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Carnegie International:  Teenagers are Talking (May/Jun 1999)

Home Museums Back Issues Membership   Fear of being “wrong” when responding to contemporary art is a barrier to teenagers’appreciation of the art of our times. To turn apprehension into

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Fear of being “wrong” when responding to contemporary art is a barrier
to teenagers’appreciation of the art of our times. To turn apprehension
into curiosity, Carnegie Museum of Art is collaborating with local middle
and high school students and teachers to create a video based on the 1999
Carnegie International—the museum’s triennial survey of contemporary art—which
opens in November. The teen-focused video is one element in a larger initiative
sponsored by The Grable Foundation that will connect students to the influx
of creativity from around the world triggered by the 1999 Carnegie International.

To produce the video, the museum has partnered with an advisory team
of six students from Pittsburgh’s Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) high
school. The students  take their video cameras to area schools and
capture their peers’ views about contemporary art.  What the kids
discover is essential to ensuring that the final product will be accessible
to a teenage audience. Footage of International artists discussing their
work and interviews with the exhibition’s curator, Madeleine Grynsztejn,
will be among the video’s highlights. The video will be available to all
interested teachers as one way of making their own students’visits to the
Carnegie International exciting and enriching.

For several months teachers have been preparing for the exhibition’s
presence in Pittsburgh.  Meeting regularly at the museum, they are
developing interdisciplinary pilot projects based on the contemporary art
collection to serve as models for interpreting works in the International.
The excitement is building as students anticipate e-mailing fellow students
in other countries to discover the cultural contexts in which the International
artists are working. Watch for a special event next winter when Pittsburghers
are invited to experience the International through the creative writings
of teenagers.
 
 

 

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