Socrateens Instagram Exhibition Archive

About the Socrateens Exhibition
Saturday, June 27 & Sunday, June 28, 2020 • On Instagram @socratespark
The 2020 Socrateens‘ culminating exhibition took place on the Park’s Instagram account, @socratespark, on Saturday, June 27th and Sunday, June 28th.
Each Socrateen curated a slideshow of their work for a dedicated post along with composing their own interpretive text for the caption. Additionally, each student recorded an artist statement for the Park’s Instagram story, @socratespark.
Exhibition Archive
Anabella Orellana
Aneesa Razak
Chris Bisram
Johnaila Cole
Kate Panasci
Laura Umana
Michela Farella
Sohit Gurung
About the Socrateens Program
Socrateens is the Park’s experimental art-making program for local high school students. Each year, ten students are selected for the program and awarded a monthly artist stipend of $100 for their participation.
Socrates Lead Educator Douglas Paulson facilitates the Socrateens program and harnesses the unique resources available at the Park to teach sculpture-making techniques with tools and at a scale not usually available in conventional classrooms.
When Socrateens meetings moved online due to the Covid19 pandemic, the group pivoted – exploring digital media, storytelling, and video – using Zoom as a canvas, stage, and forum.
The Socrateens are also part of the Park’s ‘MONUMENTS NOW‘ exhibition. They collectively realized a ‘zine titled, ‘Monuments Decoder,’ which spells out the controversies surrounding monuments in America. Additionally, a monument sculpture by the Socrateens goes on view in the Park’s landscape in October 2020 alongside monument projects by the Park’s 2020 Artist Fellows and monument installations by artists Jeffrey Gibson, Paul Ramírez Jonas, and Xaviera Simmons.