Please note The Friends of Photography is permanently closed and all of the educationsal programs are now non-active This page can be viewed as the archive of The Friends of Photography Educational Program.
New!! Teams Teach: a hands on history of photography
Women in Recovery Photography Program
Look Again! Photography in the Classroom
Ansel Adams Curriculum
Resource for Teachers
Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre
The Friends of Photography
Education Programs
Beginning with photography
workshops in the 1960s, The Friends' education program has evolved
to include a larger and more diverse audience ranging from schoolchildren
to seniors. The Friends is committed to developing a broad range
of audiences for photography through the presentation of programs
that link traditional forms of exhibition with specially-created
educational projects that often take place outside the walls
of the Friends of Photography. Educational activities are designed
with these goals in mind:
• To promote an understanding of visual communication and visual literacy;
• To increase our involvement with surrounding communities by creating new partnerships; and
• To design and implement innovative programs that use photography to reach new audiences.
Look Again!
Photography
in the Classroom
This museum/school collaboration integrates both the
technical and interpretive aspects of photography into the California
educational framework and teaches students to appreciate, interpret,
analyze and create visual works through an exciting range of
hands-on outreach activities.
The Look Again! program benefits from the participation of a lively group of volunteers. If you live in the Bay Area and would like information on how you can get involved, please call Julia Brashares, Director of Education, at 415-495-7000, ext. 319.
Photo: Creating sunprints is one of the Look Again! lessons.
HANDS
ON HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
High School Docent Educational Outreach Program
The Friends of Photography High School Docents helped to develop and implement a new educational outreach program. Since November 1999 the docents have demonstrated simple photographic principles in local elementary through high school classes and community spaces.
Our Hands on History of Photography activities demonstrate how photography was first discovered and developed to be the art form it is today. These four simple activities work together to model the first photographs and illustrate the values of light and light sensitivity which make photography possible.
Our web page should allow educators to duplicate these activities.
CREDITS
We have to thank The Exploratoreum and particularly the staff of the Teachers' Institute for the pin hole viewers curriculum, Deb Klotchko, our generous director, for historic data, and Julia Brashares for her support, Scott Clark for the untiring assistance and web production, and High School Docent Coordinator, Meredith Charpantier for putting it all together.
The creators of the web page include:
Rachel Been, Tori Broussard, Eric Chehab, Ronnie Chouteau, Caitlin Collentine, Linh Dang, Phillix Fong, Nicole Hsiang, Frances Lieu, Barrie McClune, Zander Olsson, Bonny Quach, Jeremy Ranharter, Zac Rose, Cristian Sanchez, Montana Sotomayor, Demetria William
Adult Programming
Adult programming includes: evening
lectures, symposia, docent tours, seminars and an ongoing series,
Snapshots: Lunchtime Talks on Photography. Current listings are
included in The Friends of Photography's newsletter re:view
which is sent to all members.
Photo: Adult participants learn to hand color photographs at a seminar taught by Jo Whaley.
Workshops
for Educators
The Friends of Photography's
Workshops for Educators are one-day sessions for primary and
secondary teachers who are interested in incorporating lessons
that foster visual literacy into their curriculum.
Resources
for Educators
The Friends of Photography provides a variety of hand-ons
educational materials for teachers free of charge. Materials
such as Early History of Photography Kits may be taken out on
loan. The Early History of Photography Kit includes daguerreotypes,
ambrotypes and tintypes; students play detective by matching
clues to the appropriate artifacts.
Photo: Early History of Photography Kit.
Ansel Adams
Curriculum
Resource For Teachers
This Resource presents a multifaceted
view of Adams and his accomplishments in the fields of photography
and environmental conservation. The Resource integrates both
the technical and interpretive aspects of photography into the
California educational framework and teaches students to appreciate
and analyze photographs. Designed for grades 4 - 8, the Ansel
Adams Curriculum Resource includes hands-on activities that teach
concepts relating to the arts, history, social studies and creative
writing.
To obtain your free copy of the Ansel Adams Curriculum, please phone Julia Brashares at 415.495.7000, extension 319.
The Ansel Adams Curriculum Resource for Teachers includes lesson plans, student activity sheets and slides of Adams' work to support classroom discussion.
Community
Partnerships
The Friends offers free
photography classes for children, youth, and adults through partnerships
that have been established with numerous community organizations
and local schools in San Francisco.
Bayview Opera
House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre
Since January 1998, The Friends has offered photography
classes at the Bayview Opera House, a community based non-profit
organization that serves youth in the Bayview/Hunters' Point
community. Dolores Gray teaches classes utilizing alternative
processes such as molasses prints, and students explore neighborhood
history through archive research and their own photographic documentation
of the Bayview Hunters' Point area. Support for this partnership
program is provided by the California Arts Council's Artists
in Communities grant.
Photo: Student portrait.
Horace Mann
Academic Middle School
Since 1994, The Friends of Photography has co-sponsored
after-school photography classes at this Mission District school.
Currently, instructors Angie Mei and Angela Lewis teach darkroom
classes which incorporate black and white processing, mixed media
projects, and computer generated imagery.
Photo: Dancing Girls. Student work by Johanna Rodriguez, 6th grade, Horace Mann Middle School.
Community
Images
The
Friends of Photography has co-sponsored the activities of Community
Images (formallyYouth Photo Workshop) since 1995. In weekend
workshops, Bruce Akizuki teaches Asian youth photography with
an emphasis on photojournalism. The goals of the class include
learning about the Chinatown community as well as building multicultural
understanding between other commmunities of color.
Photograph by Linda Seto.
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