Black Table Arts Youth Cooperative Lab
Black Table Arts operates a community-driven, cooperative space by and for Black artists in South Minneapolis. Our summer Youth Cooperative Lab will expand access to this space to high school students as we excavate the tradition of arts organizing through Black literature and protest writing. Through workshops with organizers, educators, and artists, the young writers will draw inspiration from the history of arts activism while improving their own writing craft and developing as changemakers.
2022-2023 Cultural Heritage and Community Identity Grants - Winter 2021
Through the 8-week Youth Cooperative Lab experience, youth will:
* increase their knowledge of the history of Black art activism and changemaking
* increase their knowledge of how to use writing to express their voices
* increase connections to others in the Black arts community
* apply what they've learned through the program to a final pieces of art work reflective of their identities as changemakers