Manuel Acevedo Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Facilitate off-site Arts Reach program for 6-8th grade and High School students in Manhattan Alternative Learning Centers(MALC) for students who have been suspended from middle school. Responsibilities include collaborating with MALC staff to determine best teaching practices in alternative education settings, developing art lesson plans that relate classroom curricula to current MAD exhibitions, setting up materials and differentiating instruction of concepts in art and design based on developmental needs of participants.

Chatham, New Jersey

Conduct multi-session workshops for 5th and 6th grade students in collaboration with the Chatham Department of Education. Responsibilities include designing and facilitating curriculum-aligned art making experiences using flip book animation and pinhole photography. Instruction in the Flip-book Animation Workshop includes a comprehensive exploration of animation, construction of moving image books, and video recording. The Pinhole Project engages students in the basic construction of a camera from a can or box, exposing 4 x 5 inch color transparency film and making direct positives to record landscapes, urban community, and portraits.

Greater New York City Area

Designed and implemented 14-session arts outreach program in collaboration with CASES (Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services). Responsibilities included pre-service, ongoing, and postservice consultation with Center’s art teacher and therapist, collaborative curriculum development and lesson planning, facilitating group visits to El Museo, inquiry of artworks from El Museo’s collections both on and offsite, instruction of basic drawing concepts including perspective, photography technique, flipbook animation,image scanning, text processing, printing, transportation of materials, documentation, preparation of culminating art project, hanging of exhibition at El Museo, assessment, and generating final report.

Newark, New Jersey

Developed and facilitated 9-session art programs for 4th-8th grade students in Newark public schools. Responsibilities included meeting with school administrators and art teachers to align curriculum, lesson planning, organizing and guiding museum trip, instruction in basic drawing concepts including perspective, introduction to photographic techniques and image scanning, writing exhibition descriptions and labels, preparing and hanging student exhibition at Newark Museum, and conducting project assessment.Recent programs include the Imagine Project and the Newark Re-visions Project, designed to help participating students develop critical thinking skills through observation, conceptualizing and reasoning. Drawing inspiration from their personal lives as well as perceptions of the school and surrounding neighborhood, the students used these visual devices to present alternative visions of their community. For the Newark Re-visions Project students used disposable cameras to survey their local neighborhoods and use as reference for visualizations that depicted before and after scenes. The visionary and realistic drawings expressed ideas about urban revitalization in Newark neighborhoods by converting economically challenged areas into beautification projects.