- When
- Thurs., Dec. 6, 2018, 5–7:30 p.m.
- Where
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Tickets
- Free
How might we use the lenses of our individual lived experiences, our capacity for empathy, and our understanding of institutions and the arts to talk openly about race? In this five-part series, educators from around the region join together to explore, reflect, and practice building spaces of racial justice and equity both in the classroom and community.
Using the paintings created by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for the Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018, we will interrogate our imaginations and possibilities. As an artist, Yiadom-Boakye says, “Everything is a composite. I work from sources. I make scrapbooks; I make drawings; I collect things that I might use later.”
Her current work is governed by these key questions:
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- What story do we tell? Will it be a story of beautiful people with artistic souls? Will it be a story of blackness? Will it be a story of painting?
- How might we interrogate our collective imaginations and build new worlds with beautiful people with artistic souls right here in Pittsburgh?
About the Series
The Empowered Educators Series provides a forum for teachers, educators, administrators, counselors, and the like to think critically and openly discuss topics of race, equity, bias, and pedagogy. Empowered Educators Series promotes ongoing learning, partnerships with supporting organizations, and community building among teachers.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Center for Urban Education, Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, the Learning Instigator, and Remake Learning have joined together to support educators in their approaches and abilities to facilitate thoughtful discussions about race in the classroom.
This series is fully supported by the Grable Foundation and is free and open to the public, though registration is required. Dinner will be provided, with a vegetarian option. Please help reduce food waste by letting us know if you need to cancel your registration.
This event takes place in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Board Room.
Part of → Empowered Educators
Educators of all disciplines, artists, field professionals, and museum staff: please join us for Empowered Educators! In this ongoing participatory series, we will deepen our understanding of the ways in which the construction of race and our racialized experiences impact our teaching and learning communities.