Rae Powers graduated from Parsons The New School with Bachelor Degrees in Photography and Cultural Media Studies. Growing up in a small town called Cranford, New Jersey her work is centered around her childhood home and the memories kept within those walls. Using her family archive and playing with time and memory, she is starting to see how the relationship to certain spaces have begun to change with age.
Rae completed a year of service with City Year’s NYC Corp. She worked in a public school in Soundview, Bronx for a school year before transitioning back to graduate school to obtain her MA in Art + Education at NYU. Rae received her certification for K-12 education. Currently she is an art educator for a public middle school in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
As Carla Shalaby says in “A Letter to Teachers” in Troublemakers, we need to be love for our students. “You be love my modeling healing over harm. You be love by restoring community instead of excluding from community” (Shalaby). Rae strives to foster love, joy and care in every inch of her classrooms as well as with her relationships with students. Above everything she wants her students to know that they can create a safe space together. A space that encourages them to grow and build connections to their communities. Rae believes as an educator it is her responsibility to create a space where students can see themselves in what they are being taught. Rae believes we need to be love for the students in our lives and ultimately model the world we hope to see one day.
Contact: raepowers123@gmail.com
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