Ignite Your Students’ Imagination this June at #PhotovilleFestival 2025!
Get ready for a day of photographic discovery and creativity at Photoville’s 2025 Education Day in Brooklyn Bridge Park in partnership with PhotoWings, The NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and St. Ann’s Warehouse! From inspiring conversations with professional artists to lively Youth Artist Exchange panels led by young creatives, this free program is tailor-made for elementary, middle, and high school students.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect your classroom to a world of art, storytelling, and fresh perspectives. It’s more than just a field trip—it’s a spark for the next generation of artists.
SESSION 1: June 11 / 9:30am – 1:30pm
SESSION 2: June 12 / 9:30am – 1:30pm
SESSION 3 is full and closed for new registrations!
Light Refreshments and water will be provided.
*Students should bring their own lunch for a picnic in the park
Join us for a relaxed and fun way to connect with fellow educators and art practitioners in the Photoville Education network, in partnership with PhotoWings, during our Opening Weekend Celebration at Photoville 2025—right in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park!
Spend the day exploring exhibitions, participating in free workshops and tours, then wind down at our Educator Happy Hour with live music, visual storytelling, and stunning waterfront views.
Your first drink is on us!
Date: 6/7/2025
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park
Thank you to our Photoville Education partner, PhotoWings and our Education Day partner, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for investing support and resources into our mission to engage young people and educators through visual storytelling.
A Youth Artist Exchange panel featuring NeOn Photography
Learn MoreArtist talk with High School of Art and Design students about their work in “The Real and Surreal”
Learn MoreA Youth Artist Exchange panel featuring International Center of Photography!
Learn MoreA Youth Artist Exchange panel featuring the Bronx Documentary Center
Learn MoreArtist talk with Genel Ambrose, curator of “Witness”.
Learn MoreArtist talk with Cinthya Santos Briones, photographer of “Herbolario Migrante”
Learn MoreArtist talk with Lynn Johnson of “The Limitless Project”
Learn MoreArtist talk with Justin Maxon on his work “Decolonizing Care”
Learn MoreArtist talk with Rosem Morton, photographer behind “Guardians of Thitu”
Learn MoreArtist talk with Ann Hermes, photographer behind “Local Newsrooms”
Learn MoreArtist talk with Syed Yaqeen, photographer behind “American Muslim Experience”
Learn MoreArtist talk with Nïa MacKnight about her exhibit “Minjimendan / Remember”.
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Alice Proujansky discussing his exhibition Hard Times are Fighting Times
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Mohammed Q. Amin discussing his exhibition Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience Within Pandemics
Learn MorePhotoville Festival Education Field Trips are Back!
Learn MorePhotoville Festival Education Field Trips are Back!
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Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Luvia Lazo discussing her exhibition Kanitlow
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Nolan Trowe discussing his exhibition Puddles In My Head: (Our Emotions)
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Sharon Miller discussing his exhibition The Creative Ambassadors Project
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Jeffrey Henson Scales discussing his exhibition In A Time of Panthers: Early Photographs
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Tiffany Smith discussing his exhibition Throned
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Josué Azor discussing his exhibition Ayiti: Beyond Darkness
Learn MoreHear from teen photographers featured in the Esta Soy Yo exhibition at Photoville Los Angeles and join a conversation on understanding identity, learning photography, and affirming the importance of creative expression.
Learn MoreHear from our featured middle-school students who have learned the skills of Street Photography as a way to know their world, and the world around them, better.
Learn MoreIn this photography series we are excited to share the work of the young women photographers from Club Balam in Chiapas, Mexico, Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles, California, A VOICE-(Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education) from the Two Eagle River School on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, and work from our own photography program.
Learn MoreFor millions throughout the US, the experience of affordable, stable and adequate housing is precarious at best. Homelessness, eviction, displacement, harassment, overcrowding and disrepair are increasingly common experiences.
Learn MoreThe Bronx Junior Photo League (BJPL) is a free after-school photography and journalism program serving middle through high school students at the Bronx Documentary Center, a non-profit gallery and educational space in the South Bronx.
Learn MoreICP’s Community Partnerships and Teen Academy together serve over 900 young people throughout the city each year by developing their knowledge of photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking.
