Justice RE-IMAGINED … Youth Fellowship 2024
Applications are now being accepted for the Justice Re-Imagined Youth Fellowship 2024!
The Justice Re-Imagined Youth Fellowship is sponsored by Art From the Inside (AFTI) and in association with Black Youth Healing Arts Center. For the past five years, AFTI exhibited the artwork of men and women in the Minnesota corrections system, some of them incarcerated as youth. We are grateful to have the chance to meet the children, parents, families and friends of our artists by doing this work. They have a unique story to share. Through funding by the Cultural Star Grant, we will give a voice to youth impacted by the criminal justice system.
We are seeking 15 youth, ages 14-19 years of age, who have experienced incarceration themselves or have a family member who is currently or formerly incarcerated. Fellows who complete the fellowship will be paid a stipend of $250. Youth must also allow their works to be displayed for the community in a July 2024 exhibition at the Central Library in downtown Saint Paul. Students under 18 who are selected to participate will need to have a parent or legal guardian complete a permission form in order to participate.
The question for our youth Fellows is: How would you reimagine community safety?
The 2024 Justice Re-Imagined Youth Fellowship seeks to re-imagine what justice looks like through the eyes of our future. We believe our youth hold the answers to creating a new paradigm for community safety that disrupts violence and supports our communities to live in harmony, respect, and peace, and where individuals and families can thrive. We will inspire our Fellows to reimagine a more just, rehabilitative, restorative community safety system. Participants will share their ideas through visual art and written word. Their works will be displayed at a public exhibition at the end of the Fellowship.
The Fellowship will take place over four Saturdays, April to June 2024. Each Saturday session will be 5 hours long from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Fellows will: 1) create visual and written works of art that speak to their experience with, and vision for Justice, 2) learn from accomplished artists writers, and community leaders 3) attend a private showing of the JUSTICE RE-FORMED exhibition at Attorney General Keith Ellison's Office at the state capitol in St. Paul.
Fellows must be able to attend the following sessions.
April 27, 2024: Orientation and Art Session I 10am-3pm
May 4, 2024: Field Trip to AG's Office and State Capital, Debrief/Art Session II 10am-3pm
May 18, 2024: Art Session III 10am-3pm
June 1, 2024: Art Session IV 10am-3pm
Exhibition of Youth Fellows Art: Central Library, St. Paul, MN, July 2024.