I Have a Right Too... Favorite 

Date: 

Oct 10 2014

Location: 

St. Louis, MO

CAM brings contemporary art and ideas directly to Saint Louis Public High School and Middle School students through its ArtReach program. Tailored to meet the needs of individual schools and teachers, ArtReach is designed to raise awareness of contemporary issues through an exploration of contemporary art. The program includes a curriculum-based offering of museum tours, school visits, and creative workshops for students and teachers alike.

Throughout the fall 2014 semester, the ArtReach team met with fifteen art classes within Saint Louis Public Schools’ middle and high schools. Students experienced virtual tours of the Mel Chin: Rematch exhibition, on view at CAM September 5 through December 20. Chin is known for creating complex and diverse bodies of art that often reflect issues of social justice, public health, and violence. Inspired by Chin’s work, students applied concepts of social practice art to issues of concern within their own communities.

I Have a Right To… resulted from these engagements as students created posters that completed the statement. In text and image the posters express the teens’ personal values, desires, and truths as well as what they see as legal, social, and ethical freedoms guaranteed to all citizens. Topics include youth empowerment, education, policing policies, social justice, women’s rights, racial equality, LGBTQ inclusion, wage discrimination, and more.

Participating schools in I Have a Right To… include:

Carnahan High School of the Future
Carr Lane VPA Middle School
Central Visual and Performing Arts High School
Cleveland NJROTC High School
Clyde C. Miller Career Academy
College Preparatory High School at Madison
Fanning Middle School
Innovative Concept Academy
Langston Middle School
Long Middle School
McKinley Classical Leadership Academy
Metro Academic & Classical High School
Nahed Chapman New American Academy
Roosevelt High School
Yeatman-Liddell College Preparatory Middle School

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