Three original team members of the Syracuse University sculpture class that
designed and built the Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (M-LAB) will discuss the project and
its mission during a lecture for the Art and Art History Department Lecture Series at
Colgate University on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Golden Auditorium in
Little Hall.
Speaking will be SU School of Architecture alumni Vincent Appel '08 and Jessica
Posner '08, and fifth-year architecture student Zachary Seibold. Posner is the current
M-LAB coordinator.
The M-LAB was built by a team of SU students enrolled in a seminar taught by
Marion Wilson, director of community initiatives for SU's College of Visual and
Performing Arts (VPA). M-LAB is a project within the Partnership for Better
Education, which engages the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and higher
education students, faculty and staff in projects that enhance and enrich the
educational experience of the students and communities served by the SCSD.
The M-LAB began as a used recreational vehicle and was renovated into a mobile arts
studio equipped with digital cameras, laptop computers, printers and other
technologies. The project began last year with Henninger High School students and
this year involves Fowler High School students. The class is producing an interactive,
online Zine of their work, and an exhibition will be mounted in SU's Warehouse
Gallery.
SU students enrolled in the "Literacy, Community, and Photography" course taught
collaboratively by Stephen Mahan, photography instructor in the Department of
Transmedia in VPA, and John Colasacco, an instructor in The College of Arts and
Sciences Writing Program, are mentoring the high school students in both the
writing and photography components of their class work.
For more information about M-LAB, contact David Morgan, director of the
Partnership for Better Education, at (315) 443-4181.
