On Monday May 18th at the Auburndale Public Library in Queens, Magic Box photography students at JHS 194 participated in the grand opening of their photo exhibit documenting faces and places throughout Queens, NY. The students worked in our after school CASA program using traditional digital cameras as well as handmade "Bigshot" cameras they assembled themselves.

On Thursday May 7th, Magic Box Productions hosted  FOCUS 2015 at the Poet's Den Gallery in East Harlem, where Paul King, Executive Director of the Office of Arts and Special Projects for the NYC Department of Education and Jane Remer, Author, Philanthropist and Arts Education Evaluator were honored for their extensive and remarkable contributions to Arts and Education.

For the first time in MBP history, our students are not only capturing fascinating images using digital cameras, they're actually building them! DIY: Building Cameras and Community, is a Creative After School Adventure program at JHS 194 in Queens, NY, in which 6th and 7th grade MBP students learn to assemble Bigshot digital cameras to use to document their community.

One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) not only impacted the arts, but also effected change in race relations, civil rights, and social justice.  At Magic Box, we often have our students engage with Parks' work through photographs, research and writing.  Magic Box’s “Through My Eyes” program, now in its fourth year at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (JKO) High School, uses Park’s groundbreaking photography as part of this language based, literacy rich, media art curriculum.