September Newsletter: Education Program

The Gottesman Libraries Education Program informs students, faculty and staff about the latest thinking in education, in ways that engage members of the community with one another and with a broad range of educational experts. The program also provides understanding of work being done throughout the College. Read more about offerings in September.

 

Tours

Welcome new and returning students! As we usher in the Fall Semester, we invite you to join us on a friendly, informative walk around the Gottesman Libraries, from Everett Cafe to the 5th Floor Stacks. You'll become acquainted with library resources and services;  see mixed-use reading and group rooms; collaborative and quiet study spaces;  Offit Gallery; and more -- and last, but not least, be privy to some of our best kept secrets.

 

Tuesday, September 3rd,  11am

Wednesday, September 4th,  12pm

Thursday, September 5th,  1pm

Friday, September 6th,  2pm

Monday, September 9th,  3pm

Tuesday, September 10th,  4pm

Wednesday, September 11th,  10am

Thursday, September 12th,  11am

Friday, September 13th,  12pm

 

All tours meet at the First Floor Library Services Desk and last approximately 45 minutes. They are open to current members and affiliates.

 

Orientations

Following up the Teachers College Scavenger Hunt in late August, we are excited to participate in additional orientations for new members.

 

Doctoral Student Welcome, Thursday, 9/12, 6:15-6:25pm

A meet-and-greet with new doctoral students, organized by the Office of Graduate Student Life and Development, includes a brief overview of the Gottesman Libraries. Come learn about essential services, particularly those pertaining to research and instruction: consultations, workshops, library information sessions, in-person and online support and chat, and much more.

Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where: Everett Lounge

 

New Faculty Orientation, Friday, 9/13, 12:30-1pm

Organized by the Office of the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, New Faculty Orientation includes an introduction to the Gottesman Libraries with an overview of its history and growth, and its special services to faculty. This offering is open to newly appointed faculty to allow them to become better acquainted with the many departments of the College.

Presenters:  Jennifer Govan, Library Director and Senior Librarian; Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian; Roshnara Kissoon, Reserves and Support Services Librarian

Those not able to attend the presentation by the library are encouraged to reach out to us via Ask a Librarian for further information.

Where: 305 Russell

 

Workshops

Regularly scheduled instructional offerings include workshops, tours, orientations, and course-specific instruction in coordination with staff and faculty of the College.

Your Research Journey is a five-part library workshop series to help guide you in your research throughout the semester, by providing you with manageable tools and resources to use along your journey. Whether this is your first time conducting research, or you are a well-seasoned researcher and looking for a refresher, each workshop introduces fundamental information to lay a foundation of knowledge on which you can build your scholarly work. While the workshops in this series are designed to build upon each other, you are welcome to attend any workshop individually. All are held on Wednesdays, 3-4pm.

Elevate Your Research builds upon the foundational series, Your Research Journey, by presenting valuable new topics, resources, and methodologies to make you an even stronger and highly proficient researcher. Held on Thursdays, 3-4pm, this series also invites deeper, collaborative work to strengthen academic research initiatives.

 

Charting Your Path, Wednesday, 9/18, 3-4pm

Graduate school research may feel daunting, but this foundational workshop will address the key concepts, strategies, and tools to help develop your research skills.  Charting Your Path will start with a broad overview of what library research can look like, including the terms you may come across in your journey. We will also cover how to use Gottesman Libraries and the Columbia University Libraries to access physical and digital resources; discuss reference management tools; show how to create strong keyword searches; and end with a review of strategies for better search results. Attendees will leave this workshop with the information needed to be successful in Library research across all research disciplines.

Presenter:  Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where: 101 Russell / Online

 

Searching Strategies, Wednesday,  9/25, 3-4pm

How do you know you are retrieving all the relevant information needed for your research topic? Do you find your catalog and database searches are not giving you the best results? This workshop will cover the strategies and concepts needed to give you confidence that you are finding the best results in your searches and take you beyond conducting simple searches by using tools to search in a variety of contexts. The workshop host will review how to use Educat+, the catalog of the Gottesman Libraries; CLIO, the Columbia University Libraries catalog; and database providers, like EBSCO and Proquest. We will then show how you can optimize your queries by using Boolean logic and punctuation to refine your search style and retrieve exactly the resources you seek.

