Principles of Creating with Young People & Community
Value process & product equally
Center lived experiences, lifting up the expertise people have on their own lives
Teach everything needed to create, there is no expectation of pre-existing art skills
Create low stakes, scaffolded skill building moments for experimentation & play
Facilitate community oriented idea generation & honor the vision that comes from it
Teach Creative & Cultural Strategy prioritizing relationships & power building into art making
Make space for the trauma people have experienced in colonized art education settings
Collaboration is collaboration, no one is left to ‘figure it out’ alone
Leadership Academy, Hayward CA
Sylvandale Middle School, San Jose CA In collaboration w/ Art teacher Kim Wallace
Leadership Academy bathroom mural, 2017
Nae Nae Zonaa, preparing MFOL poster
March For Our Lives poster created in collaboration with Nae Nae Zonaa
March For Our Lives
created in collaboration with incarcerated teens in Richmond VA for Performing Statistics.
Performing Statistics, RISE for youth press conference, Richmond VA
created in collaboration with incarcerated teens in Richmond VA for Performing Statistics
Justice Parade led by Performing Statistics & RISE for youth, Richmond VA
created in collaboration with incarcerated teens in Richmond VA for Performing Statistics
Justice Parade led by Performing Statistics & RISE for youth, Richmond VA
created in collaboration with RISE for youth & Performing Statistics, Richmond VA
created in collaboration with incarcerated teens in Richmond VA for Performing Statistics
created in collaboration with incarcerated teens in Richmond VA for Performing Statistics
created in collaboration with Mark Strandquist for Performing Statistics & Youth First, 2020
Monument Academy, Washington DC collaboration with 5th graders, 2016
DC General Family Shelter, Washington DC Partnership between Capitol Hill Arts Workshop & Playtime Project teens program
Leadership High School, San Francisco CA collaboration with YESCKA
Power to the Polls, collaboration with Yaretzi Cruz for Amplifier Foundation
Georgetown Day School, Washington DC
March For Our Lives Posters, San Francisco CA
Leadership High School, San Francisco CA
stencil self portrait project!
Moms poetry & healing workshop Washington DC in collaboration with Konshens
stencil workshops, Navajo Nation, Cameron, AZ for the Painted Desert Project
Navajo Mountain UT teen employment collaboration, Painted Desert Project
stencil workshops, Navajo Nation, Cameron AZ, Painted Desert Project
stencil workshops, Navajo Nation, Cameron AZ , Painted Desert Project
Navajo Mountain, future chapter President, VP & treasurer!
Navajo Mountain UT
Navajo Mountain teen workshops
Navajo Nation, Navajo Mountain chapter house, UT
Navajo Mountain teen employment program, Dig Deep, Freedom Lodge collaboration
Navajo Mountain teen employment program, Dig Deep, Freedom Lodge collaboration
Navajo Mountain teen employment program, Dig Deep, Freedom Lodge collaboration
MS 136 middle school, Brooklyn NY collaboration with 5th graders, YESCKA & Max Albee
girls group, community building activity
Festival de Belen, Iquitos Peru
Miguel Contreras High School, Los Angeles CA collaboration with ILEARN AMERICA & Pavel Acevedo
Miguel Contreras High School, Los Angeles CA collaboration with ILEARN AMERICA & Pavel Acevedo
Miguel Contreras High School, Los Angeles CA collaboration with ILEARN AMERICA & Pavel Acevedo
collaboration with students from Miguel Contreras High School & Pavel Acevedo for We Rise 2018
Festival de Belen, Iquitos Peru
collaboration with Sose & kids of Belen
middle school screen printing!
We Rise, Los Angeles CA screen printing workshops, partnership with Self Help Graphics
We Rise screen printing workshops, partnership with Self Help Graphics
Burlington High School, Burlington WA student summer program collaboration with YESCKA
Burlington High School, Burlington WA student summer program collaboration with YESCKA
Burlington High School, Burlington WA student summer program collaboration with YESCKA