Victor D’Amico “Art as a Human Necessity”:

Collaborative Session between Teachers College, MoMA and The Art Barge

Three Collaborative Sessions provide the opportunity to contemplate how we can develop and better emphasize our own philosophy and practice of Art, Museum & Education for humanity as well as to rediscover new understandings of the work of Victor D’Amico, the founding director of the Education Department at MoMA. He broke through the boundaries that separated modern art, museums, schools and the natural world.

 

When: 2:00 - 5:00pm Monday, June 20 at Teachers College / 2:00 - 4:00pm Tuesday, June 21 at MoMA / 4:00 - 6:pm Friday, June 24 at Art Barge  

 

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Victor D’Amico (1904-1987)

The founding director of the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and educational programs developer including The

Children’s Art Carnival. He taught at Teachers College and established The Art Barge as a summer school. His philosophy was based on a fundamental faith in the creative potential in every man, woman and child.

“arts are a humanizing force and that their major function is to vitalize

living ...”

 

 

session I: TEACHERS COLLEGE, Columbia University

Victor D’Amico as Educator in the context of the Arts and Humanities.

Representatives of each Children’s Art Carnival talk about its content and the future perspective from its essence.

 

2:00 - 5:00pm Monday June 20^th

MACY HALL 447, 525 West 120th Street Teachers College　www.tc.edu/macygallery

Questions to Chimako Maeda at 212-280-5425 or email: chimacom@nua.ac.jp

 

Mediator: Judith Burton   Professor, Director of Art and Art Education, Teachers College

Presenters:

“Children’s Art Carnival in India in 1963” Prabha Sahasrabudhe, Former Professor of Art and Art Education, Teachers College

“Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem in 1969-current” Betty Blayton Taylor, Founding Director of Children’s Art Carnival in Harlem

“Children’s Art Carnival in Tokyo, Japan in 1995” Chimako Maeda, Research Visiting Scholar, Art and Art Education, Teachers College

“Children’s Art Carnival at Art Barge in 2006-current” Christopher Kohan, President, The Art Barge/The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art

Commentator: Wendy Woon   Deputy Director of Education Department

Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

 

session II MoMA

Victor D’Amico as a bridge between the Museum & Art Education.

A discussion on the Children’s Art Carnival’s environment in the Past, Present and Future will be held with museum educators and participants.

 

2:00 - 4:00pm Tuesday June 21^st

Education Center at the Cullman building

4 West 54th Street, MoMA

RSVP by June 13th to Katy Marcus at 212-708-9608 Katy_Marcus@moma.org 

 

Workshop:

Current Interactive Setting and Historical Original Toys and Tools for Motivation.

   Workshop Navigator  Elizabeth Margulies   MoMA

   Original tools Navigator  Christopher Kohan   Art Barge

Film Screening “Holiday Carnival”1956

Participants’ Discussion

   Mediator & Commentator  Judith Burton

   Commentator  Wendy Woon

 

 

session III THE ART BARGE

Art on the Beach, combining Art Education and Vacation.

The session focuses on how the environment affects people involved in art and art education from the museum side, beyond the school and in nature.

 

4:00 - 6:pm Friday June 24^th

The Art Barge/The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, Amagansett, Long Island    www.theartbarge.com

Questions to The Art Barge at 631-267-3172 or email: damico@hamptons.com

 

Presenters:

“Art Barge and its future” Christopher Kohan

“MoMA and Art Barge” Wendy Woon

“Teaching at MoMA and Art Barge” Arlette Buchman

“Learning beyond the School Works” Judith Burton

 

Sunset Reception (6:00-7:00pm)

 

Admission for each session is Free.

 

Sponsored by Teachers College, Museum of Modern Art and Art Barge/Victor D’Amico Institute of Art. Directed by Chimako Maeda, research visiting scholar, Art & Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University 2010/2011.