Presenter: Ava Kaplan, Research and Instruction Librarian

Where: 101 Russell / Online

 

Course Resource Lists for Instructors, Thursday, 9/26, 3-4pm

Course Resource Lists is the Gottesman Libraries’ course reserves platform and collaborative tool for instructors and librarians to create and fulfill reading lists for degree-seeking students in courses taught each semester at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Course Resource Lists are available to instructors of all active, credit-bearing courses and can be found on the left navigation menu of their courses in Canvas. 

Please join us for this workshop in which we will cover all you need to know to place a library course reserve request or create a list yourself, and to navigate the New User Interface of Course Resource Lists, implemented in Summer 2024.

Faculty, course assistants, and professional staff are all welcome to attend.  

Presenter: Roshnara Kissoon, Reserves and Support Services Librarian

Where:  Online

 

Highlighted Databases

Every month we draw attention to select databases that strengthen learning, teaching, and research in academic areas and their relevance to current offerings and programs.

In September we highlight essential resource resources for all students at Teachers College, Columbia University. Read more on the Library's news feed.

 

Talks

We host a variety of talks, from book to guest to art, to encourage thinking , conversation, and action on a broad range of interesting and relevant topics and needs.

 

Art Talk: Let Me Think About It, with Carina Maye, Thursday, 9/12, 5:30-7pm

Please join us for the opening of Let Me Think About It, an exhibition created by Carina Maye, that presents five abstract mixed-media tapestries and playful toys to explore ways to tell and embrace personal stories.  The opening reception and art talk will incude a tour of the artworks exhibited; conversation with the artist Carina Maye, 2024 Myers awardee for the Gottesman Libraries' commissioned art program; and a special performance by Claremont Strings and Ensemble, our longest running professional group of musicians.

Bio

Carina D. Maye is an educator and artist from Marietta, Georgia. She is a fourth-generation graduate of Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art. She went on to attain a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, GA. While in her fifth year of college teaching, Carina completed a Master of Arts in Business Design and Arts Leadership at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, GA. She is currently completing her fifth year in the Doctor of Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, New York. As a researcher, Carina Maye is interested in the ways Black artists’ personal experiences intersect with their educational and professional experiences.

Carina worked with Teachers College, Art & Art Education Macy Art Gallery from September 2018 and served as the gallery coordinator and fellow from August 2019 to August 2022. She serves on the Academic Advising Team working directly with incoming and first year M.A. and Ed.M. students of the Art & Art Education Program. Carina Maye is a research assistant with the institute for Urban and Minority Education working directly under Dr. Davinia Gregory-Kameka. Her commitment to the arts includes serving in a co-directorship for the Community Arts Caucus of National Art Education Association. In 2022, Carina received an artist grant for $4,500 and a culminating exhibition with the Art & Art Education Program. As an artist, she has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. Carina’s work was purchased by Albany State University - Albany, GA (2011), Savannah College of Art and Design - Lacoste, France (2012), and Teachers College, Columbia University - New York, NY (2020, 2021).

Book Talk: Scaffolding the Language of Power: An Apprenticeship in Writing at the Doctoral Level, with Katie Strom, Monday, 9/23, 3:30-5pm

Please join Kathryn Strom in a discussion of her new book, Scaffolding the Language of Power: An Apprenticeship in Doctoral Level Writing, which uses a new genre-based method to teach doctoral students the skills to successfully write a doctoral dissertation or thesis in education and related social science fields. Offering a general framework with lessons and exercises to strengthen organization, scaffolding, argumentation, evidence use, synthesis skills, and academic voice, this book guides students through the essential steps of the research journey.

Kathryn (Katie) Strom is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay and Director of CSUEB’s Center for Research on Equity and Collaborative Engagement. Dr. Strom combines multiple critical and complex/neomaterialist theories to study teacher learning and practice (particularly in support of multilingual youth), as well as to advocate more broadly for more relational, difference-affirmative ways of thinking-being-doing in education and academia.

