The Studio Museum in Harlem, in partnership with The Museum of Arts and Design, will host a special Teacher’s Professional Development seminar and workshop, in conjunction with the exhibitions, respectively: Stephen Burks: Man Made and Stephen Burks | Are You a Hybrid? The program will begin at the Studio Museum and conclude at MAD, with free shuttle service provided between the two museums.

Professional Development Day for Teachers is $30; all services and materials included. Registration required. Please contact Molly MacFadden at The Museum of Art and Design to register, molly.macfadden@madmuseum.org or 212-299-7727.

Schedule of Events

LOCATION: The Studio Museum in Harlem

8:30 AM
Registration & Sign-In, coffee and danish provided

9:00 AM–9:45 AM
Gallery Discussion of Man Made

10:00 AM–11:00 AM
Assistant Curator Lauren Haynes, will provide an overview of Stephen Burks’ design practice and discuss his ongoing collaborations with artisans in Senegal and other countries.

11:00 AM–11:30 AM
Lunch Break

11:30 AM–12:15 AM
Shuttle ride to MAD

LOCATION: The Museum of Arts and Design

12:25 PM–1:10 PM
Gallery Discussion of Are You a Hybrid?

1:15 pm–3:30 pm
Artist educators will lead hands-on workshops and synthesize the ideas and the materials and processes discussed in the morning seminar and gallery walks.

About the Exhibitions
Stephen Burks: Man Made, presented by the Studio Museum in Harlem, is a unique project that furthers industrial designer Stephen Burks’s ongoing exploration of the global economy of artisanal craft. Inspired by Burks’s collaboration with Senegalese basket weavers based in New York and Dakar, as well as projects with artisans in South Africa, Peru and India, Man Made starts with the traditional basket-weaving process as its core concept.

Stephen Burks | Are You A Hybrid?, presented by The Museum of Arts & Design, will showcase the work of Stephen Burks and over 20 international designers, artists and photographers, both historical and contemporary, whose influential projects have developing world influences and promote a pluralistic vision of design.

Are You A Hybrid? will share with viewers the furniture, accessories and lighting of designers working at the height of the contemporary design industry whose formal influences or DIY conceptual strategies favor the spirit of immediacy and craftsmanship readily found in cultures of the African diaspora and beyond.