G:Class

A series of workshops involving teens and the electro-acoustic musician Tarek Atoui, Empty Cans is a project focused on youth discovering their own truth and presenting that truth through technology. On July 27, the New Museum’s Artist in Residency, Tarek Atoui, began his first of two week long Empty Cans with twenty fourteen- to nineteen-year-olds from the Museum's G:Class high school program and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation's RECYouth program.

In conjunction with the exhibition “Emory Douglas: Black Panther,” the New Museum partnered with the Studio Museum in Harlem and Groundswell Community Mural Project to develop a community mural based on the work of Emory Douglas. What we Want, What We Believe, is both the title of the mural, and the Black Panther Ten-Point Platform.

Visit "What we Want, What We Believe" community mural at 122nd Street and Third Avenue, New York, NY.

This course is an introduction to spatial relationships among world geographic regions, with focuses on the physical, cultural, political, and economic characteristics within each region. Students investigated how geographic regions interact with each other, and used use the city they live in to further their knowledge in geography at every level.  Students created a visual journal/diary that interpreted their journey in the class.

"The Shirt Off My Back" was the Senior Art Honors' final exhibition for the 2006-2007 academic year. G:Class helped to expand students' knowledge of contemporary art as they embarked on creating their own bodies of work.

As their final project for the quarter, students were asked to write a historical narrative on one of four revolutions: French, American, Mexican, or Haitian. In addition to this writing assignment, they had to illustrate a pivotal event from their chosen revolution utilizing the format of a storyboard. Through this lesson, "_Storyboarding Revolution":http://www.gclass.org/node/140 students illustrated cause and effect and chose a point of view from which to depict this event.

On March 29, 2007 an empty storefront on 42nd Street was converted into an art installation titled Our Space a project featuring the work of twenty-three students conceptualized by artist Ricky Sears.

During this project students at City-As-School wrote and presented their own proclamation by answering a question: "What are you fighting for?" inspired by Allison Smith's project, The Muster. This assignment, "What Are You Fighting For?!":http://www.gclass.org/node/138, created a platform for free expression. Students were encouraged to proclaim their own causes to spark discussion and awareness of issues important to students.