Dr. Strom has been a leader in bringing theories of critical complexity to the field of teacher education. Most recently, she led a double special issue on non-linear perspectives in teacher development in the journal Professional Development in Education, overseeing the curation and publication of a set of 22 papers using multiple complexity perspectives to develop knowledge regarding teacher learning, development, and ongoing support. She is also the co-author of Becoming-Teacher: A Rhizomatic Look at First Year Teaching and Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship: Critical Posthuman Methodological Perspectives. Dr. Strom has participated as senior research personnel in projects including the federally-funded International Consortium of Multilingual Excellence in Education (ICMEE) and NSF-funded STEAM Language, Learning, and Identity for Multilingual Learners project, and currently serves as a research advisor to the Smithsonian Institute’s Network for Emergent Socio-Scientific Thinking (NESST). In 2021, Dr. Strom co-founded the Posthuman Research Nexus, a global organization that supports and connects scholars engaging in posthuman and other complexity perspectives through monthly research socials, mentoring workshops, and reading groups.

Daniel Friedrich, Associate Professor of Curriculum, will welcome guests and moderate discussion. Dr. Friedrich is the recent recipient of the AERA Critical Engagement in Curriculum and Cultural Studies Mid-Career Award for his scholarship and service relating to the politics of schooling and teacher education, with an interdisciplinary, comparative and international approach and special focus on Latin America. 

Where: 306 Russell / Online

 

Book Club: Easy Beauty, by Chloé Cooper Jones, Tuesday, 9/24, 12-1pm

Join a group of enthusiastic readers to discuss great memoirs of relevance to education! Our first Book Club for Fall Semester is on Easy Beauty (New York, NY: Avid Reader Press, 2022) by Pulitizer Prize Finalist Chloé Cooper Jones who explores disability, motherhood, and her lifelong search for beauty.

"Moving through the world in a body that looks different than most, Jones learned on to factor "pain calculations" into every plan, every situation. She was born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, which affects both the stature and gait, and so her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as "less than." The way she has been seen--or not seen--has informed her lens on the world for her entire life... But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), she feels something in her shift, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she'd been denied and had denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. [This] is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes." -- Dust jacket

Fall Book Club is co-sponsored by the Graduate Writing Center. It meets once a month throughout the semester, with a program for three books. It is open to all students and staff, and the first 8 people to rsvp will receive a free copy.

Where: 305 Russel

 

Artivism

Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation aims to generate community through multidisciplinary teamwork for a more dignified and meaningful coexistence. The overarching goal is to nurture confidence in taking continuous action from wherever we are by means of reciprocity.

 

Poeartistry: Self Esteem Through Self Definition -The Art of Defining You, with Rage Sinclair and Bam Supremereign, Monday, 9/16, 4:30-5:30pm

In an effort to mainstream foundational lessons of social-emotional learning amongst the younger generation, Poeartistry equips users with intentional artistry. Through various resources such as curricular-based activities, this program takes a holistic and creative approach to a mindset that promotes high-level self-awareness. Poeartistry was created by licensed master social worker, educator, author, and performer Rage Sinclaire, also known as Gregory M. Singer, and award-winning producer, social worker, and executive producer of Poeartistry Dr. Lee Stone in 2002. Inspired by the comic books read by so many in their childhood, Rage Sinclaire has always been empowered by being exactly who he wants to be in life. This heroic disposition has allowed him to create a psychologically safe space where individuals of all ages can formulate an identity through self-esteem and art. Poeartistry had a fully orchestrated album for its poetry on music and all that can be explored through a word. With over 25 years in the music field, Dr. Stone has transformed the creativity of the musical genre to celebrate meaning and cognitive advancements.

Register Here.

Where: Online

 

Music as a Social Transformative Tool, with Santiago Carvajal and Flora Zenit, Monday, 9/23, 4:30-5:30pm

The presenters will be Zooming in from Costa Rica to discuss the power of music to inspire social change.

Santiago Carvajal is a multi-instrumentalist from Uruguay and Costa Rica. He has played in different venues in Europe and Latin America, playing diverse original music, including meditative, reggae, and fusion; he currently focuses on music production with local musicians.

