New Museum Announces Youth Spectrum Arts Participants and Teacher Advisory Council Members for 2023

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The #newmuseum today announces the #youthspectrumarts participants and Teacher Advisory Council members for 2023. These programs are designed for educators and young adults and further the Museum's longstanding commitment to providing innovative, timely public programs that serve #people representing a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
 
The #youthspectrumarts (YSA) initiative is a stipend-supported afterschool program that offers young #people ages fifteen to nineteen the opportunity to interact with #contemporaryart and culture with a focus on gender, sexuality, and queer and trans community building. Through workshops, artmaking, and discussion, participating youth connect with themselves, peers, and guest artists. As part of the culminating project for the program, YSA participants will host a Youth Summit in June 2023, entailing workshops and a celebration organized by invited artists, activists, collectives, and other youth groups. Each summit builds upon and reinterprets YSA's founding principles of healing, self-love, skill building, political education, and empowerment, and its final form is shaped by the learnings participants gather over their six-month engagement with the program.
 
The #youthspectrumarts participants for 2023 attend public high schools neighboring the #newmuseum and spread across the city, including the Academy for Software Engineering, Columbia Secondary School, Essex Street Academy, High School of Art and Technology, High School for Environmental Studies, Institute for Collaborative Education, Notre Dame High School, NYC Museum School, and William Cullen Bryant High School.
 
The Teacher Advisory Council is a cohort of #newyork City Public School educators who advise and support the New Museum's Department of Education and Public Engagement's mission to cultivate growth through inquiry and to strengthen people's connections with themselves, one another, and the wider world. The stipend-supported Council collaborates with Museum staff to develop and promote resources and programs for school groups, youth, and teachers, ensuring meaningful, high-quality connections and resources are available for educators and their students. Representing a range of experiences and identities themselves and in relationship to the students and communities they serve, members of the Teacher Advisory Council collaborate over a six-month program to create timely and engaging lesson plans, programs, and professional development resources for educators.
 
The Teacher Advisory Council members for 2023 are Fayola Fair, Essex Street Academy, Manhattan; Nick Kozak, Manhattan Hunter Science HS, Manhattan; Daniela Lopez, East #newyork Family Academy, Brooklyn; Tamra Plotnick, The James Baldwin School, Brooklyn; Jason Rondinelli, Montauk I.S. 223, Brooklyn; Kendra Sibley, Bronx Community Charter School, Bronx; and Tiara Torres, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom School, Bronx.
 
Resources developed by past cohorts of the Teacher Advisory Council are available on the New Museum's website at this link. Further information on the New Museum's Department of Education and Public Engagement and its expansive work across teacher and student resources, family programs, artist talks and activations, and artist residencies is available at here.