Picture The World: Community Visual Methods Workshop

48 New Street,Newark NJ 07102

04 March, 2023

Description

Curious about using photography or other visual means to engage your community in difficult discussions? Have a photographic research project in mind, but need some additional training in the theory behind it? This free community workshop series is for you! This intensive workshop series will explore the role of vision and image in thinking about race and politics in New Jersey, the United States, and beyond. The medium of utilizing photography allows participants to dive deeper and more intimately into taboo and hard to discuss topics like race and politics. Led by two Rutgers University-Newark education professors and photovoice researchers, the workshop focuses on providing emerging scholars with the theoretical understanding, methodological knowledge, and tools necessary to be critical consumers of and producers of visual ethnographic research. We explore photovoice, photoelicitation, and how visual ethnography can also be a catalyst for participatory action research. This intensive workshop will prepare community scholars to be critical consumers of visual ethnographic research, while also being able to know how to produce a visual methods research project. The workshop will be conducted over three Saturdays and will consist of the following: Class 1: February 4th - Background of Visual Methods and PhotovoiceClass 2: February 18th - Photoelicitation and the CommunityClass 3: March 4th - Putting all the Pieces TogetherThe series is designed as an intensive visual research methods and design course that is open to all community members: high school, undergraduate, and graduate students; teachers; community members; and the like. Join us! Light refreshments will be served. Funding provided by the Center for Race and Politics in America, Rutgers University-Newark.