Learn MoreStudents from the 2018 workshop will discuss their work in this panel moderated by Lorie Novak, Professor of Photography & Imaging and Founder & Director of Future Imagemakers and Makeda Flood, a senior in the Department of Photography & Imaging and one of Future Imagemakers teachers.
Learn MoreX-Posure intern photographers present their second photo project, “The Geometry of Death and Re-Birth”. Each photographer explores their diverse and intersecting identities as an act of self-representation and advocacy.
Learn MoreStudents will present their collaborative project, “Postcards from Brownsville” and discuss how their photographs can impact insider and outside perceptions of their community.
Learn MoreStudents from the Red Hook Community Justice Center and the Brownsville Community Justice Center’s Summer Photography Program share what they’ve learned about controlling their own visual narratives and going beyond the simple selfie.
Learn MoreICP’s Community Partnerships and Teen Academy together serve over 900 young people throughout the city each year by developing their knowledge of photography, critical thinking, writing and public speaking. Current students and alumni from these programs will share their images and writing, and reflect on the roles that photography plays in fostering self-confidence, community building and social change.
Learn MoreStudents at Red Hook Labs School will present their work created during this year’s Youth Career and Youth Summer Program sessions.
Learn MoreThroughout July 2017, students from UNIS and KIPP College Prep in the Bronx took part in the UNIS Human Rights Project, a photojournalism program for high school students sponsored by UNIS and the EE Ford Foundation.
Learn MoreStudents from the Bronx Junior Photo League (BJPL) — the Bronx Documentary Center’s after-school documentary photography program — will share the work they created for “Journeys: Immigration Stories,” on view at Photoville.
Learn MoreStudents from the 2017 NYU Future Imagemakers workshop will discuss how they use photography to tell their stories and address social justice issues in a panel moderated by Lorie Novak, Professor of Photography & Imaging and Founder & Director of Future Imagemakers.
Learn MoreX-Posure student photographers present their first photo project, “The Essence of Here,” in which participants explore their diverse and intersecting identities as an act of self-representation and advocacy. Through the use of imagery and spoken word, they will delve into the poetic visual stories that speak on their experiences as LGBTQ+ youth. In the spirit of “nothing about us, without us,” youth will speak on the importance of having the agency to tell their own stories.
Learn MoreA Youth Artist Exchange panel featuring HerShot!
Learn MoreA Youth Artist Exchange panel featuring the Bronx Junior Photo League
Learn MoreA Youth Artist Exchange panel featuring The Creative Youth Society
Learn MoreThe Photoville Educator Happy Hour is an informal way to meet our new Public Engagement Manager, Koren Martin, and also connect with other educators and art practitioners in the Photoville Education network at Brooklyn Bridge Park for the Opening Day Community Celebration at Photoville 2022! The first drink is on us!
Learn MorePhotoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work looks inward, creating intimate images that communicate personal identity and illustrate relationships to loved ones and to home.
Learn MorePhotoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work reaches into their family, cultural and community roots to connect and redefine the past, present and future.
Learn MorePhotoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work looks outward to explore and investigate their surroundings, communities, and pressing social issues within them.
Learn MoreProduced and Hosted by Photoville Education
Proudly supported in partnership by PhotoWings and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Learn MoreThis panel will celebrate New York City students and their arts educators. We will also present a call to action: Ensure that arts education remains a leading factor in the curriculum of every child.
Learn MoreStudents in the Bronx Junior Photo League (BJPL), the Bronx Documentary Center’s (BDC) free documentary storytelling and college success program for 6th through 12th grade students, have been documenting social justice issues and community-based stories since 2013.
Learn MoreStorytelling, identity, prejudice, family, friends, community, intersectionality, activism, and finding freedom through creativity are some of the topics addressed in the photographic projects of the 2020 NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers. They will discuss their work, and how photo-based image-making has empowered them to speak up for social justice.
Learn MoreThe panel will conclude with a dynamic discussion among the participants and the audience of youth photographers, in an effort to engage in a greater dialogue about how photography can serve as a platform for youth to tell their own stories, build community, and impact change.
Learn MoreFor the purposes of #YOURTURN students have used the medium of photography to cross the external physical borders in the city of Los Angeles and identify the borders created within themselves.
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