Tag Archives: Art
Poster Youth
January 27, 2012 — by
La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s. La Raza Silkscreen Centre taught kids the skills needed to design their own posters. Powerful prints!
Teen Connection Theatre
January 9, 2012 — by
Teens connect and make theatre together—workshopping skits, painting scenery and field tripping. In 1986-1988, the Centro Cultural de la Raza community center hosted young productions. The center was co-founded in 1970 by Chicano poet Alurista and artist Victor Ochoa, known as a center of indigenismo (indigenism) during the Aztlán phase of Chicano art in the early 1970s.
Youth and Beauty at the Brooklyn Museum
January 3, 2012 — by
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties is a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, which examines young people’s powerful influence on the visual culture of the 1920s. Our film will look closely at Flappers, and how this American youth culture, their jazz, fashion, and partying, would inspire teenagers around the world. So we were intrigued to see this show, and excited to discuss our overlapping interests with the exhibition’s curator Terry Carbone.
Nothing in the World But Youth
December 27, 2011 — by
Nothing in the World But Youth is a prolific museum exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate, a seaside town in England. 94 artists and over 200 works in the show examine the idea of youth. When I learned about the exhibition and read the incredible catalog, I knew that our projects were on a similar wavelength, so I interviewed the curator Lauren Wright. Read our conversation after the jump…
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Street Snaps
December 23, 2011 — by
Prolific photographer Martha Cooper captured the gritty culture of New York City streets during the 1970s and ’80s. She’s best known for cataloging the endless tags and murals of influential 80s graffiti artists, respecting their work as art. Check out her books of photographs: Hip Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984, Subway Art and Tag Town.
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