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Exhibitions

Youth Art Exhibition: Stay Woke

March 16 – 24, 2018

To “stay woke” is to be continually aware of the issues concerning social justice.

Our Youth Arts Council chose “stay woke” as the theme for the museum’s Youth Art Exhibition, presented in conjunction with Youth Invasion 2018. A call for youth artists asked for work created in response to the current political climate, social justice issues, and activism from their point of view. The results of these efforts spanned a range of schools, age groups, backgrounds and perspectives.

Three women, members of the 2018 Youth Arts Council, are standing off the the right of the frame, looking at a screenprint they have just created at Artist Image Resource. The woman on the left is holding up the screen.

Image Gallery

Group of students in front of colorful posters and large wall text that says Stay Woke

Photo by Sean Carroll

Response prompts styled to resemble protest signs hang on gallery walls adjacent to the corresponded responses, written on sticky notes
Student artwork hanging on white walls in a gallery.
Corridor of a gallery. White walls with black and white photography that is framed in fraying cardboard.
Four young male musicians perform on stage. Each one holding a different instrument - guitar, keytar, guitar and bass.

Photo by Sean Carroll

Young female performer, smiling as she points upwards and speaks in to microphone.

Photo by Sean Carroll

Two young male performers on a stage, sing into microphones.

Photo by Sean Carroll