AS220 YOUTH: EXAMPLES OF

ARTWORK

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Culture, Communities, and Change

115 empire streetprovidence, ri 02912

“moon cycles”

– ysanel torres[painting]

“AS220 Youth is a great place for people to be themselves

and do anything they want to do in life. It is limitless.”

– Jamale Jay

“skateboarding is the fountain of

youth” –

kyle collins

[print]

“batman” –

henry guerrero

[painting]

[AS220] is like one of them places where it’s like if you’re not sure you can ask; and if they not sure, they’ll find out the answer.” – John

Bhogal

“patterns”

– julia

goncalves

[painting]

“collage” –

mikaela gonzaga

“AS220 is a second home. Everybody here cares about what you think. No ideas are crazy to the staff here. You can come up with the craziest idea ever, and they will support you as long as you are sure

that it is what you want to do.” – Indira Miller

“snake (#1)” –

boantheng

tanakhone

[print]

street signs

(current as220 youth

project)[project] this street

sign project for the city of Providence was birthed from the creation of

various “collage masks” for youth

in the Rhode Island Training

School to wear and be photographed. it has grown into

this full-fledged art project that will be displayed at street signs throughout

the city.

“are we here yet?” – a project by the Square Mile Multiple Pathway Program

“are we here yet?”

[#1][photo] some photos of a

Central Falls student in the Square Mile

program.

“are we here yet?”

[#2][photos] some photos of a

Central Falls students in the

Square Mile program.

masks for youth at

the Rhode Island

Training School

[project] masks used by youth in the Rhode

Island Training School to be

photographed with privacy.

portraits from the Rhode Island

Training School [#1]

[photo] to protect the

privacy of those in the Rhode

Island Training School , the AS220 Youth photography

class within the correctional facility took

photos of the youth in

positions and stances that

protected their identities.

portraits from the Rhode Island

Training School [#2]

[photo] to protect the

privacy of those in the Rhode

Island Training School , the AS220 Youth photography

class within the correctional facility took

photos of the youth in

positions and stances that

protected their identities.

“gone but never

forgotten” –

tribute[one part of the

mural covering the walls of one room in the as220 youth

studio] a large mural in the as200 youth

studio includes tributes to

as220 youth students

who’ve passed – because art

endures.

credit

◦ all photos of artwork taken either at the as220 youth studio or from the as220 youth website (student art portfolios).

http://youth.as220.org/portfolios/

◦ quotes taken from the as220 youth program “about” booklet http://issuu.com/as220youth/docs/as220-youth-program/13?e=7532735/1846463

& an interview of as220 youth member John Bhogalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am_bgffj_KU