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Digital PrintContext
From the artist:
“I worked with 8 library teen interns to create a mural piece for the garage doors in the makerspace. And it was a really beautiful and intense 2.5 months. Since the residency is all about Gathering Art, Stories and Place, that’s what I focused on with the teens talking about their personal history and sharing their personal stories about culture and home. There were a lot of revelations through this process. Working with teenagers, they shared a lot of coming of age and self-discovery stories.
We met every week and I prompted them with several questions to try and identify what their personal home, culture and history meant to them. Some of them talked about their love for dance and how that is a place that they feel safest. Some of them told personal stories of family issues and how that shaped their idea of home. We also got to talk about gender what it means to be a Latinx man and woman - how those are perceived and felt. We talked about how they identify themselves.
After those prompts, we honed in on a specific sentence to help them think about how they could represent those stories visually. Each teen created a visual symbol or logo that went with their stories. We thought it would be cool for everybody to create their own sticker and put them together as a larger design. So, the mural is actually not a painted mural but it is made of vinyl and was installed on the garage doors.”Acquisition
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Ck Ledesma