Design Your Neighborhood Celebration

Photo of the corner of the room, courtesy of Elisa Renouard

For the past three months, I have been the teaching artist in a program that is a partnership between the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Parks and Recreation. The program, called Design Your Neighborhood, is a free, intensive program for teens in Seattle that teaches them about art and design, and how it can be used to bring positive social change in their communities.

As part of the celebration, I designed custom business cards for each student

This session, I was teaching at the South Park Community Center, where I led a group of about ten teens in the process of redoing the Teen Room in the center. We met for 8 hours a week for three months, the students had a budget of $2,000, and a lot of guidance from some amazing people in the community, including Elisa Renouard and Jerry Garcia, both of whom are architects at Olson Kundig. 

It was an amazing experience, and I will be putting a video up soon.