Investigating Where We Live: Capturing Colorful Communities
July 30, 2011 - June 10, 2012
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Investigating Where We Live (IWWL) is a four-week photography and exhibit design summer program for middle and high school students from the District of Columbia and the Washington metropolitan area. Participants use digital cameras and creative writing to explore, document, and interpret the built environment in three Washington, D.C. neighborhoods. Using their images, writing, art, and interviews, participants curate and install an exhibition of their perspectives on the neighborhoods. The teens communicate the highs and lows of neighborhood life, the importance of community identity, and the value of collaboration amongst students from across the metro area.
Since IWWL began in 1996, over 450 teens have explored, documented, and interpreted neighborhoods across the District. Learn how you can participate in IWWL next summer.
This year's IWWL exhibition reveals the 2011 participants’ perspectives on the D.C. neighborhoods Bloomingdale, H Street NE, and Mt. Pleasant.
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Feel free to comment, share stories about these neighborhoods, or respond to the participants’ photos.
Sponsors
Major funding for Investigating Where We Live is provided by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Beech Street Foundation, and the Hattie M. Strong Foundation. Additional support for outreach programs is provided by The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Clark Charitable Foundation; The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.; The William Randolph Hearst Foundations; Sunrise Foundation; and The Tower Companies, among others
