Creative spaces/contested spaces: reinterpreting italian american public art in new york city ["creative spaces/contested spaces" will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning through…

The Fashion Institute of Technology received a $182,444 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to deliver a series of one-week residential workshops exploring Italian American public art in New York City. The "Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces" project will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning by examining how monuments, landmarks, and public artworks are created, interpreted, and become sites of conflict, featuring diverse perspectives from history, art, social science, labor, and city planning. Participants will share ideas and resources to develop learning materials for dissemination on web-based platforms, enabling educators to incorporate critical, nuanced understandings of public artworks and their histories into higher education curricula. The project period runs from October 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024.

Creative spaces/contested spaces: reinterpreting italian american public art in new york city ["creative spaces/contested spaces" will strengthen place-based humanities teaching and learning through an exploration of italian american public art in new york city. IT will examine how monuments and landmarks are created, interpreted, forgotten, or become sites of conflict. One-week residential workshops will be held at fit and at sites throughout NYC. Content will feature diverse perspectives from history, art, social science, labor and city planning, with an examination of the immigrant experience and how socio-cultural concerns relate to aesthetics, power and belonging. The program will include lectures, site visits, readings, film and discussion groups. Participants will share ideas and resources, with the intention of disseminating learning materials nationally on web-based platforms. Ultimately, the workshops will enable educators to devise resources for place-based learning in higher education that offer critical, nuanced understandings of public artworks and their histories.]