Storytellers

Ten-week classes use photography to give students an opportunity to express themselves in pictures and words while artistically rediscovering their cultural heritage, neighborhoods, families and friends.  This on-going program has included partnerships with the Boys & Girls Clubs, BETA Center, Inc., Tajiri School of Performing Arts & Academics, and ESTEEM, Inc. The most recent segment, Storytellers XII, was completed with The Office for Farmworker Ministry at the Hope CommUnity Center and Americorps in the spring of 2007. Since 1996, Storytellers has been funded by five private foundations. From 2001 - 2005, the Fanny Landwirth Family Foundation funded this successful outreach program on an annual basis. While finished projects become part of Crealdé's Archive of Community-Based Documentary Photography, individual exhibitions are frequently loaned for display at the facilities of community partners. This program was named the “Best Arts Collaboration of 2000” by United Arts of Central Florida.

Crealdé's most recent Storytellers segment, Storytellers XIV: The new face of rural communities in Central Florida, shown May 6 to August 6, 2011 at the Showalter Hughes Community Gallery. This is a photographic outreach program by Crealdé School of Art produced in partnership with the Hope CommUnity Center in Apopka, and St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Mt. Dora.

Participants: Fernando Balderas, Marla Balderas, Arcadio Espinoza, Chastity Espinoza, Pablo Garcia, Bianca Orozco, Elexia Orozco, Maria Ramirez, Vincente Rodriguez, Alfonso Sanchez, Erika Sauceda, and Maurilio Sauceda. Instructed by Anna Maria Jannotti and assistant Brian David Becker. Storytellers XIV was funded through a grant from the St. Margaret Mary Outreach Fund, with additional support from Crealdé member Melodi Roberts.