Youth Artivism: What Does An Equitable Future Look Like to You?
Virtual Reality Art Exhibition
In 2020, I led an event committee of high school students to curate and design a virtual reality art exhibition. For the first time, the NYC Department of Education’s Annual Youth Summit featured an art exhibition that showcased over 50 youth artists from all 5 boroughs in New York City. In alignment with the Youth Summit's focus on dismantling disproportionality, we invited artists to submit and create pieces that envisions what a fair, just, and equitable world looks like.
The theme of the exhibition centered around artivism, the fusion of art and activism. Through various artistic mediums—painting, mixed media, sketching, spoken word, fashion, and performance— artists expressed their voices and used their art to advocate for social justice.
The artivists featured in this gallery tackled issues such as mental health, racial justice, economic justice, and educational inequity—challenges they have witnessed in their schools and communities.
The exhibitions offers visions of the world young people aspire to create, promoting peace, sustainability, fairness, and equity.