reFORM: Discussion with Pedro and Joaquin Noguera
6pm
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Installation view of Temple Contemporary's reFORM, in collaboration with Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio. Photo by Constance Mensh. Courtesy of Temple Contemporary.
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Installation view of Temple Contemporary's reFORM exhibition, 2015. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Installation view of Temple Contemporary's reFORM exhibition, 2015. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Students, teachers, and community members at the closed Fairhill Elementary School on May 1, 2015 for the launch of Temple Contemporary’s Center-funded reFORM.
Organized in conjunction with the ongoing Center-funded project reFORM, Temple Contemporary hosts a conversation with Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University, and his son Joaquin Noguera. Together, they will discuss the issues facing public education in urban neighborhoods of color as they connect to themes explored in reFORM.
In 2013, two-dozen Philadelphia schools were shuttered by city authorities in an effort to close a budget deficit. With Center support, Temple Contemporary commissioned reFORM, a new installation by 2006 Pew Fellow and MacArthur Fellow Pepón Osorio that responds to these closings—specifically addressing the loss of a single elementary school in North Philadelphia, not far from Temple University. On view through May 20, 2016, the installation serves as a living exhibition and discussion space for those most impacted by this particular closing.
A live stream of this event will be available here.