SMoCA's young@art gallery Generously sponsored by the Scottsdale Charros. Additional funding provided by Wells Fargo.		Print This Page Email This Page

Operated by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s education department, SMoCA’s young@art gallery is devoted to the creative work by youth. It is located within the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, immediately adjacent to SMoCA, at 7380 East Second Street in downtown Scottsdale. Regular hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm; Sunday, 12:00 - 5:00pm. Admission is free.

PIctured: Artist Lyle Ashton Harris with high school students in Accra, Ghana.

Cultivating Commonalities: A Photographic Exchange

Students exchange cultural snapshots with peers in Ghana

February 8 - May 4, 2008

This special collaboration between forty high school students in Accra, Ghana, and in the Phoenix metropolitan area was inspired by SMoCA's exhibition, Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up. The teens in Accra worked with Lyle Ashton Harris (who teaches at New York University and in the university's study-abroad program in Ghana) and college interns from Harris's classes. In Arizona, the teens worked with ASU photography professor James Hajiceck and ASU interns. The high school students are making self-portraits; exchanging ideas through an on-line blog; and then combining their works in a collaborative collage that reflects their sense of global community.

The project's Arizona school collaborators features twenty students (4 students from each school) from five metropolitan schools including: Central High School, South Mountain High School, Metropolitan Arts Institute, Coronado High School and Gilbert High School.

Visit the project blog:

http://ccphotoexchange.blogspot.com/