PAL Project Spring Showcase

Join us for exhibit and celebration of young Syracuse city photographers!

Free and open to the public, dinner wil be provided to all attendees!

Photography and Literacy Project (PAL Project) is an innovative program positioned in the Syracuse University Art Museum that brings Syracuse University students into Syracuse City Schools to develop projects involving photography, video, audio recording and writing. The objective is to improve student’s writing and reading skills by linking these studies with photography, video and poetry. Using “Visual Thinking Strategies,” PAL Project also improves student’s critical thinking and media literacy skills. PAL Project provides students with an opportunity for expression through both a visual and narrative connection by linking the forms of digital media and writing.

PAL Project truly defines the meaning of Scholarship in Action. It exemplifies collaboration among university departments including Light Work, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the School of Education, and the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. Through PAL these University departments, in turn, collaborate with the Syracuse City School District to work with teachers and students on a sustained basis to teach them 21st-century life skills.