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Passion to Profession

Announcement

This event was rescheduled to December 6.

About the Curators

Jada-Amina is an interdisciplinary visual artist, art worker, teaching artist, and curator interested in creating alternative and experimental spaces for youth and other crucial community stakeholders to explore and enrich their creative understandings, possibilities, and aspirations.

Anisa Olufemi is an independent curator and interdisciplinary artist pursuing her BFA with a focus in art histories of the African Diaspora. She hopes to contribute to the ongoing conversation around arts education accessibility and POC art space inclusion through Passion to Profession, a series of workshops.

Youth

Our teen programs aim to build a generation of connected, creative collaborators. Pictured: Kuumba Lynx performing at 21Minus 2018, an annual festival of artists under 21, curated by the Teen Creative Agency, Jun 16, 2018

Photo: Grace DuVal © MCA Chicago

At the MCA, young people not only view but engage with contemporary art and artists. The MCA makes museum resources accessible to youth so that they may dream, plan, and create responses to the issues that are important to them.