APPRENTICE(s) will work with artist on several projects over the course of the eight weeks. Apprentice will assist in the design and production of a multimedia book project; duties include using In design to create a draft of follow up to 2018 publication UPSTATE GIRLS: What Became of Collar City. Apprentice will be listed in production credits.. The book accesess video scrapbooks via QR codes on the pages and the production of the audio and video scrapbooks would be part of the production of the project. The apprentice will assist in several conceptual photography shoots in addition to the studio work. ARTIST BIO Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother, multi platform documentary maker, Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Nominee whose lived experiences of being incarcerated throughout her youth, have been the driving force behind her life’s work. Over the past thirty years Kenneally’s long form, immersive collaborations with families who live where social, economic, and emotional marginalization intersect with The America Criminal Justice Systems have produced visceral portraits of the landscape of intergenerational inequity and trauma navigated by the most vulnerable among us. Kenneally’s books Money Power Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood Chanel Photographics 2004 and Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City Regan Arts, 2018 became the foundation for an array of participatory public art projects in those communities. In 2017 Kenneally founded A Little Creative Class Inc. a 501c3 with mission to support young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods on their journey to discover artistic voice and authentic self. Kenneally received her GED from The State of New York in 1977. She has a BS in Photojournalism and Sociology, University of Miami, 1977 and an MA in Studio Art and Art Education from New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, 2001. Kenneally is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine. She is currently working on her third book. Grown Upstate, The Legacy of Love in Collar City engages with a third generation born of collaborators from the Upstate Girls 2004-2018 publication.
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This opportunity has been pre-vetted as a Yale Arts Apprenticeship (https://ocs.yale.edu/apprenticeship) with potential funding through the Summer Experience Award (SEA). Students on financial aid at Yale can find more about this funding opportunity at https://ocs.yale.edu/sea.
SEA-eligible students will be given priority, so please include information regarding your funding plans with your cover-letter.
