Wendy Barrales

Wendy Barrales is a Harlem-based artist, educator, and founder of the WOCArchive. As a Xicana from the L.A. area and proud daughter of formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants, her work seeks to write and paint her ancestors and her histories into existence.

Jacqueline Du

Jacqueline Du has been a visual arts educator in New York City for over 10 years, working in all five boroughs with young people to strengthen individual confidence, deepen community care, and cultivate joy through the practice of art-making. She holds a BFA in visual arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and an M.A. in art education from the City College of New York, CUNY.

Caitlin Gibbons

Caitlin Gibbons is an art educator whose love of photography began at age 9 while working with her grandfather. She currently works in Brooklyn, New York at Digital Art and Cinema Technology High School, where she has taught art and filmmaking for the past four years. She holds a master’s in art education from New York University, and has over nine years of education experience. Prior to her work in education, Gibbons served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Rwanda, developing a community program funded by the Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, CA) that still runs today. When not teaching, she continues to develop her art practice, focusing on independent documentary projects.

Leigh Klonsky

Leigh Klonsky is an artist and an art teacher, teaching art in the New York City public school system for almost 20 years. Since 2007 she has taught Digital Art & Photography to middle and high school students at East Side Community School in the Lower East Side. She also runs the East Side Photo Program, an after school intensive program for dedicated photography students.

Brenna McLaughlin

Brenna McLaughlin is a photographer and educator, currently teaching at the High School of Art and Design—a Career & Technical Education (CTE) school located in Manhattan, New York. She believes the camera is an essential pedagogical instrument, and a way to tell inventive stories by empowering young people to share their perspectives of the world. The CTE model is an incredible way to bring the real world directly into the classroom. McLaughlin believes art can help foster conversations to be an advocacy tool for stories that matter. She advocates for the photography industry to become a more balanced and diverse community. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ben Russell

After over 30 years as a freelance commercial photographer working for corporate, editorial, and nonprofit clients, Ben Russell started a second career as a high school art teacher. He teaches visual art, black and white film photography, and digital photography at the High School of Fashion Industries in New York City. Russell also teaches at the International Center of Photography and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Photoville

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PhotoWings

We’re honored to continue our partnership with Photoville for our 8th consecutive year, and to celebrate Photoville’s 13th edition!  Each year Photoville provides so many rich, unique, and diverse experiences in and around photography–PhotoWings is thrilled to help enrich this community as Education Partners.

Our mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. We are dedicated to utilizing the power of photography to further deep thinking, communication, and action.

The PhotoWings Outreach Program and our extensive media archive have myriad educational applications and possibilities, including projects from partners that cross disciplines, generations, and cultures. We also create toolkits/curricula for replication, adaptation and/or inspiration.

PhotoWings has partnered to document the Photoville Talks for the past five years, to expand the ways the global community can be a part of these important dialogues. Explore the collection of Photoville Talks today!

Be sure to check out all the Photoville Resources that have been supported in partnership with PhotoWings

And for more information about PhotoWings, you can visit http://photowings.org/

NYC Media & Entertainment

The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment’s mission is to support and strengthen New York City’s creative economy and make it accessible to all. In 2019, the creative industries accounted for more than 500,000 local jobs and have an economic impact of $150 billion annually. MOME comprises five divisions: the Film Office, which coordinates on location production throughout the five boroughs; NYC Media, the city’s official broadcast network and production group; the Office of Nightlife, which supports the city’s nighttime economy; the Press Credentials Office, which issues press cards; and Programs and Initiatives to advance industry and workforce development across NYC’s creative sectors.