Around Brooklyn: Clarke leads effort to close learning gap in schools
Clarke leads effort to close learning gap in schools
U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Kensington, Park Slope, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay) last week led the way in writing a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit V. Pai pushing to reform the E-Rate program to accommodate distanced learning and do more to close the learning gap.” “As we await the rollout of coronavirus vaccines in the coming months, we must not lose sight of the immediate needs of students that have been hurt the most by this pandemic. Nearly 30% of all US households lack broadband access rising to over 40% for low-income households. While many schools went remote, these students have been effectively pushed out of school,” she said.
Brooklyn Museum awards UOVO Prize
The Brooklyn Museum has awarded Baseera Khan the second annual UOVO Prize, which recognizes the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists. Khan’s work concentrates on performance, Islamic cultural and religious ephemera, sculpture, collage and video, and addresses issues of surveillance, otherness and the body. As the awardee, Khan will receive a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, a commission for a 50×50-foot public art installation on the façade of UOVO: BROOKLYN, located in Bushwick, and a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant. Their public installation and Museum exhibition will debut in fall of 2021. Khan was selected by a team of curators from the Brooklyn Museum. “I remember moving to Brooklyn in 2007, quite close to the Brooklyn Museum in fact, and I’ve lived close by ever since,” says Khan. “I am deeply moved that my first museum solo exhibition will happen in a space that provided me and others with so much comfort during the lockdown of COVID-19.”