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Vue-Points...
A photographic treasure hunt to
rediscover the world around us
Vue-Points Program Director: Gary Hulton
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The Vue-Points Project |
Benefits | Who Can Do A Workshop | Reach Out | Timeline and Numbers Served | A Bigger Step |
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Vue-Points is an educational outreach program of The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, a 501.c.3 nonprofit corporation.
Mission
The mission of the Vue-Points photography program is to provide people with a new awareness and appreciation of the world around them. Each participant gains a new way of looking at, interacting with, sharing and appreciating their specific surroundings, no matter where they may be. The objective of the Vue-Points workshop is to give each person, regardless of their background or ability, the possibility to visually express and share their point of view about their environment.
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The Vue-Points Project
The Vue-Points Photography Workshop is geared to serve three different audience groups: Underserved Communities - to provide a rewarding experience to those who are deprived or distracted from enjoying the world around them due to illness, disability, or disadvantage; Cultural Communities - to provide new ways of seeing the world and understanding the role of photography and its impact on our daily lives; and, Business Communities - to provide creativity development to re-gear the team effort, improve environmental awareness, and to identify opportunities through enhanced visual training and critical thinking.
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Benefits
Vue-Points expressive photography technique gives people a different way to see the world around them. By providing a new form of self-expression and creativity - the process of creative photography, it brings art into the environment of daily life and produces an increased appreciation for the richness of multiple of points of view. The technique enhances critical and visual thinking skills and increases one’s awareness of one's own and other peoples’ environments and experiences. It builds confidence, tolerance and appreciation, and provides the satisfaction of creating a work of art on one’s own.
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Who Can Do A Workshop
The Vue-Points photography workshop is available to institutions, organizations and corporations on a fee basis. Your group can benefit directly by having a special workshop either on-site or at a location of your choosing. Or you can sponsor workshops for one or more of our under-served or special-needs groups. Donations are tax deductible and help us raise the necessary funding to provide the workshops, at little or no cost to under-served communities and to those with special needs. Everyone who does the Vue-Points workshop gains a new way of looking at the world around them, develops critical and visual thinking skills and gains a new means to express their point of view about their particular environment, all the while having fun with a camera. Vue-Points workshops are ideal for: Underserved youth programs; Schools, universities and community programs; After-school and youth development programs; Museum and cultural educational programs; Special interest groups and associations; Corporate training and employee enrichment programs; Sustainable development and corporate responsibility initiatives;
Creativity and self-expression programs; and others. You and your group can benefit directly from the power of photography to enrich our lives.
Please contact us by e-mail to sign up for a workshop specially tailored for you. info@vuepoints.org
www.vuepoints.org
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Reach Out
We raise funding from donations and fees for workshops so that we can provide the Vue-Points workshop experience for little or no cost to those who, due to illness, disability or disadvantage, are deprived or distracted from enjoying the world around them.
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Timeline and Numbers Served
Vue-Points conducted its pilot photography workshop in January 2004 with fifteen economically disadvantaged teens and two facilitators at the Boy's and Girl's Club of The Peninsula, in East Palo Alto, CA. With additional workshops conducted since then in the New York City, Public Schools and the Chautuaqua Institution, we have now reached well over two hundred participants.
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A Bigger Step
Curriculum development and partnership arrangements are in progress to make the Vue-Points program available to thousands of students through the public schools systems. The curriculum has been translated into French. Workshops currently are being organized in France and have already been conducted in Casablanca, Morocco, reaching over 50 Participants.
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How to Help - Fundraising
Vue-Points is seeking funding for program development and to continue its series of 6-8 workshops for under-served youth during 2009. Workshops will target such diverse groups such as:
- Alternative high schools for very low income, troubled youth.
- Hospitals for seriously ill children.
- Camps for kids with cancer.
- Camps for emotionally/physically abused youth in the foster system.
- Low income school children.
- Hospital art-for-recovery programs for adults with cancer.
- Severely emotionally disturbed youth.
- Shelters for children from violent homes.
- Shelters for abused and run away children.
- Children's hospices
- Boy's and Girl's Clubs.
Vue-Points is raising funds for these workshops from individuals and corporations. This will enable Vue-Points to build a base of support before launching a larger fundraising effort targeted at foundations for additional workshops and program development. Your support during this phase of program development is vital to assuring the future growth and stability of the Vue-Points program. We appreciate any size donation and the following is a guide to how your donated funds will help: purchase digital cameras, printing and projection equipment, workshop supplies and staff costs, administrative support for program development and fundraising and curriculum development support for implementing the program nationwide through partnership agreements.These workshops will directly affect over 100 children and young adults through partnerships with collaborating non-profit organizations. Because the Vue-Points model promotes ease of replication through training facilitators at the hosting nonprofit organizations, it is conservatively estimated that at least 250 additional children will be reached through additional workshops conducted by the hosting organization's own on-site staff. We sincerely appreciate your support and will keep you informed about our progress. We welcome any suggestions about our program or fundraising efforts.To learn more about our program and how you can help, please contact us at: info@vuepoints.org www.vuepoints.org
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Biographical Information on Vue-Points Director
Gary Hulton brings to the Vue-Points program a wealth of artistic and teaching experience. He is a professional artist and architect who employs the principles taught in the Vue-Points program in his daily work. As a photographer from a young age, he appreciates the critical importance of teaching young people and under-served populations about broadening their awareness of their environment through visual experience. His goal in developing Vue-Points is to heighten each person's ability to see their world, which when their interpretation is shared with others, produces a positive impact on themselves, those around them and their surroundings. In addition to his own environmental sculpture and design consulting, Gary's past professional associations include director of the Galerie Zabriskie in Paris, teaching environmental art at Otis-Parsons in Los Angles, and working with architect Frank Gehry in Los Angeles. His work has been shown internationally, most notably by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Musée des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle in Calais, France and at la Maison de la Villette in Paris.
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