times says...

Inwood POP: Portraits and Poetry opening exhibit to be held at the school auditorium at Amistad Dual Language School. Come view over 100 portraits layered with bilingual poetry revealing students favorite places in Inwood. Photography by Katie DelaVaughn. Poetry by Amistad 1st and 2nd grade students. Support provided by principal Miriam Pedraja and teachers Noah Ingber, Kristi Ley, Olga Ramos and Islandia Payano.
Wednesday, 10 June, 2009
09:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Cost:Free

Categories:

* Art Exhibit
* Children's
* Literary Event
* NoMAA Event