Teaching Artist Cohort

Along with the zine, the collective is developing a Teaching Artist Cohort that helps bridge the gap between community/ youth engagement and artistic development. Our structure of mentorship and teaching opportunities both create skills in teaching artists of color and create better, more accessible and relevant, arts programming for youth from marginalized communities. We recognize that artists are the storytellers of the Black community.

It is critical during these times of social and racial transformation that youth have access to these storytellers to help contextualize and make sense of their current world.

Through building relationships with youth, strengthening our relationships with community artists, and giving youth of color access to information needed to navigate being artists in Minnesota, we make room for meaning-making and self-reflection through art.