University of Denver Prison Arts Initiativeīuena Vista, Canon City, Delta, Denver, Golden, Las Animas, Limon, Pueblo, Rifle, Sterling, and. Purpose: To collaborate with partners and create inclusive and engaging arts programming for youth-adults who are Deaf/HH and blind/low-vision particularly during the global shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Purpose: To collaborate with formerly incarcerated leaders to create autobiographical monologues exploring the injustice, bias, and violence within the criminal justice system - including COVID-19 threats faced by incarcerated people.Īccessible Arts for the Deaf and Blind Communitiesĭenver, Lakewood, and Littleton, Colorado JustUs: Stories from the Frontlines of the Criminal Justice Systemīoulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs, Colorado Purpose: To provide four workshops over two months to three different Grand Junction groups, including the Veterans Hospital, Alzheimer’s’ Association, and youth coping with LGBTQ+ and/or suicide issues, that will respond to multi-disciplinary artistic prompts culminating in a community Poetry Slam and art exhibit with the theme, “Why I Have Hope.” Grand Valley - Grand Junction, Fruita, and Palisade, Colorado Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, Postvention Alliance Purpose: To launch a pilot project linking the traditional 12-step program to cultural practices and artistic projects that will strengthen the connections participants feel to their own experiences, their culture, families, and communities. Purpose: To run a 12-week pilot at Gilliam Youth Services Center that will provide incarcerated high schoolers with art and literacy instruction and an opportunity to create their own comic about their story of personal transformation. LEAD (Literacy Education in Adolescent Detention) with Comics Purpose: To create a monumental narrative mural in the La Alma neighborhood that pays homage to the Civil Rights Movement in Colorado in the Chicano mural tradition. Purpose: To work with twenty under-represented Garfield County High School students to create an original, student-driven, collection of autobiographical short films that explore and share with the world their unique stories and perspectives. Purpose: To create a Rural/Urban Civic Artist Fellowship comprised of a cohort of eight civic artist fellows that will work with their own local communities to adapt and explore the Civic Health Club style of organizing. Loveland, Yuma, Fort Morgan, and Fort Collins, Colorado
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