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Sketching the City The concept behind the current exhibition Sketching the City stems from the work of 19th century English writer Charles Dickens. Dickens is very well known in the English-speaking literary world and is best known for his very popular novels Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations. In one of Charles Dickens’s early collections of short stories, Sketches by Boz, Dickens, under the pen name ‘Boz,’ wrote about the lives of contemporary Londoners. These short stories and even Dickens’s longer works do not convey an abstract or overly elaborate view of life, but instead show life exactly as it would be for an early 19th century Englishman and woman. In the fall of 2011, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the British Council formed a partnership and held an open call to all New York City teenagers to ‘sketch’ – in the form of an artwork or writing piece – a scene that describes how they view New York City or their respective neighborhoods. Like Dickens’s works, the pieces selected for this art exhibition illustrate an everyday reality that is personal to its creator and yet still relatable to any viewer. These artworks exemplify the views and experiences of the fine artists, photographers, and writers of their respective communities, including the landscape, objects, and various members of their neighborhoods in New York City. Curators and Selection Panel The curators were selected from The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Teen Council alumni. All curators and selection panelists have recently graduated from high school and are currently pursuing careers in the visual arts. Amanda Eubanks Travis Hewitt-Roach Latoya Weeks A special thanks to Katherine Casado for sitting on the selection panel. Dickens in Pieces - Teacher Workshop On Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday on February 7, 2012, high school teachers from all over New York City attended a professional development workshop as well as a birthday reception at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Local Dickens expert and Seton Hall Universtiy professor Dr. Jonathan Farina conducted the workshop, “Dickens in Pieces” as a step-by-step process for teaching Dickens to high school students.
British Council and Dickens 2012 In 2012 the British Council worked on a global program of events across 50 countries to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth. In the United States, the British Council USA partnered with The Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York on Sketching the City, a project linking local communities with the modern legacy of Charles Dickens’s writing. Drawing inspiration from one of Dickens’s early works, Sketches by Boz, Sketching the City encourages high school students to use Dickens’s social realist writing and corresponding illustrations as a springboard for their own creative writing, photography and artist expression. As Dickens did in London more than a century ago, local teens have ‘sketched the city’ of New York, capturing the atmosphere of one of the world’s most dynamic, diverse cities. This zine collects together those sketches, showcasing a breadth of young talent and emulating a modernday New York ‘Sketches by Boz’. The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international non-profit organization for cultural relations and education opportunities. We build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people worldwide. In the US, we increase recognition of the variety of higher education opportunities available in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and facilitate institutional collaborations between the US and UK. Through transatlantic artistic partnerships, we introduce Americans to high-quality, groundbreaking creative work from the UK and our climate change programs support a network of young leaders who are committed to tackling climate change globally and in their own communities. We also develop initiatives that give a voice to the next generation of leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, encouraging them to work together to explore solutions to current and future global issues. With offices in Washington, New York and Los Angeles, the British Council USA also builds global partnerships with US-based institutions to support our work around the world. For more information, please visit www.britishcouncil.org/usa.
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