Exhibition: SexEd Presents: Wearing Consent
February 2016
_gaia Studio, Jersey City, NJ
An exhibition, performance, and launch party for our Wearing Consent curriculum. Working with sex educator Bryana Williams, SexEd conducted consent conversations, performed condom demonstrations, applied consent-themed temporary tattoos and dispensed real information on sexual health.
Click here for the SexEd Presents: Wearing Consent exhibition page.
Education | Art | Activism: Wearing Consent at the Educational Alliance
January 2016 – February 2016
The Educational Alliance, New York, NY
A 3-session art + sex ed project with youth and staff from the Edgies Teen Center that culminated in a public event open to the entire community of The Educational Alliance.
Education | Art | Activism: Wearing Consent
September 2014 – June 2015
The 422 Health Center, Washington Irving High School Campus (WIHSC), New York, NY
For the 2014-2015 school year, SexEd completed an artists residency at the 422 Health Center at WIHSC. Working with students, teachers and health center staff, we created a consent-themed art + sex ed campaign that reached the community of WIHSC via classroom curricula, a robust after-school program, and the SexEd Salon – an installation/showcase at the 422 Health Fair that explored consent via wearable art engagements.
Click here to go to our Wearing Consent page.
**Click here to find out more and download our Wearing Consent curriculum.**
Exhibition: YouwishyouwouldhaveknownTube
Ongoing
Curated by Liz Slagus & Norene Leddy
Our ongoing online exhibition that asks people to answer the question “What do you wish someone taught or told you about sex?” in a video format.
Click here for the Online Exhibition.
Exhibition | Education | Activism: SexEd Presents: Pleasure
April 2015
Open Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University
For Open Engagement, the international conference and platform to support socially engaged art, SexEd tackled the issue of pleasure by asking “What do you wish someone would have taught or told you about pleasure and sex?” via workshops and videos.
Click here to go to the SexEd Presents: Pleasure page.
Education | Art | Activism: Peer Education Video
November – December 2014
Red Hook Initiative (RHI), Brooklyn, NY
During the fall of 2014, SexEd was invited by RHI to facilitate a four-week after-school collaboration with the RHI Peer Health Educators (PHE’s) to explore sexual health through video-making. The resulting 5-minute video, “How Do I know if I’m Ready to Have Sex?,” tries to answer this question that is so urgent for many teens. Written and produced by the PHE’s, it expresses their views on consent, healthy relationships and birth control.
Education | Art | Activism: Consent Posters
Spring 2014
In spring 2014, students in Liz Slagus and Norene Leddy’s Collab: SexEd course (Parsons The New School for Design) created posters designed to prompt questions and discussion about consent. Select posters are available for free download, check out our Consent Posters page.
Education: Creative Art + Sex Ed Curricula
Spring 2014
For their final project, students in Liz Slagus & Norene Leddy’s Collab: SexEd course at Parsons/The New School created four Art + Sex Ed three-session workshops to run at Washington Irving High School Campus. Each session was 45 minutes, and created for ages 14-18 in a variety of school settings (discussion groups, classrooms and cafeterias). PDFs are available for free download, and include curriculum, instructions for creating a tangible visual outcome (zine, game, stickers, etc.) and documentation of each session. Download them from our Creative Curricula page!
Education: Sex Ed Games
Spring 2013
Students in Norene Leddy’s freshman Laboratory 02: Get Involved course (Parsons The New School for Design) created sex education-based games that could actually be used in classrooms. Each game can be modified by educators, and they are available for download from our Sex Ed Games page.
Exhibition: “SexEd: Chapter 1” at Cuchifritos gallery
February 9-March 10, 2013
Curated by Liz Slagus & Norene Leddy
Cuchifritos Gallery, 120 Essex St., Essex Market, Lower East Side
Opening Saturday February 9 4-6:30pm
Press Release
“SexEd: Chapter 1” is the first of a series of exhibitions that will serve as platforms for knowledge-sharing and community participation in the building of a comprehensive and collaborative, artist-inspired sex education curriculum.
Photos of Installation & Opening
Education: SexEd Workshop at the Lower East Side Girls Club
March 2013
Concurrently with the exhibition, “SexEd: Chapter 1,” Norene Leddy and Liz Slagus will lead a sex education workshop with participants of the Lower East Side Girls Club. They will screen videos from YouwishyouwouldhaveknownTube, and discuss what it means to be a sexual human being in 2013: Where do you get accurate information? How do you define a healthy relationship? What are gender roles and how do they affect our daily lives? Are there other, more inclusive, models for human sexuality? What can we learn from artists and their work around these topics?
Education: Collab: SexEd course at Parsons/The New School
Spring 2013
Concurrently with the exhibition, “SexEd: Chapter 1,” Norene Leddy and Liz Slagus will lead a COLLAB course at Parsons/The New School.
Through a series of collective and individual assignments, the SexEd COLLAB will engage students as full collaborators on the first stage of the SexEd project with “SexEd: Chapter 1.” Students will explore: the history of sex education in the US, the role of artists and activists in raising awareness of social issues related to sex and sex education, and creative ways to encourage and engage public participation and consciousness. Students will also be exposed to the planning, development, curriculum and documentation methods necessary to create successful public programming for exhibitions, as well as participating in public art projects that engage the public around social issues. As part of the SexEd COLLAB, students will produce videos for the YouwishyouwouldhaveknownTube call, a pop-up “confessional” for community use for making new videos for the project, as well as art + sex education project proposals for the Lower East Side Girls Club.
Check out some of their work on the Parsons AMT blog.
Exhibition: Proposal for the Institute for Wishful Thinking
In 2011 SexEd participated in the Institute for Wishful Thinking’s Artists in Residence for the US Government:
http://theiwt.com/proposals/artists-liz-slagus-and-norene-leddy. As self-declared Artists in Residence for the US Government, we proposed a partnership with the with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address and create a collective, community-based federal sex education curriculum through a series of documented artist commissions and community collaborations. Our proposal was included in IWT exhibitions internationally.