Favianna Rodriguez Education Award
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Help us offer an educational stipend to one of our ARTE participants at Pan American International High School, in Elmhurst, Queens!
This academic year, we have been working with two groups of students, many of whom are recent immigrants or with cultural roots from Latin America. Together, we have discussed many different human rights topics, ranging from LGBT rights to children’s rights and the right to adequate health care, creating unique and dynamic art projects around those issues. As a culminating experience, our students are painting a mural at their school which focuses on the human rights topics which have most resonated with them and their community: immigrant rights and racial discrimination.
On June 10th, we will have a community celebration where the students will reveal their mural to their classmates, families, and others members to educate them about the significance of those issues, both in the greater worldview, but also personally. We will honor all of the hard work, creativity, and thoughtfulness that they’ve contributed to the development of the mural throughout the year.
At this event, we would also like to recognize one student by offering them a small scholarship, named in honor of acclaimed artist and migrant rights organizer Favianna Rodriguez, to be used towards college or other educational pursuits. To be considered for a scholarship, a student must have participated in the ARTE class at Pan American and submit a short application detailing what human rights issue resonates with them and why, how they will work to make change surrounding that topic, and how the stipend would help them achieve their goals.
Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE) is an organization that uses art, design, and technology to empower young people to develop creative solutions and bring awareness to local and global human rights challenges, fostering leadership opportunities to train and organize other young people in their own communities.
To learn more about our work, please visit: www.artejustice.org or find us on Facebook!
Favianna Rodriguez is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer on a mission to create profound and lasting social change in the world. Her art and collaborative projects address migration, global politics, economic injustice, gender justice and interdependence. Favianna’s practice is grounded in the desire to humanize and empower communities who are impacted by inequality and racism. She submerges herself fully in the issues she addresses in order to produce work that is informed by the social and political conditions of the time. She spends time on the front lines with affected communities, researches policies, and supports fellow artists of color and migrants through resources, mentorship, and collaborative opportunities. Born in Oakland, California, Favianna’s earliest mentors were artists and movement leaders in the Chicano and Black Arts Movement. When Favianna is not making art, she is directing CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights.
To learn more about her work, please visit:
www.favianna.com.
This academic year, we have been working with two groups of students, many of whom are recent immigrants or with cultural roots from Latin America. Together, we have discussed many different human rights topics, ranging from LGBT rights to children’s rights and the right to adequate health care, creating unique and dynamic art projects around those issues. As a culminating experience, our students are painting a mural at their school which focuses on the human rights topics which have most resonated with them and their community: immigrant rights and racial discrimination.
On June 10th, we will have a community celebration where the students will reveal their mural to their classmates, families, and others members to educate them about the significance of those issues, both in the greater worldview, but also personally. We will honor all of the hard work, creativity, and thoughtfulness that they’ve contributed to the development of the mural throughout the year.
At this event, we would also like to recognize one student by offering them a small scholarship, named in honor of acclaimed artist and migrant rights organizer Favianna Rodriguez, to be used towards college or other educational pursuits. To be considered for a scholarship, a student must have participated in the ARTE class at Pan American and submit a short application detailing what human rights issue resonates with them and why, how they will work to make change surrounding that topic, and how the stipend would help them achieve their goals.
Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE) is an organization that uses art, design, and technology to empower young people to develop creative solutions and bring awareness to local and global human rights challenges, fostering leadership opportunities to train and organize other young people in their own communities.
To learn more about our work, please visit: www.artejustice.org or find us on Facebook!
Favianna Rodriguez is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer on a mission to create profound and lasting social change in the world. Her art and collaborative projects address migration, global politics, economic injustice, gender justice and interdependence. Favianna’s practice is grounded in the desire to humanize and empower communities who are impacted by inequality and racism. She submerges herself fully in the issues she addresses in order to produce work that is informed by the social and political conditions of the time. She spends time on the front lines with affected communities, researches policies, and supports fellow artists of color and migrants through resources, mentorship, and collaborative opportunities. Born in Oakland, California, Favianna’s earliest mentors were artists and movement leaders in the Chicano and Black Arts Movement. When Favianna is not making art, she is directing CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights.
To learn more about her work, please visit:
www.favianna.com.
Organizer
Marissa A. Gutiérrez-Vicario
Organizer
New York, NY