Opinion: Art, Augmented Reality Are Tools for Change in Youth-led Gun Violence Movement
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Art is subversive. It has a history of undermining the status quo and of transforming perceptions.
Art, Writing Shows What Young People Want From Police
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A police officer kneels down face to face with a child.
“I’m sorry I stole,” the child cries.
“It’s OK. Just don’t do it again,” the officer replies.
Arts-centered New York Diversion Program for Youth Displays High Success Rate
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The program is short: two counseling sessions, two hours each. But for teens and adults who have been arrested for the first time, it can save them from a lifetime with a criminal record.
New York Art Exhibit Hopes to Spark Conversation on Female Incarceration
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A self-portrait by artist Brittany Knapp appears to call out in agony, begging onlookers to help.
For Kids in Juvenile Detention, Creating Hope Through Writing and Art
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For the better part of the last two decades, The Beat Within has been committed to a mission of providing incarcerated youth with a forum where they can write (and draw) about the things that matter most to them, explore how they have lost connection with those things they value, and consider how they might re-connect to positive situations in their lives through the power of the written word. This is a program that started small, in the Bay Area, with a commitment to provide detained kids between the ages of 11 to 18 with a safe space to share their ideas and experiences while promoting literacy, self-expression, some critical thinking skills, and healthy, supportive relationships with adults and their community. That modest local effort has grown into a nationwide program that touches the lives of more than 5,000 youth in detention. Today, you can find weekly Beat workshops going on in 12 California county juvenile halls, from Alameda to San Diego. We are partnering with universities from U.C. Berkeley to the University of Hawaii.
Getting Up: Improving Youth Outcomes with Graffiti in Denver
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Where many businesses would have seen an unstoppable scourge of youth defacing private property, a project to redirect kids’ creative energies and help improve the community emerged.
From Graffiti to Fine Art: KAWS at the High
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When a Jersey City teenager started tagging and defacing public advertisements back in the early 1990’s, he had no clue it would turn into a lucrative art career. But that’s the story of Brian Donnelly, better known as “KAWS,” that has led him to a multi-sight exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. Perched on the top floor above the High’s Picasso to Warhol exhibit, KAWS’ installment “DOWN TIME” seems to bring the Modernism housed in the levels below into the modern times they helped create. His work is strange, yet strikingly familiar, and why wouldn’t it be? It’s essentially a commentary on pop-culture, drawn from pop culture and stamped on pop culture -– it has become pop culture.
African Children in Prison: An Introduction
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There is no qualifying the corners of human suffering around the globe. It is all bad, from massacre sites, to famine zones. Still, if you consider just how dark the outlook for a human can be on God’s green Earth, observe the work in West Africa of the Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres. Few places in the world hold the level of hopelessness of an African prison, for the most part vortexes that may release a human but never the human spirit. Now imagine a prison in a failed state in Africa.
Grant Aims to Keep Kids Out of Trouble Through the Arts
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Target is offering a grant to bring the arts into the schools. Music, art, dance, drama and visual arts are all part of the well-rounded education for kids. This helps expand creativity and horizons and could even help keep kids out of trouble. The grants are worth $2,000 and are accepted between March 1 and April 30, 2011.