The Bronx Museum

Jasmine Wahi, Holly Block Social Justice Curator, discusses one of her favorite works in the Museum’s collection A Time of Innocence by street photographer Jamel Shabazz. 

Want to learn more about Jamel Shabazz?  Watch Teen Council’s interview with Jamel Shabazz.

Patrick Rowe, Director of Education, discusses The Bronx Museum’s Darkwater collaboration with Tim Rollins and K.O.S. who led an experiential workshop with I.S. 218 about W.E.B. Dubois 1920 autobiographical novel.

Nell Klugman, Education Programs Manager, shares one of her favorite pieces from the Museum’s collection, Glenn Ligon’s Runaways, as seen in the 2018 exhibition Dialogues: Tim Rollins & K.O.S. and Glenn Ligon.

In this Staff Story, Olivia Pohl, the Museum’s former Executive Coordinator, shares her experience of the exhibit The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop. 

In this Staff Story, Bronx Museum Trustee Joshua Stein discusses the work of Cuban-born, New York modernist painter Emilio Sanchez, and his renowned depictions of street scenes in The Bronx.

Part one features an interview with Gonzalo Casals, then Executive Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum. Leslie-Lohman is the only art museum to exhibit and preserve artwork that speaks about the LGBTQIA experience.

Part two features interviews with Hiram Maristany and Miguel Luciano. Maristany is co-founder and photographer of the Young Lords in New York. Luciano is the creator of Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio, a public art project featuring Maristany’s photographs installed in East Harlem neighborhoods where Young Lord actions took place.

Part one, explores what civic engagement looks like in The Bronx and beyond and how youth can get involved! 

Part two, interview with artist, organizer, and educator Shellyne Rodriguez.

Part three, interview with Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters of The Black School.

Part four, interview with Brooklyn-based performance, video, and installation artist Amy Khoshbin

Hear poets Bobby González and Mahogany L. Browne share their poetry, written in response to Shaun Leonardo’s exhibit The Breath of Empty Space, 

Based on a graphic novel by John Jennings in collaboration with David Brame and Esperanza Bey. Soundtrack by Moon Medicine. Animation by Dan Rowe.

Directed by Terrance Nance.  Soundtrack by Moon Medicine.