Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy
Post Date November 19, 2012
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By Ashok Sinha, Founder, Cartwheel Initiative

Last weekend, fellow Cartwheeler Geoff Green and I traveled to the community of Rockaway Beach to volunteer our efforts to a community affected immensely by Hurricane Sandy.  We both wanted to contribute our skills as photographers, and provided affected homeowners with photographs of their property damage for insurance claims.  After a whole day of meeting local residents, going into their homes and seeing the destruction firsthand, we were overwhelmed but happy that we could do our part, no matter how small.

As …

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Class Portrait: The Photography Workshops

Class Portrait: The Photography Workshops
Post Date July 31, 2012
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by Photography Instructor Katie Humphries

Preparing for the photography curriculum in Sri Lanka, I spent a rigorous 6 months reading about the culture, the history, the geography, and the art. I watched films. I stood in front of my classes here in NYC and pretended that none of them could speak English. I started using my hands in conversation more than I normally do. I even followed cricket– well, for about a week.

But, predictably, none of these things adequately prepared …

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Innovation Yields New Rhythms in the Music Workshops

Innovation Yields New Rhythms in the Music Workshops
Post Date June 04, 2012
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by Music Workshop Instructor Billy Fox

Life is still very tough for the kids we worked with in Sri Lanka. When you look at their radiant smiles in our photographs, it’s difficult to imagine the material and emotional challenges they continue to face. And despite impressive rebuilding efforts in the northern territories, the schools we visited are primitive by most standards. Classrooms are open air, plumbing is outdoors, and in one case, the school had no electricity and even lacked drinking water on one of the …

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Painting, Tearing, Sharing, and Recreating In the Collage Workshop

Painting, Tearing, Sharing, and Recreating In the Collage Workshop
Post Date June 01, 2012
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by Collage Workshop Instructor Lara Kisielewska

My workshop was collage, and we’d prepared five different types of collages for the kids to create over the course of each workshop. The first was really fun, it involved using 12 non-traditional implements to paint with, such as feathers, sponges, corks, and string. We made about a hundred quick paintings that were like textile patterns, using six colors and 12 implements, and set them aside to dry. On the second day of the workshop we cut them apart and …

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Portrait Sessions

Post Date December 27, 2011
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One of the many ways we engaged the students participating in our workshops was to set up a location portrait studio. In fact, we set up two of them at every school we visited. Below are a few images from the session at Mallavi Central …

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Experimenting with Identity

Experimenting with Identity
Post Date December 13, 2011
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A few examples from the graphic design workshop … the objective for the curriculum was to use traditional illustration and graphic design techniques to ultimately create a logo representative of each child with the hopes of them developing a sense of personal identity.

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