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Current Projects
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issue: Arts Education
Dates Of Project: August 2012 - January 2013
This year at Sitar Arts Center, students "read" photos from all around the world, examining photography techniques used, like composition and juxtaposition, as well as the overall message. Students at Sitar identified the proposed arts education requirements in D.C. public schools, which included loose language that had the possibility to impact arts education, as an issue they...
Location: Washington, D.C.
Dates Of Project: Ongoing
Critical Exposure is partnering with Wilson High School's Multi-Ethnic Concerns Club for the 2012-2013 school year. Students founded the club last school year in response to the racism they witnessed in the classroom. Now, with Critical Exposure involved, students are learning photography and advocacy tactics to document and eliminate racism and discrimination from the classroom.
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Location: Washington, D.C.
Issue: Libraries
Dates Of Project: Ongoing
Critical Exposure recently finished up a program working with both 9th and 10th graders in an after-school program at Eastern SHS. The students went through the process of selecting an issue, gathering evidence through their photos, and presenting their demand to the principal, which was to secure a librarian at their school next year. Their principal is definitely on board with this and has...
Location: Washington, D.C.
Dates Of Project: Ongoing
This school year, students in Critical Exposure’s Fellowship program are focused on ending the School-to-Prison-Pipeline by fighting to implement Restorative Justice programs in all D.C. public high schools. This is the Fellowships first ever citywide campaign and our youth have thrown themselves into their work; documenting the effects of the S.T.P.P. on their lives and in their schools,...
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issue: Library, Peer Jury, Educational Opportunities
Dates Of Project: Ongoing
This Spring semester, Critical Exposure has embarked on an exciting new opportunity at The Washington Metropolitan High School. We are now teaching five days a week, which means more opportunities to develop relationships within the class and more time to develop our campaign around the issues that arise during class discussions.
During the Fall 2012 semester, Critical Exposure...
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issue: Arts education, school discipline, extracurricular activities
Dates Of Project: Ongoing
Critical Exposure began working with students at Luke C. Moore High School in Northeast D.C. in the fall of 2010. Since then Critical Exposure has worked with a new group of youth each semester. Their advocacy campaigns have focused on arts education, school discipline policies, extracurricular opportunities and other aspects of improving their school environment. During the 2012-2013...
Location: Washington, D.C.
Dates Of Project: Ongoing
Critical Exposure is currently working with a group of students in collaboration with the creative writing class at Ballou SHS. The students have written “I Am From” poems reflecting their lives and the communities of which they are a part. We are currently working with the students to illustrate their poems through photography and the students are learning the basic techniques of photography as...
