Workers Art Coalition travels to Lima Peru for Worker Education Conference

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SPQ Alumni Barrie Cline (’14) and the Workers Art Coalition (WAC) traveled to the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations 22nd General Conference: Solidarity or Precarity? The Role of Workers Education in building the 21st Century global labor movement.

They recieved a grant the Van Arsdale Center and presentated on WAC projects to date proposing collaboration workers public art project in concert with the International Labor Organizations centennial in 2019.  Plumbers built a preliminary pvc structure which Jaime Lopez customized and lit up for the purposes of framing a street theatre project that Namrata Bali of the Self Employed Women’s Association in India, collaboratively created with conference participants from all over the world. Stay tuned for updates on future collaborations.

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Sol Aramendi (’14) is Collaborating with Day Laborers to Create a Wage Theft App!

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Sol Aramendi, 2015 A Blade of Grass Fellow, and SPQ alumni, is developing a “Wage Theft app” as a result of a joint effort between artists, day laborers, community organizers and lawyers.

The Spanish-language platform for Android and iPhones came to be after five sessions in which day laborers gave ideas for a digital resource that would accommodate their needs. The app, which will cost $10,000 to design, will be developed by Cornell University and should be out in September.

Read more here.

SPQ Alum José Serrano-McClain Teaching Social Practice at Moore College & NYU

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José Serrano-McClain (SPQ ’15) is now an Adjunct Professor at the New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in the Department of Art and Art Professions teaching a course titled ‘Contemporary Art and Community Partnerships’, one of 3 core courses for the new MA in Art, Education, and Community Practice. In addition Serrano-McClain is teaching in the new MFA in Community Practice at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia.

Learn more about the artist and community organizer here.