Partnering with NYCHA for GO

Teaching artists working on the GO NYCHA partnership include: (back, from left) Veron Israel Williams, Joseph H. Falero, Paula Santos, Taeesha Muhammad, Edyta Halon, Pansum Cheng, Keneisha Turner, Juan Santiago, (front from left) Wiley Lucero, Maya Valladares, Laurel Shute, Melinda Yale.

As part of this program, teaching artists from the Brooklyn Museum have been paired with teaching artists from NYCHA staff. Each pair is reaching out to the NYCHA community centers, residents of the houses, and grassroots organizations to help get the word out about the collaboration. The pair will lead the walks during the weekend and participants will check-in and nominate artists using an iPad app specifically designed for these walks. When the GO exhibition opens in December, we will continue to work with NYCHA so participants can attend the opening and take in the show they helped create.

The programming we are doing in collaboration with NYCHA is something that our corporate sponsor, Deutsche Bank, really encouraged. Deutsche Bank is supporting GO through its Art & Technology program and in their own participation, they wanted to support an initiative that thought broadly about community and sought to enable all residents of Brooklyn access to both the process and the technology that would be used throughout.

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