08/01/2026
This video just popped up from a few years back... but is still 100% true now, more than ever!
Creative Art Works video clip from https://www.creativeartworks.org/blogpreview/2024/8/8/echoes-of-inwood
Made by people—powered by youth!
From "Echoes of Inwood" At the
Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary
A short documentary by a team of CAW Youth Apprentices captures the essence of a neighborhood in flux.
The project is part of CAW Public Art Youth Employment program that gives full-time summer jobs to NYC youth between the ages of 16 and 24. The YAs are guided by Teaching Artists and Teaching Artist Assistant-in-Training. The Teaching Artists have backgrounds in education and maintain an art practice.
From CAW page:
“I feel like what makes Inwood unique is the people: how they interact with each other, how they talk about the neighborhood, the different organizations that are here to build the community like Inwood Art Works and Inwood Community Services. They are all here working to make the community better.”
The documentary team benefits from insider knowledge provided by several YAs who live in the neighborhood.
OUR PEOPLE
“Echoes of Inwood” Team
Amrita Singh, Teaching Artist
Kevin Claiborne, Teaching Artist
Jonathan Hyman, Teaching Artist Assistant-in-Training
Riki Sabel, Program Manager
Creative Art Works' programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. The Public Art Youth Employment Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional program funders include the Find Your Light Foundation, the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation, the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, the Ponce de Leon Foundation, and the William Talbot Hillman Foundation.
We would like to thank Inwood Community Services for production space and The Forum at Columbia University for hosting the premiere of “Echoes of Inwood” as part of the West Harlem Community Benefits Agreement administered by the West Harlem Development Corporation.
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