Latinx Leadership and College Experience Camp (LLCEC)
Visual Artist
2023 Art Meets Activism Grant | (Lexington) $10,000 to allow the LLCEC Social Justice Project Classes (SJPC) to offer youth opportunities to develop artistic skills while learning about social justice movements from femme and nonbinary artists. The SJPC connects creative outlets to the pursuit of social justice and supports youth leadership through artistic expression. This program will give youth space to tell their stories, heal from traumas and affirm their agency by completing a production or gaining a skill for lifelong expression.
Previous Grants
2020 Bridging Divides Grant | Erin Howard, Scz, Jesenia Avila and Armando Buenrostro (Lexington): $10,000 to offer classes which give students opportunities to develop artistic skills while learning about social justice and cultural organizing. Youth will be exposed to art making and the value of arts as a means of storytelling as well as the value of artists as paid laborers and cultural curators.