PANEL DISCUSSION F144. Workshops for the Working Class: How We Build Learning Spaces outside Academia. (Marcus Omari, Nancy Lynee Woo, Alyesha Wise, Hiram Sims, Danielle Mitchell) 118BC, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level.
How do learning spaces rally in service of their community members and bridge the access-gap between art literacy and class? In this panel, four diverse LA area workshop founders open a dialogue on their community outreach, operating practices, and pedagogies. Each panelist will outline achievements and challenges they’ve encountered in their work to uplift, mentor, teach, and advocate new models that center multiculturalism and deny systems of domination and white supremacy in the classroom.