Listening as a Creative Catalyst

A one-year interdisciplinary MA program training students in oral history method and theory. www.oralhistory.columbia.edu

Columbia Oral History MA Program

LISTENING AS A CREATIVE CATALYST with Fernanda Espinosa 
Creative interventions and the use of visual language can be powerful tools in reclaiming meaning and space, and making visible sites of resistance and self-determination. This workshop is meant to get us thinking on using oral histories and, most importantly, the act of listening and interpreting, to shape and inspire creative interventions with an emphasis on cultural organizing and visual art. We will use different examples to understand some of the practices involved in these types of projects and use participatory exercises to engage some of the specific questions generated during the workshop. 
Fernanda Espinosa (OHMA 2015) is based in Brooklyn, New York. She has been generating, listening, and interpreting oral histories to inform creative public interventions that bring visibility to social justice issues and that aspire to act as platforms of resistance and dialogue. Fernanda is a co-founder and Steward of the group People’s Collective Arts//Colectivo de Arte Popular, recipient of the 2015 Rauschenberg Foundation Artists as Activists award. She co-founded Cooperativa Cultural 19 de enero (CC 1/19), an art and oral history collective recipient of The Laundromat Project’s 2015 Create Change commission arts award, and was one of twelve 2016 national Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies fellows.
*For our oral history workshops, please pay what you can. We suggest $30 for students, recent graduates, or others who are financially constrained, while we suggest that professionals and those with more resources should pay more. All profits from these events go towards our annual merit scholarship for an OHMA students.

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