Our Future, Our Voice, Our Way
Our Future, Our Voice, Our Way is a youth art exhibition curated by the 2020-21 SHG Youth Committee. The exhibition highlights individual youth voices who care strongly about issues in their communities. The pieces in the exhibition touch upon identity, race, culture, and gender, many through the lens of social justice. The SHG Youth Committee believes young people should have more input in the decisions that directly affect them and that their voices should be celebrated and uplifted. We hope through this small exhibit more young artists are inspired to create new work and showcase it to larger audiences, as well as to inspire a new generation of youth to pursue the arts as a form of expression.
The SHG Youth Committee is a paid program for youth living in Los Angeles County ages 15-20 to come together to gain experience in civic engagement and advocacy. Through this youth leadership role, participants receive training to create and lead programming for other youth to increase the awareness in areas of community health, youth incarceration, restorative justice in education, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and more.
50 Years Y Que?
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Interview blog with Jaime Cruz, a chairman of the National Chicano Moratorium committee. We discuss the art created in the early years of The Chicano Movement and connect with the current political climate. This piece of writing includes my personal experience being raised in East Los Angeles, the history of The Chicano Moratorium, and what empowers me to uplift my community.
Samantha Nieves (she/her/hers), 20 | Twitter @Spacedoutartz |
I am an artist born and raised in East Los Angeles. I am a multimedia artist, illustrator, poet, and writer. I address topics that reflect my community, like public art, art history in my community, and my response to my surroundings.