Flora Zenit, a multi-instrumentalist musician, is deeply inspired by nature. Her facilitation of music improvisation circles and kirtan is a testament to her passion for medicinal music, meditation music, and world and Latin-American rhythms. Her technical degree in botany further fuels her art, making her a source of inspiration for many.

Santiago Carvajal and Flora Zenit will share three original songs and videos and discuss their initiatives, social transformation, and preservation of their environment. The music is inspired by the catchy rhythms and activist Afrobeat lyrics of Feka Kuti.

Their presentation will focus on the different cultures in the Caribbean that participate in these songs. Flora Martínez created the idea of the song begins with the phrase that is the driving force of this project: “A conscious people values what they have and defends it,” followed by Carlos Hidalgo, who makes an invocation in the Cabécar indigenous language, Memo —— and Mateo —— add the Caribbean sound in Creolle English. Together, they invite us to reflect on the true abundance and wealth of Puerto Viejo.

Santiago Carvajal, the arranger and producer of the song, has extensive experience in musical projects committed to community and has worked with many local and international artists:

• Beta Pardo and Mario Vega, Musicians of the band Sonámbulo Psicotropical;
• Renato Conejo, drummer of Mansa riddim;
• Fer Lagger of Fer Lagger Ska band; Claudio Ambroso of Plan B;
• Momo Valverde of Cantoamerica.

Puerto Viejo has it all: jungle, clean rivers, sea, live corals, wild animals, cultural diversity, picturesque architecture, fertile land, and clean air. We invite tourism development but not the deterioration of these riches, which is why Puerto Viejo and its surroundings are a paradise. It is an invitation to preserve the essence of the place, to rescue the identity, as well as an urgent call to become aware of the jewel that we have, that we have the responsibility to protect before it is too late, for harmonious and regenerative development on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

Where: Online

Register Here.

 

The Frailty of a Butterfly: My Journey Through Newborn Loss, with Mary Wasacz, Monday, 9/30, 4:30-5:30pm

Mary Wasacz will discuss her book, The Frailty of a Butterfly: My Journey Through Newborn Loss.

"Thus begins our journey with our baby with a life -threatening illness. Our children Mary Christina 3 and Johnny 5 years-old were involved with her which was so important to them. My husband was wonderful with Cathy Anne and our children. We had a lot of support from family, friends and our parish priest.

She changed my career in nursing from teaching to working with bereaved parents. Later I worked in hospice where I was the bereavement and spiritual care coordinator for 22 years. I also had a private practice as a family therapist, working with families. Sharing my story is a gift to those who have experienced something similar and perhaps have not been able to cope or share yet. It can also be helpful to their family, friends and the medical profession. My story fits into The Power of Art for Social Transformation because death is a taboo subject even in 2024. People tend to run from this topic.

Storytelling can help the reader increase their knowledge about death. Our daughter, Cathy Anne’s, brief life was vital to our family. It was important for us to bring her home to die, even though the cardiac surgeon advised against it in 1977. We were the first couple ever to bring home a dying baby from this prominent New York Hospital. When people read about and see the positive effect our dying baby had on our family, it can help other families suffering the impending loss of their baby. They are not alone. This is my story and I want to share it."

Register Here.

Where: Online

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Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is jointly sponsored by Adelphi University, Sing for Hope, and the Gottesman Libraries. A movement with committed social artivists, Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation, grew out of Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene, (Dio Press, 2019), edited by Teachers College alumni Courtney Weida and Carolina Cambronero-Varela, and Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, of Adelphi University. 

 

Live Music

The Everett Cafe Music Program sponsors performances by TC student and affiliated musicians. Come enjoy a variety of genres and styles! Please contact us if you are interested in playing!

We welcome solos, duets, and trios.

 

Nicholas DiMaria Trio, Wednesday, 9/4, 4-5pm

Nicholas DiMaria is a trumpeter, teacher, and composer based in New York City. He draws inspiration from multiple genres and art forms in his compositions and is continuously inspired by expressing visual art in a musical medium. His music is described by audiences as introspective, passionate, and eclectic; influenced by jazz, hip-hop, and classical music.

