It was a privilege to work as the Producer's Assistant for Denver Art + Technology Advancement’s annual MORPHOS Digital Dome Artist Residency. This residency provides a platform for both international and American artists to become skilled in digital dome (planetarium) technology as an evolving canvas for immersive art. The final group showcase and exhibition at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery is a uniquely experimental and inspirational event.
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Teaching middle-school Digital Photography under the auspices of Denver Arts + Technology Advancement (DATA) has enabled me to participate in a beautiful mission of empowering low-income youth through access to creative technology. DATA's program, DATA Ed, provides K-12 creative technology education in the Title 1 schools of Denver, Colorado, USA. In my classes, we covered the history of photography’s technological development, effects on the art world, modern contexts, and current professional opportunities. We also covered composition, angles, effects, narrative implications, and digital post-editing.
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At, Bialik-Rogozin, a K-12 school for refugee and migrant youth in South Tel Aviv, Israel, I designed arts-based curriculum for the middle-school Environmental Sustainability Class. I collaborated with the course’s teacher to incorporate upcycled-art making into lectures and discussions about environmental issues, focusing on activating students’ creative resources for tackling very large conceptual issues. Projects involved collaging trash compositions into books we found in the school library's trash-pile and upcycled into sketchbooks.
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In 2016, I was commissioned by Colorado Nonprofit, BuCu West, to design and coordinate a mural project for El Merendero Event Center with teens from Westwood neighborhood alongside teens from International CITY After-School Program for Refugee Youth in Aurora. Together we used lace and cardboard from cereal boxes to create stencils for spray-painting the design onto the wall.
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In March 2016, I worked with artist, Kim Morski, in partnership with the International CITY after-school program for refugee youth and Red Delicious Press in Aurora, Colorado, to create a unique and interactive community project for the Denver Month of Printmaking. The students were invited to create drawings of recipes from their home countries that were then screen printed with edible ink onto flatbread at a public event held at Red Delicious Press. The students also sold their own limited edition screen prints to raise money for the International CITY after-school program and Red Delicious Press.
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I am thrilled to have launched a successful Kickstarter campaign with my brother, Ilan Salzberg, and dear friend, Katie Olson for our original, sustainability-themed children's book, When The Little Engine Couldn't. In this book, trash is collaged and printed onto paper through the collagraph printmaking method to create the backgrounds for each spread. An “I-Spy Found Material” Key is located in the back on the book for interactive play with child and adult readers!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/660763983/when-the-little-engine-couldnt
International CITY is an after-school program run by the Denver African Community Center for refugee youth. I am honored to have collaborated with the International CITY community through arts classes and a mural project with the students on the wall of their computer room.
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We Made This is a social enterprise run at the African Community Center that works with women who are newly resettled refugees to empower their skilled artisanship to financially support their new lives in Denver. In my weekly art classes for the group, I focus on providing a free-form creative space with no wrong answers, where class participants are encouraged to develop their own aesthetic styles, and the group provides a safe space for risk-taking and inventive problem solving. We particularly focus on learning the printmaking methods of linocut and collagraph, creating special products such as Christmas Ornaments and Valentine's Day cards. To see more of the women's work and to read their stories, visit: wemadethis.com.
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In Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2011, I ran art workshops with patients in the children's wing of Viedma Hospital in partnership with Movimiento Sonrisa, a non-profit which brings volunteers to the hospital to connect with children whose parents are unable to visit often due to difficult economic situations and living long distances away.
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