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With Photographer Bruce Sheffer
For 10th-12th grade students
For youth on the Social Involvement program
The L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art sees its mission as building a bridge between Jews and Arabs, and deepening knowledge and understanding between them. The museum works to promote intercultural tolerance and recognition, to promote values of equality, and to reinforce the bond with the community.
During the course of the school year the museum conducts a series of sessions with 10th-12th grade students from schools in Jerusalem at which the youth will acquire new photography skills, will learn about the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions, discuss aspects of identity and community, and will engage in advancing democratic and liberal values.
The sessions will take place on Tuesdays or Thursdays, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Totaling around 60 hours.
30 hours of training; Acquiring photography skills under the guidance of a professional photographer, and acquiring tools for social involvement in a multicultural society.
30 hours of social involvement; Using the tools acquired for individual creativity, and promoting democratic and social values.