Nicholas has lead groups at Carnegie Hall, The Northeast Wine and Jazz Festival, The Syracuse Jazz Festival, The Central New York Pride Festival, and restaurants and clubs across New York State. He has also performed at The Great New York State Fair, The CNY January Jazz Festival, the Disneyland All-American College Band, and opened for Grammy-Winner Lalah Hathaway. Nicholas is well-adapted to playing with jazz ensembles, wedding bands, and funk groups. He currently holds a weekly performance residency at Oliva Tapas, NYC (Thursdays and Fridays from 6-8pm). Nicholas is also a faculty member at Larchmont Music Academy, where he teaches trumpet and a jazz ensemble. In 2020, he received his Bachelor's in Jazz Arts from Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Scott Wendholt, Ingrid Jensen, Jim McNeely, and Jon Faddis.

 

Claremont Strings and Ensemble, Wednesday, 9/25, 4-5:30pm

Our longest running, professional musical group. Claremont Strings and Ensemble features music for classical strings, from the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, to well known arias from the operas of Puccini and Bizet. You may hear a selection of continental Viennese waltzes and French cabaret. Musicians of The Claremont Strings Ensemble have performed collectively at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and throughout the Northeast, playing a diverse range of symphonic and chamber music, eclectic jazz, and gypsy swing. Wadsworth Strings, emanating from the Washington Heights area, is a division of Claremont Strings, founded by Vivian Penham, a graduate of the Juilliard School and Columbia University.

 

Book Displays

Book displays  are curated and designed by library staff to share the joy of books and reading, while encouraging greater awareness of available resources  and their significance to the Library and College.

 

Everett Cafe: What's Your Story?

Storytelling is an art form that dates back centuries, encompassing both oral and written traditions, and a well-told tale is usually one that reveals something relevant, significant, or universal to the human experience. Storytelling can take many forms: verbal, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic, with common elements for success: a natural arc -- or beginning, middle, and end; a clear narrative voice, or voices; compelling characters working to resolve inner conflict; a structured storyline, or plot; and insightful theme or themes.

This book display looks at the intersection of art, personal narrative, truth, and social issues, with information and guidance on individual creative expression in different mediums. From felting and crafting, to listening to and acting upon an account of someone else's experience, our stories are intended to be made and shared, and they help us find mutual interests, aspirations, and truths -- the common ground that binds our humanity.

What's Your Story? complements the new Offit Gallery exhibition, Let Me Think About It, by Teachers College doctoral student and 2024 Myers awardee Carina Maye, and it invites you to consider sharing your own experience in new, imaginative, and educational ways. At Everett Cafe, you'll find a new book collection every few weeks that relates to current events, education, or learning environments.

Where: Everett Cafe

 

Staff Picks: Urban Resilience in a Warming World: From Survival to Thrive

September's book display combines elements of climate change, sustainability, and urban resilience. It sheds light on how climate change affects urban environments and societies while offering insight into solutions and adaptations. It is curated by Yousif Adam, Library Associate / Reference and Reader Servies, and designed by Soeun Bae, Library Associate / Art and Design.

Were: Second Floor, Reading Room

 

Rocket Display: Autumnal Books for Children

Fall is in the air.  Enjoy a selection of best books about Autumn to celebrate the turn of the season and the symbolism it brings: change, nature, harvest, and maturity as we enter into a new academic year. Award winning and notable children's books from the collections are on display in the rocket bookcases to help launch a successful start and encourage reading among those whom we teach  -- and also learn from.

Where: Second Floor, Reading Room

 

Curiosity Cabinets: Enduring Cookbooks, Food for Thought

Featured in this display are examples of the extraordinary, eclectic range of holdings, from cookery books in the children’s literature and curriculum collections, through to the research collections and archives. As rich educational, social, and personal texts, they inform our food traditions, our histories and cultures. From the 1500s to the twentieth century, international in scope, these works inspire thinking about food preparation and service; the place of food in school and society, in times of war and peace; and the warmth that cookbooks bring – the welcome kitchen as household center – to illustrate the enduring subject of food and the importance of preserving masterpieces that were created to be consumed.

Curated and designed by library staff, Enduring Cookbooks, Food for Thought is made possible through the continuing generosity of the Myers Foundations. This display builds upon themes of storytelling and food presented in the adjoining Offit Gallery, as well as Everett Cafe.

