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Support a week-long printmaking master class that celebrates 15 years of Young Artists at Work and produces limited edition silkscreens for our backers!

The Story
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco developed a youth arts program fifteen years ago to give arts education opportunities to talented teen artists from underserved and disadvantaged communities. The program, called Young Artists at Work (YAAW), offers youth a hands-on experience in curating, art-making and media activism. The basic idea is simple: identify public schools where the arts programs have suffered the most, find students/budding artists at these schools who would benefit from the program, provide support and skills training to encourage the inner artist to flourish, and connect them to their immediate artistic community with a summer internship. Since the programs inception, over 300 young artists have participated in this program and they, in turn, have expanded the impact of the program to provided peer education to over 7,500 youth.

The Project
To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the youth arts program, we would like to create a limited edition silkscreen print as part of a week-long master printmaking class for current and past YAAW students who have shown promise in the medium. These 15 students will use the state-of-the-art facilities at Kala Art Institute (www.kala.org) to further their design and printing skills. Each student will produce one 15×18 self-designed silkscreen as part of the class in addition to a limited edition 15×18 anniversary silkscreen in collaboration with artist and teacher, Josefina Jacquin (http://josefinajacquin.com/). Our goal is to raise $7,000 to pay for the artist and studio time, as well as the materials used in the printmaking process, transportation costs and shipping fees.

About Our Collaborators: Kala Art Institute and Josefina Jacquin
Kala Art Institute, founded in 1974 by Archana Horsting and Yuzo Nakano as an international workshop and forum for ideas, provides exceptional facilities to professional artists working in all forms of printmaking, digital media, photography, and book arts. Located in the former Heinz ketchup factory in West Berkeley since 1979, Kalas 8,500 square foot facility houses an extensive array of artmaking equipment, as well as a public exhibition gallery, an art library and an extensive print archive.

A native of Santa Marta, Colombia, Josefina Jacquin obtained her BA at San Francisco State University (1995), and her M.F.A. at The San Francisco Art Institute (1997). Josefina has consistently exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically at The de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Museum of the Legion of Honor and in numerous institutions both in the United States and overseas. Her work has also been included in permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena, Colombia.

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Lecture: Anuradha Choudry, PhD candidate in Sanskrit Studies

Faculty: Anu Sachdev, Assistant Director of Early Childhood Education and Bruce Wall, Associate Professor, Fine Art Program

Video & Editing: Irene Cordero

Workshop Participants: Courtney Sanchez, Justin Mooney, Irene Cordero, Reid Carrescia, Michelle Schissler, Lauren Doyle, Dana Carey, Denise Gingold, Amit Mehta, Varda Mehta, and Shyam Mehta

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Founded in 1961, the Peace Corps is on the precipice of an historic milestone, one that will likely review the almost 50 years of not only extolling the virtues that many feel embody the United States of America, but also of actually putting those virtues into practice across the globe. As the national Peace Corps program readies to celebrate its golden anniversary in a little over a year, the Peace Corps Fellows Program (PCF) in Community Development at Western Illinois University caps it 15th year in 2009 and can tout similar accomplishments. After 15 years, the program’s alumni and current Fellows can recall how the PCF Program in Community Development has helped them achieve a master’s degree and required them to explore the theories of community development. They can also look back at how they were able to put theory into practice and survey how their service and knowledge has contributed to the development of rural communities across Illinois.

The Mission
A unit of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA), which is housed at Western, the PCF Program in Community Development provides former Peace Corps volunteers the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree with a specialization in community development, explained Karen Mauldin-Curtis, who has managed the program since 2004.

“Students, referred to as ‘Fellows,’ can pursue an advanced degree in one of six fields of study offered at WIU,” noted Mauldin-Curtis. “After each Fellow has completed his or her coursework, they then each serve an 11-month internship in a rural community in Illinois. The internship provides the students with practical experience as they help lead community development projects in the town or county in which they are serving. Since the program was established 15 years ago, we have had more than 89 Fellows serve in towns and counties in Illinois.”

Currently, the master’s degree offerings via the PCF Program in Community Development include business administration (MBA), economics, political science (public administration), recreation, park and tourism administration, geography (regional planning) and health sciences.

For the full release, see http://www.wiu.edu/newsrelease.sphp?release_id=7792.

For more information about the Peace Corps Fellows Program in Community Development at Western Illinois University, visit http://www.peacecorpsfellows-wiu.org/

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For more photos of the great art work and summer jobs for youth teaching cyber arts.. visit the Profile on www.facebook.com of ‘Constable Scott Mills’

Cyber Arts Program Student ‘Rain’ speaks about his graffiti art work project to Toronto Crime Stoppers School police officer after a school presentation.

Using Graffiti as a community building theme is one way of improving the relations between cops and kids in Toronto.

In 2007 a record # of tips to prevent and solve crime, as well as help find missing persons were received by Toronto Crime Stoppers by calling the anonymous tip line at 416-222-TIPS (8477), toll free from anywhere in Canada or parts of the USA at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or by clicking ‘SUBMIT A TIP’ at http://222tips.com .

Thank you Rain for sharing your vision of your art work.. and for doing positive things in your community.

To enter your art work for the Toronto Crime Stoppers T-Shirt Re-Design Contest, which includes submission for graffiti art, visit the Communities Advancing Valued Environment website at http://CommunityCAVE.com . Any youth, anywhere in the world can enter their art work online from this site to be eligible for scholarships and art supply prizes. The winners of the contest will have their designs printed on Crime Stoppers T-Shirts for distribution to the public.

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