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starshipgeorgia · 1 year

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Vena Roa / Axi

Layce / Bortik

T'Yel / Avarin

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#vena roa art #vena roa #axi #axi art #layce #layce art #bortik #bortik art #t'yel #t'yel art #avarin #avarin art

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fatebit-remade-blog · 7 years

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glitter pen doodles

#cuphead #mugman #my ocs #layce #zel #zel does art #masterpieces

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crownedlegend · 7 years

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II by ART-by-LAYCE

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thebombbag · 7 years

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In February of 2015, Kathy Crutcher wrote me on the recommendation of friend and fellow comics editor Matt Dembicki, and asked if I’d like to do a comics workshop at the Gaithersburg Book Festival in exchange for a free table. Kathy’s email signature had her as the founder of Shout Mouse Press, a non-profit publisher that specialized in coaching teen writers, primarily from disenfranchised communities, and publishing their creations. I loved Shout Mouse’s model, and as I was packing up on my table after the book festival, I told Kathy I’d love to work with them in the future.

Later that year, in November of 2015, Kathy wrote me because she just finished reading ARISTS against POLICE BRUTALITY, the anthology I co-edited with Bill Campbell and John Jennings for Rosarium Publishing. Shout Mouse had just published OUR LIVES MATTER, a book where 30 teen authors from Washington DC wrote personal essays about race, inequality, violence, and justice against the backdrop of the #blacklivesmattermovement. Kathy and I had a drink and discussed the similarities between our books and ways that we could work together in the future.

The opportunity came in late 2016, two weeks after the Presidential Election. I just finished sending Colonial Comics: New England, 1750-1775 to my publisher and was planning Civics Tracts when Kathy wrote and asked if I’d be interested in participating in a project where first-generation Latinx teens would speak back to the current political climate by telling their personal stories in comic book form. I was on board from the start and started putting together my comics team.

Liz Laribee and I met with Kathy in December. We brought Evan Keeling and Santiago Casares on shortly after. We found a partner in the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) and submitted a grant application to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The grant was approved, and starting in July we’ll be running a series of 8 comic-making workshops for a book that will be released in early 2018.

I’m very proud to be working with this team. We all met for the first time last night, and the amount of passion and energy in the room was infectious. We’re all coming together with the mission to help 18 young teenagers, young LEADERS, tell their stories of why they came to America, their hopes and dreams, and the problems they deal with day-to-day.

Workshops begin July 3rd. The book is set to be published in early 2018. Please follow the attached link for updates on the project. And thank you, as always, for your continued support.

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grey-march · 5 years

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Next batch of OCtober art!

Day 13: Cas Teague

Day 14: Cyrene McKay

Day 15: Ada Layce

Day 16: Mary 'the Knife' Mack

#Ash art.#Cas Teague.#Cyrene McKay.#Ada Layce.#Mary Mack.

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24mobrockeats · 7 years

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@mnmcreative and @laycdc are hosting an event of art music and food, come thru and help us build a movement of positive resistance in chocolate city!! I'm gonna be one of the visual artists there. Vibe wit us. #washingtondc #dc #art #arte #latino #hispanic #raza #revolution #acreativedc #streetart #graffitiart #urbanart #urbano #bolivian #dmv #event #artshow #instagraff #instaart #flowers #rfr #boricua #europe #graffiti #layc (at Columbia Heights)

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dcmuraleslatinos · 7 years

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Community Involvement

It usually takes a community effort to create a street mural.

Latin American Youth Center was founded in 1968 in an effort to empower low-income youth. Many of the community based murals on our map such as #’s 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 26 & 30 were painted in collaboration with LAYC youth. The mural pictured, “After the Comet,” was painted in 1985 by Jorge Somarriba and LAYC youth.

El Centro de Arte began in the 1970’s and is no longer around but was a community organization that orchestrated many arts and cultural projects. Many community members received their first training in the arts through this center.

Besides LAYC and el Centro de Arte, other institutions that have supported Latino mural-making in D.C. include CentroNía, a bilingual school in Columbia Heights; the National Zoo; the Smithsonian Latino Center; the D.C. Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs; the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; and MuralsDC, an organization funded by the D.C. Department of Public Works to create new murals in the city.

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imrannkhurshid · 7 years

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Learning about the Youth Potential at the Latin American Youth Center

[This blog was cross-posted in the Atlas Corps blog.] I could hardly wait to conduct the workshop at the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC). Prior to this day I reached out to Lina del Pilar Bocanegra – an Atlas Corps Fellow from Colombia serving at this organization about designing and facilitating a workshop. It was intended to help the kids from the marginalized community get a new perspective by meeting me - someone from a different country and by hearing my life’s story. It was also very appealing to me as it would give me a new perspective about how this organization worked and understand how the children from this community were supported by United States of America through this organization. Thanks to Lina as she was absolutely supportive while designing and conducting the workshop!

On the day of the workshop as soon as I arrived at LAYC, I was mesmerized by the enthusiasm of the youth while they were making the jewelry. I started to reminisce on my childhood years when I made crafts and used to paint. As Lina and I were re-organizing the room before we could begin I took the opportunity to see how passionately they were crafting their work. LAYC was a wonderful place located at the heart of Washington DC filled with children who resided in the US. They came from the marginalized communities across the US. LAYC is an ideal institution to empower these children to have a better transition to the adulthood through Arts and Recreation, Job Readiness Program, Safe Housing, etc.

I began the workshop with my story of my childhood – the challenges and opportunities that I got at that time. I shared about the inspiration by the people all around me and how I gradually learned to learn from the challenges. I shared stories of my friends and about their struggles. They listened with awe. Their gleaming eyes told me a lot about their lives, and seeing their responses and admiration, I could relate their lives with my stories. At one point they shared what they admired about their peers. It was great to know that there was the practice of appreciation and gratitude for the positive things that were present among the group.

This session helped me to understand the perspectives of these young people and I wanted to help them get the idea of some new ones by sharing my experiences on youth leadership development in Bangladesh. I revisited why it is important to nurture the creativity of young people and build their leadership skills from a very young age. If we look at our schools we do not work hard enough to understand the children. There is no room for emotional growth and learning about emotional intelligence which is reflected later on in the child’s life through her personal, academic and professional lives!

I utilized my skills of teacher training in Bangladesh and youth empowerment initiatives in both USA and Bangladesh to help the youth at the center understand their emotional awareness and develop confidence. For this reason, we as adults should pursue the goal of understanding the kids around us, their needs and learn to empathize with them all the time to make them future leaders.

You can try out the following to help the younger ones build self-confidence:

1. Share your stories of childhood with them to let them know what you did and what interested you. Help them relate them to their lives in a way to help them try out new things. 2. Talk about dealing with different type of people. Teach them to empathize with other children and share things despite differences in color, race or religion. 3. Help them understand the importance of hardships and that putting efforts themselves are rewarding. Also, it is alright not to come first in everything every time. 4. Understand what excites them. Learn about their learning styles and teach them things accordingly. For example, if a child is a visual learner, facilitate his learning visually the same thing that another child who is a kinesthetic learner and learning it by doing. 5. Understand the learning needs of the children – they can be both behavioral or academic. All children are not the same.

With Lina and Some Learners at the Latin American Youth Center

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starshipgeorgia · 8 months

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