Community Voices
Wide Angle’s Fee-for-Service Programming
The Programs Team offers a wide range of fee-for-service workshops, trainings, and media-arts centered professional development. Our trainings and workshops are either for youth only and centered on their education and skill attainment or for adult educators and other youth-serving professionals- who want to utilize media arts to support their curricula creation and facilitation.
The Programs Team is part of Wide Angle Youth Media, a nonprofit that uses media education to inspire creativity and instill confidence in young people ages 10-24, empowering them with skills to navigate school, career, and life.
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PROGRAMS OFFERED
Maker Space Development: Wide Angle can help your organization design a media space that fits your budget and spacial limitations.
Media Arts Based Professional Development for Teachers: Our Wide Angle Educators facilitate workshops that show your teachers how to incorporate media education into their day to day curriculum to enhance subject matter acquisition and skills development.
School Based Art Residencies for Middle and High School Students: Let the Wide Angle teaching team take over your art class for two weeks! Students will receive photography and design basics that culminate to an individual project to show off those skills.
Youth-Centered Media Arts Programming: Wide Angle brings a short-term program to your location to support your organization's ongoing youth development goals.
Youth-Centered Professional Development Workshops: Wide Angle provides professional development workshops that center youth experiences and are grounded anti-racist and anti-oppression practices around professionalism. Workshops include: Public Speaking, Interviewing Skills, and Code Switching & Bias Training.
WORK WE’RE PROUD OF
Youth-Centered Media Arts Programming
Typography Portraits
Building enthusiasm and personal connection to themes in the book We Speak for Ourselves by Baltimore author D. Watkins, students in this three-session course learned how to take portrait photographs with creative lighting techniques, write keyword personal memoirs through a variety of writing exercises, and utilize photo editing software to combine their text and images.
Youth-Centered Media Arts Programming
Black Joy - Photography Workshops
In the Black Joy Photography workshops, students explore image making from the lens of photographers who center their work on depicting Black Joy, such as Adrienne Waheed and Ken McFarlane. With this inspiration, students respond to the prompt "What is Black Joy?" and consider poses, props, and locations that will support them in making photographs.
School Based Art Residencies for Middle and High School Students
Postcard Design: Photography + Graphic Design
In the Postcard Design workshop, students consider image making as responding to two questions: What brings me joy, and What brings me comfort. With a partner, students then use props, forced perspective and collaboration to create a portfolio of images to design with. Next, students use graphic design principles and Adobe Photoshop Express to insert text, use collage techniques, and emphasize their message.
Testimonials
“Our summer photography enrichment with Wide Angle was incredible. I have never seen a group respond so quickly with immediate enthusiasm for a project. There also is rarely an activity you can offer 20+ teens in which EVERYONE is engaged and excited to be participating—Wide Angle was that unicorn for us. Our students voted it their favorite activity of the summer and added that next year they would like to double the time we dedicate to photography. Looking back I think it was a mix of getting to use fun technology (cameras), some independence in how they approached the project, being able to be creative, being able to be outside the classroom, and their easy approach to instruction and guidance that made it such a success.”
Kim Jolley, Teen Programs Coordinator, Village Learning Place
“Wide Angle Youth Media have been incredible partners with Baltimore County Public Schools. We have worked together to expand access to media arts education and career pathways in Arts & Media Industry for students across the district. In the 21-22 School year Wide Angle was critical to an initiative to help address staffing challenges through creative partnerships. Together we were able to develop a program model that supported and engaged students and expanded the capacity of a new teacher at Stemmers Run Middle School. We look forward to continuing and expanding our work with Wide Angle Media so that our students can expand their voices to become leaders in careers in arts and media.”
Sherri Fisher, Director of CTE & Fine Arts, Baltimore County Public Schools
“My experience with Wide Angle within my classroom exceeded my expectations. The guest photographers engaged students with their knowledge of the principles of photography and motivated them to use the skills during our photoshoot. Through this experience students were able to connect their understanding of changing the narrative of our city and people of color by expressing what Black Joy looked like to them through photos.”
Theresa Bruce, Secondary Social Studies, 8th Grade, KIPP
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