MAKING ART IN BOOKLYN: EACH ONE TEACH ONE
From the Community Arts Network:
“Booklyn is an artists’ book-making cooperative headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y. Booklyn artist Jamie Munkatchy writes for CAN about the group’s progressive political philosophy and their declared responsibility to share what they know with the communities surrounding their studios. In their educational work, says Munkatchy, the artists talk about “how the power to make books is in our hands, not the hands of teachers, principals or publishers, but in our own hands. As Booklyn sees it, communities are better off when voices are not filtered by corporate or government interests. We are a stronger community when we are in charge of our own words and that means making our own media.” The story includes a book-making workshop lesson plan.”
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/68booklyn.php
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