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The Creativity & Connection at the Fall Kill Creek project engaged Poughkeepsie youth and community residents of the Northside Poughkeepsie neighborhood at the 80 Pershing avenue site along the Fall Kill creek. Through this project, local youth involved in the Media, Arts and Design Lab (MADLab) program developed public service campaigns and public art installations to serve as catalysts for pollution prevention, environmental stewardship, and urban renewal.
Participants increased their own knowledge about environmental harms to the Fall Kill Creek, promoted pollution prevention, and raised awareness through the youth produced public service announcements and environmental awareness campaigns comprised of video PSAs, radio PSAs, and infographics that were distributed to children, teens, and adults throughout the City, creating multigenerational ambassadors for the environment.
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Since the COVID pandemic began in March, The Art Effect has pivoted our normal service models to include more virtual options, adjust program schedules, and serve more people through an incredible amount of hard work, talent, time, and creative thinking. During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Art Effect was one of the only agencies in Poughkeepsie providing services to youth through remote media and visual arts workshops, online courses, virtual events and remote studio recordings for Radio Uprising!
Students who used to go to WVKR studio at Vassar College transitioned to remote recordings pre-produced before our Thursday broadcast time in April 2020. Instead of recording shows in person, students interacted over Zoom and edited the audio from the Zoom recorded discussions that were sent to the studio for airing. As much as the youth have missed being together in the studio, the new virtual program model allowed for different generations of students and youth from across the county to come together for a discussion each week.
Tune in to 91.3fm on Thursdays from 4-5pm EST or visit the live stream on www.wvkr.org
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Students taking part in the winter 2021 workforce intensive learned how to live-stream and pre-record video and podcast content.
Students produced several episodes of Radio Uprising on topics such as The State of School, favorite foods, favorite music and sexuality, the next generation on college, poverty, favorite holiday, and the Trolley Barn Curatorial Team!
Podcasts will be airing on WVKR 91.3 fm in the next few weeks, stay tuned!
“Being a member of PKX has provided me an opportunity to give the power of photography to the City of Poughkeepsie.” -Harrison
Harrison is a senior at Poughkeepsie High School. Post-graduation, he aspires to be a professor of sociology. He loves photography because it allows him to capture the beauty in our world that most of us overlook. Photography calls him the power of shifting one’s perception. Over the past four months, He has dedicated his time to neighbors to figure out what they need. Harrison has learned advocating for one’s community is the first step in changing its image.
Meet Destiny Kearney
“I love being able to participate in laying the stepping stones of the development of a youth arts empowerment zone in the City of Poughkeepsie. The PKX Festival will truly highlight the wonders that exist in the city, and I’m excited to see the community come together to make it happen” – Destiny
Destiny Kearney is a New York-based artist who recently graduated from Bowdoin College, with a Bachelor of Arts in Africana Studies, Art History, and Visual Arts.Embarking on her post-grad journey, Kearney joins the Art Effect team as the Trolley Barn Fellow. She will be with us for the next two years as a member of the first cohort of Lead for Poughkeepsie Fellows, a branch of the Lead for America program.
The PKX Youth committee worked closely with a curatorial advisory committee, made up of Hudson Valley curators and art professionals to create a list of potential featured artists to consider based on the theme, and the scope of their practice in conjunction with the mission of the festival. After youth researched and sorted through applicants, they decided that BoogieRez would be the perfect choice for the first PKX Festival in September 2022. Stay tuned for more info coming soon on how you can work with BoogieRez and the PKX Committee this spring!
“Our mission is to share our love of creativity and ill visuals with the WORLD. To Inspire, to Impact and Empower one another while having hella FUN time together through our growth, challenges, and experiences.” – BoogieRez
The talented Forge Media youth that worked this shoot were Jae Jones (camera operator), Bara Aljamal (camera operator), & Aleria Gonzalez (floor manager, camera operator). Forge Media worked with David Heningston Sounds to help bring this live event together. There were performances from Center 4 Creative Education, Dominican Sound, & Kazi Oliver & the Drums of Africa. Learn more how Forge Media supports local youth in media arts and production, here.
Posted January 19th, 2022 — Filed under Forge Media
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Forge specializes in creating video content that stands out from the crowd and brings client’s concepts to life! All proceeds from Forge Media support our apprentices through this creative media mentorship program. Services include:
Virtual Events Web Content Documentaries Educational Videos Commercials
A series of “Place Making” sculptures built and designed by The Art Effect’s MADLab (Media And Design Lab) youth workforce students under the direction of The Art Effect to cultivate a sculpture memorial garden to symbolize the scales of justice, a tree for growth, and a stronger queen city. Each piece is installed amongst plants and adorned with imagery alluding to Poughkeepsie, personalized statements for strength, harmony, and racial injustice. The memorial garden was inspired in part as a tribute to Maurice Gordon, a Poughkeepsie resident. The planter sculptures are intended to spark conversation and stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement. The sculptures are partially funded by Arts Mid-Hudson and Hudson River Housing, with plants donated by the “I am Citizen” Project.
