SPACES and the Tamir Rice Foundation have joined forces to bring art to youth at the Cuyahoga County Detention Center.
They’re looking for donations of new or gently used art supplies and other materials that can be used in healing-centered art-making workshops, led by SPACES Satellite Fund Recipient Lexy Lattimore and the Cuyahoga County Jail Coalition Arts and Culture Team. Their mission is “to empower justice-impacted youth with the creative skills to express their feelings and tell their stories while building healing relationships with peers and community members. The teaching artists involved have survived over-policing and incarceration and seek to envision and establish alternatives to these systems in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.”
There will be four collection bins, repainted and repurposed from the exhibit A Color Removed, which took place at SPACES as part of the 2018 FRONT International Triennial. They’ll be painted with scenes celebrating Rice, who was killed by Cleveland police in November 2014. They’ll be located at SPACES, at Toby’s Plaza outside moCa Cleveland, at Robinson G. Jones Elementary School on West 150th and Roxboro Middle School in Cleveland Heights, both of which Rice attended. The bins will be available through the end of the summer.
To donate directly to the Tamir Rice Foundation, currently constructing the Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center on St. Clair to offer youth arts opportunities and civic education, visit tamirericefoundation.
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