The artwork on display was created by incarcerated youth. One of the missions of the collaboration is to encourage the young people they work with to focus on where they’re going, not where they started. BlackVoicesWTTW
SkyART, the Weinburg/Newton Gallery and Arts and Public Life are partnering for a three-part exhibition series as they work to explore the impact incarceration has on young people.View all sponsors
One of the missions of the collaboration is to encourage the young people they work with to focus on where they’re going, not where they started. “We’re trying to rescue some of the innocence that was never really afforded to these kids. We know that our poor Black and Brown communities are over criminalized, and often times through the foster care system, through poorly funded education, all the way through incarceration,” said Devon VanHouten-Maldonado of SkyART. “These youth are … never afforded the innocent childhood that all children deserve.
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