We partnered with Smack Mellon once again for Art Ready 2022. We worked with high school and middle school students as well as peer mentors on a project called live forever. The project involved creating a time capsule and several art pieces that reflect the unified “Live 4ever” theme.
Arnsonia and Kyrone were Art Ready‘s high school students along with peer leaders, Devon Smith Jr., Nemo Ibrihim, Godly Didi, Dante Alford, and Bklyn Combine mentee, Kwadwo Magloire.
In addition to the wooden time capsule that we built with the help and guidance of Devon and Sarah from Beam Center, we also created unique family crests. For each of the family crests designed, we created a 3-D print to be included in the time capsule.
This year’s Art Ready team also drew characters that we developed as NFTs. These NFTs reflect the Live 4ever theme and are referred to as “The 4EVERS”. In addition, (with a ton of help from Sarah) we printed miniature versions of our NFT characters as collectible risograph prints.
The group didn’t stop there. They also wrote and recited poems that reflect our individual interpretations of the Live 4ever mantra. These poems were recited in this recap of our project. Special thank you to Beam Center, Bucktown USA, and many others.