The Justice Parade, Richmond VA

Art shouldn’t only exist in museums and galleries…We use parades to create people-powered art exhibits!

In collaboration with ART 180 and RISE 4 Youth, we held workshops with youth at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center. Teens in the program created a series of portraits that visualize things they want to SEE, SCREAM, and HEAR throughout Richmond, VA. In partnership with artists at Studio Two Three, the teens transformed their images and text into powerful silk screen designs that they printed on hundreds of t-shirts and posters to be used, worn, and given out during the annual Juvenile Justice Parade. Parade participants also marched holding additional artwork and photo banners co-created by youth in the program becoming a megaphone for the voices and demands of youth in the system.