Spotlight on Youth Art

CALL FOR ENTRIES
Zeum is taking entries for its 10th Anniversary show—please click here for more info on getting involved!

Spotlight on Youth Art provides a venue for youth to share their unique perspectives and tell their stories through art forms such as photography, video, collage, painting, literary arts, and more. Through partnerships with other organizations throughout the Bay Area, Zeum showcases artwork created by youth from a diverse array of communities that might otherwise go unseen.

Zeum is a place where young people from all backgrounds can make their voices heard. We are pleased to partner with other organizations that share our commitment to fostering creative self-expression among youth.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Galería de la Raza and Zeum presents: Fantality!

June 18th, 2008 - August 31st, 2008
Opening reception Wednesday, 6/18 @ 3pm

Fantality! is part of Galería de la Raza's Youth Media Project, a mentorship program striving to help develop and document the marginalized voices of our youth. The program trains youth in a variety of digital media, while using contemporary artistic strategies to strengthen the relationship between creative activity, social awareness, and community building.

This exhibit is the outcome of a ten-week multimedia class conducted by Jerome Reyes and Ariel Roman that examines urban studies through issues of immigration and cultural borders, both official and imagined.

Using artwork influenced by comic book superheroes (or even anti-heroes), the young artists, Max Martilla, Najee El, Amber Frampton, David Chan, and Amarante Rodriguez investigate the complex psychological and socio-historical composition of the their possible alter-egos. These fictionalized versions of themselves have navigated an onslaught of barriers, laws, and urban customs. To portray these stories, the students used video production, public performance/ reenactments in costume, graphic design, and various drawing methods.

Fantality! will showcase the final project as process material, and also cameo previous YMP projects.

ABOUT GALERÍA YOUTH MEDIA PROJECT
Galería Youth Media Project (YMP) is an experiential youth arts education and mentorship program conceived by artist/educator Julio Cesar Morales. The YMP offers after school and summer workshops to low-income, primarily Latino youth, ages 13-19 that provide training in digital media arts utilizing contemporary art practices to help youth further their analytical skills, critical thinking, and community engagement.

Galería Youth Media Project is funded by the Walter & Elise Haas Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Miranda Lux Foundation, the van L–ben Sels/RembeRock Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Adobe Foundation.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Zeum is turning 10! For this year's What Will You Create? Exhibit, we are collecting work created by kids at Zeum in the last decade! If you have artwork your child created here between 1998 and 2008 and you'd like it to be considered for the exhibit, please contact Mike Lai to submit a copy. Deadline: September 9, 2008.