July 7, 2010 - August 18, 2010
ECHO, ECHOES, ECHOEDSouthern Exposure's 15th Annual Mission Voices Summer (MVS)
Opening/Grito de la Mision Celebration: Wednesday, August 18, 6:00-8:00pm
Program Dates: July 7 – August 18, 2010
Lead Artists: Llewelynn Fletcher, Ace Lehner, Matthew Rana
Artist Assistants: Ana Bedolla, Carlos Ramirez, Anastasja Robinson
Youth Leaders: Stephanie Lopez, Maxine Puorro and Benito Rodriguez
Collaborator Partners: Jewish Vocational Services (JVS), Mayor's Youth Employment Education Program (MYEEP) and Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
Program Manager: Tara Foley
MVS Intern and Photographer: Sofia Mas
Southern Exposure’s Mission Voices Summer (MVS) is a summer arts program that gives youth the opportunity to exercise leadership skills and participate in their community by exploring relevant social and personal issues through visual arts workshops. The program focuses on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with teens through an intensive summer program. MVS teaches youth to use the visual arts as a tool to express their creative voices and to make a visual statement about their ideas, interests, and ambitions through a series of workshops that result in an exhibition presented to the community.
This year's Mission Voices Summer theme, ECHO, ECHOS, ECHOED, explores personal identity through the guise of the past, present and future. Throughout the summer, three collaborative projects, or acts, guide learning and art making, culminating in a three-act performance amidst an elaborate and compelling set.
* ACT ONE : (ECHO) FUTURE/HISTORY- Matthew Rana, assisted by Ana Bedolla work with students to generate material for an experimental play through investigations into role-playing, mimicry and memory.
* ACT TWO: (ECHOES) PAST/PLACE- Llewelynn (Welly) Fletcher assisted by Carlos Ramirez facilitate a set design workshop, including the making of a moveable stage, costumes and masks. Students make masks with clay, plaster, wax and dermagel and students explore notions of place through scavenging the neighborhood, collecting sounds, artifacts and making clay impressions.
* ACT THREE: (ECHOED) PRESENT/IDENTITY- Ace Lehner assisted by Anastasja (Taj) Robinson focus on self-reflection through the medium of photography and costume design.
Generous support for SoEx's Artists in Education Programs is provided by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The L.E.A.W Family Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The San Francisco Arts Commission.
