connecting to Incarcerated Youth in portland, OR
sometimes when I speak:I work with the Creative Activism Project (CAP) and the young people of Portland.
The CAP was instigated by a group of students out of the Pacific Northwest College of Art. It allowed funding for continued involvement with programs BCCTV and Donald E Long Juvenile Detention Center with arts and writing workshops that supports community engagement and provides an education for society by it's participants.
Artists exist everywhere and are everyone. The artists at DEL are hidden, intentionally, from the public against their will. bell hooks says, "You cannot become what you do not first imagine." Art is a practice in imagining and working with one another is a radical act in itself. I found the first group of people willing to work with me and I will continue to as long as it makes sense.
I was led to this work when I took on a job where I spent hundreds of hours transcribing audio recordings from photographers and other folks working within the Prison-Industrial-Complex. There are many prisons we inhabit before we become incarcerated and understanding that, I know prisons are something I am responsible for abolishing.
My plan is not idealistic. I know the real change happens when you sit down and have conversations, or when you speak loudly at the right times. I will just continue to raise my son and live my life the way it makes sense.
Throughout this program, the group of women I worked with, the five of us, spent each week together meeting at coffee shops and constructing workshops. We raised consciousness every week within the group. That structure was crucial.
The CAP was instigated by a group of students out of the Pacific Northwest College of Art. It allowed funding for continued involvement with programs BCCTV and Donald E Long Juvenile Detention Center with arts and writing workshops that supports community engagement and provides an education for society by it's participants.
Artists exist everywhere and are everyone. The artists at DEL are hidden, intentionally, from the public against their will. bell hooks says, "You cannot become what you do not first imagine." Art is a practice in imagining and working with one another is a radical act in itself. I found the first group of people willing to work with me and I will continue to as long as it makes sense.
I was led to this work when I took on a job where I spent hundreds of hours transcribing audio recordings from photographers and other folks working within the Prison-Industrial-Complex. There are many prisons we inhabit before we become incarcerated and understanding that, I know prisons are something I am responsible for abolishing.
My plan is not idealistic. I know the real change happens when you sit down and have conversations, or when you speak loudly at the right times. I will just continue to raise my son and live my life the way it makes sense.
Throughout this program, the group of women I worked with, the five of us, spent each week together meeting at coffee shops and constructing workshops. We raised consciousness every week within the group. That structure was crucial.