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Working Classroom
Albuquerque, NM
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Working Classroom's Groups
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Go! Downtown Arts Festival 2008
33 members
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Volunteer ABQ
113 members
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Art in ABQ
243 members
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Art and Social Action
79 members
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Duke City Mamas
110 members
Working Classroom's Page
Profile Information
- Where I Live:
- DownTown
- About Me:
- Working Classroom is a multi-ethnic and diverse community of student and professional artists, actors and writers. Our programs offer a unique combination of academic and artistic education and social action. We provide professional development opportunities for talented young artists and actors from historically ignored communities and collaborate to create art for and about our diverse communities. As citizens of a larger global community, we promote peace, tolerance and respect for human rights at home and abroad.
- Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:
- The People
- My Website:
- http://workingclassroom.org
- What I'm Reading:
- Theater:
Professional theater training in English and Spanish
Working Classroom nurtures new voices and creates theater that is culturally diverse, socially accessible and economically affordable.
Our performance program features:
professional training
playwriting
bilingual theater productions
color-blind casting
directing and teaching residencies
local, national and international touring
casting services
The Working Classroom theater program is based on collaboration, innovation and cultural and social transformation. It provides aspiring actors with tuition-free professional training, produces thought-provoking, innovatively staged works that resonate with young, culturally diverse audiences and pushes the boundaries of youth theater while supporting emerging playwrights, directors and actors from historically ignored communities.
The street conservatory brings high quality, economically and culturally accessible artistic training to talented students and adults who cannot access traditional avenues to professional development. The training program draws from Augusto Boal's approach to community, Jerzy Grotowski's emphasis on physicality, and Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques.
The season includes a previously unproduced play selected through an annual competition, a contemporary play and an original collaborative work generated "in-house" using the Boal, Grotowski, and Spolin techniques.
The program is supported by: playwrights: Tony Kushner, Moisés Kaufman, Carlos Murillo and Eduardo Juan Andino; actors: Ann Cusack and Robert Madrid; corporate partners ClearChannel Communications, KOB-TV and Target Stores; the Joseph P. & Jeanne M. Sullivan Foundation, New Mexico Arts and Theatre Communications Group.
visual arts
Professional visual arts training in English and Spanish
Working Classroom nurtures new visions and creates art that is culturally diverse, socially and geographically accessible and economically affordable.
Our visual art program features:
professional training
public art
graphic design microenteprise
downtown gallery
professional residencies
Visual Arts:
The Working Classroom visual arts program promotes culturally diverse, non-traditional and contemporary art. It provides aspiring artists with tuition-free professional training, sponsors landmark public art projects that contribute to social and economic transformation, operates a downtown gallery showcasing the work of student and emerging professional artists, offers important résumé-building business opportunities for young and emerging artists and provides residencies for sculptors, painters, mixed-media and installation artists from historically ignored communities.
The street conservatory brings high quality, economically and culturally accessible artistic training to talented students who lack access to traditional avenues of professional development. Students are exposed to a variety of alternative and contemporary art forms and techniques. The curriculum supports students' artistic impulses, imagination and creativity while assisting their efforts to acquire and control increasingly sophisticated techniques to feed their individual creative discourse.
In studio classes, public art and graphic design projects, students develop business skills and artistic tools that bolster their applications to university art programs, conservatory art schools, juried exhibits, galleries and commissions.
The program includes a series of art workshops, an annual Day of the Dead installation, an alternative process photography exhibit, a Summer Arts Institute, and a public art project
The program is supported by: artists Edouard Duval-Carrié and Guy Haziza, photographer Miguel Gandert; corporate partners ClearChannel Communication, KOB-TV, Ronald McDonald House Charities; New Mexico Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Groups
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Chow Down in Burque Town
391 members
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Art in ABQ
242 members
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Living Green
196 members
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Book Club
195 members
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Albucooking
193 members
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The Music Lounge
181 members
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