Where: Third Floor, Reading Room

Read more.

 

News Displays

Need to keep current, look to the past, teach a topic? The Everett Cafe features daily postings of news from around the world, and also promotes awareness of historical events from an educational context. Be sure to check the Cafe News postings on the library blog.

 

Labor Day, Monday, 9/2

Patriot Day, Wednesday, 9/11

The Hobbit Is Published, Saturday, 9/21

Silent Spring Is Published, Friday, 9/27

 

Exhibits

Educational exhibitions are mounted in partnership with the Teachers College community and others with an interest in displaying unique and innovative educational materials, while also regularly showcasing Teachers College's Historical Art Collections. 

The library has several spaces in Russell Hall to exhibit diverse materials, and also features digital and web-based exhibitions when possible. 

 

Growth: Part One: Select Artworks from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art

The Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art is comprised of 361 paintings, drawings, prints, and collages made by adolescents aged 10 to 18 from 32 countries across the world. The Collection was first shown in 1967 at the High Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. It was assembled by Professor Edwin Ziegfeld, then Chair of Art and Education at Teachers College. Columbia University, who was also President of the International Society for Art Education, an organization he helped found in 1954 under the auspices of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

Under the direction of Macy Professor of Education Judith Burton and in collaboration with the Library, the Ziegfeld Collection was first shown at the Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College in 1999. Wrote Professor Emerita Maxine Greene, "this exhibition opene[d] new possibilities for those dedicated to the growth of children and, particularly, to enabling the adolescents of our time to find their way through the entangled forests of a difficult moment in history."(Catalog Introduction, The Ziegfeld Collection: International Artworks of Adolescents from the 1950s: A Celebration). Created after the Second World War, the artworks spoke to the significance of adolescents who would continue the adult work of reshaping the world, its values, aspirations, skills, and behaviors, over the coming decades.

Growth, Part One: Select Works from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art focuses on representations of the family, school, and friendships -- a foundation for growth of the individual. These topics are also reflected in the Everett Cafe book display, Memorable Memoirs, international in scope but more adult in perspective. We invite viewers and readers to consider their formative years, from the nucleus of the family and schooling, to social growth -- and to explore common human experiences and emotions as they relate to our understanding of ourselves; the world around us; and our development as human beings.

Growth: Select Works from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art will be displayed in three parts over the Summer and Fall of 2024.

Where: First Floor

When: Part One, through mid-September

 

Let Me Think About It, by Carina Maye

Let Me Think About It, an exhibition created by Carina Maye, presents five abstract mixed-media tapestries and playful toys to explore ways to tell and embrace personal stories.

The process is rooted in three core elements: Reflection, Storytelling, and Abstraction. The Let Me Think About It series begins Maye’s journey of deeply understanding personal family histories. Through inquiry, Maye uncovers five themes: Delight, Love, Gather, Dream, and Rise. She learns how those stories situate themselves in American history as she explores collected photographs and oral narratives. Maye employs visual arts learning methods to survey the possibilities for overt and underlying symbolism. In these discoveries, she reconfigures them into personal symbols and abstractions for viewers. 

 Each panel rests on one of the five themes and explores individual identity, symbolism, and reflective learning with familial artifacts. Through this body of work, Maye is toiling with the issues of public and private, as she equally considers the private yet public nature of being a teacher, researcher, artist, and member of a growing family unit. During a conference in 2021 and after hearing about Maye’s research exploring her personal experiences, a moderator asked, "How are you going to protect yourself? Since then, Maye has questioned the approaches to learning through memories and personal narratives when one must relinquish control of their stories to be consumed by the public.

 This new series of work builds on her Ritual of Memory Series, which was funded by the 2022 Artistic Dialogue Across Disciplines grant from the Art and Art Education Program at Teachers College. It connects equally to remembering, storytelling, teaching, learning, and archiving family rituals.

Where: Offit Gallery

When: September 6 -  October 20

Opening Reception & Art Talk: Thursday, September 12th, 5:30-7pm

Storytelling & Art Workshop: Thursday, October 10th, 6:30-8:30pm