CROSS-POLLINATION harwood outreach, apprenticeship and collaborative program artists

Featuring artworks created in community through the Youth Mural Project, Social Practice, and our paid summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice. This exhibition highlights Harwood’s outreach, apprenticeship and collabortive program artists.

Pages 30-35, Cross-Pollination, installation, 2023 Aziza Murray and Harwood Art Center, All Rights Reserved

This exhibition highlights Harwood’s outreach programs and features artworks created in community through the Youth Mural Project, Social Practice Project, and our paid summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice. Students at Hayes and Garfield Middle Schools create murals for their campuses and collaborate to create a mural for the public. In 2020 - 2021, students worked remotely on Safety Net with Teaching Artists Helen Atkins and Jen DePaolo on the creation of individual hexagons that were later sewed together. In 2023, students will collaborate on a new mural that celebrates safety, growth and healing.

Harwood launched its Social Practice project Safety Net in 2020 - 2021 for remote participation through the pandemics. We asked people to consider what provided a sense of hope and safety for them as they embellished hexagons for this community portrait that includes contributions from students, staff, gallery visitors, teaching and resident artists and friends from across the city.

Harwood’s Paid Summer Apprenticeship in Art & Social Justice mentors youth aged 17-24 through the co-creation of community-driven public artworks that pursue equity. Our artworks promote intersectional justice through: studying and practicing the tenets of transformational justice within our collaboration, nurturing the park’s ecosystem, celebrating local residents through collaboration and oral history, and drawing resources and attention to the park neighborhood.

All Together

harwood + escuela staff artists, teaching artists and studio artists

All Togeher is an exhibition of work made by Harwood Art Center’s extended community reflecting our organization’s mission to nurture a passion for lifelong learning, creative expression and engaged citizenship.

Participating Artists:

Helen Atkins, Sara Baecher, Jordyn Bernicke, Lindsay Brenner, Caitlin Carcerano

Christiana Cook, Elora & Willow Daniels, Jen DePaolo, Ken Gingerich, Celine

Gordon, Sofie Hecht, Harley Kirschner, Chris Martinez, Sandra Muñoz Puga, Alina Pozas, MB Ramos, Angelika Rinnhofer, Sallie Scheufler, Benjamin Tobias

Chandler Wigton, Shereen Zangeneh and Molly Zimmer