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Teacher’s Evening with the Department of Art
The Department of Art and the Center for Photography invite teachers to an evening with the aim of bringing the world of photography and school together.
Today’s digital media are constantly placing higher demands on children and young people’s ability to understand and interpret images. Gaining conceptual and practical knowledge of photography gives students agency to navigate the flow of images.
Therefore, the Department of Art is hosting a teacher’s evening and showing practical examples of how photography can be integrated into teaching. We will begin with a screening of the current exhibition “Aboowe, this is for you” by Ikram Abdulkadir. Photographer Anna Ledin Wirén will then present her artistry, show examples from her co-creative projects, and discuss how a norm-critical approach to images gives students the confidence to develop their own visual language and image creation.
The Center for Photography and its members have extensive experience in matters of visual literacy and look forward to welcoming you to discuss the role of images for children and young people together.
We offer drinks and snacks and hope for an inspiring evening where we can get to know each other!
When: Tuesday, May 7, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
5:30 PM–5:45 PM Mingle
5:45 PM–6:15 PM Screening of Ikram Abdulkadir’s exhibition
6:15 PM–7:00 PM Presentation by Anna Ledin Wirén + Q
Where: Center for Photography, Bjurholmsplan 26 at Skanstull
For whom: Teachers, cultural representatives, and pedagogical staff at municipal and independent schools.
RSVP by May 6 to stina.bulow@konstdepartementet.se
Participants
Anna Ledin Wirén is a photographer based in Stockholm. With both a BA (Hons) in Photography from London College of Printing and a teaching degree in photographic image from Stockholm University, she works with both artistic and commercial assignments and has extensive experience as a media educator. Her projects often focus on human rights, integration, equality, and gender, explored through both digital and analog techniques, such as still and moving images. Through photography, Anna wants to be involved in examining and influencing the visual language in today’s media offerings.
Read more about Anna Ledin Wirén here
The Department of Art wants to radically improve children’s access to visual arts in schools through co-creative meetings with professional artists. In the meeting between art and school, we can together develop the artistic process into a powerful form of teaching. We see how school students’ access to the various languages of art depends on the commitment of individual teachers and that visual arts are often particularly neglected in relation to other art forms. At the same time, today’s digital media are constantly placing higher demands on young people’s ability to understand and interpret images. The Department of Art is a direct response to this. We have committed ourselves to giving children and young people greater access to the methods and issues of art, and to the important values that arise in the meeting between professional visual artists and students.
