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CURRENT PROGRAMS:

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS!

HOME IS WHERE YOU MAKE IT:
From August 1 - 21, 2009, Kulture Klub Collaborative (KKC) will present Home Is Where You Make It, a three week-long residency project with artists Lauri Lyons (NYC) and Tish Jones.

Home Is Where You Make It, will promote public awareness and recognition of the homeless youth population in the Twin Cities and provide an opportunity for homeless youth to develop and display their artwork to a broad audience. A three week long series of artist led workshops will invite homeless youth to write personal narratives and shoot black and white portraits, which will be digitally enlarged and mounted onto cardboard and assembled by the teens into 5’ x 7’ ‘houses’ on the street. The resulting structures will challenge common perceptions of the homeless population and literally bring a face to the issues they encounter daily.

Six ‘houses’ will be installed at various locations across the Twin Cities, including a temporary installation at the Walker Art Center in partnership with the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC). In addition, a companion book will accompany the project, featuring the portraits and handwritten texts of each teen discussing their interpretation of the term ‘home’ as well as their experiences being homeless. Fifty books will be printed, distributed to participants, and available for purchase online.

Important Events and Dates:
• Workshops with KKC youth will run Mon-Fri beginning Aug. 3 and ending Aug. 21, 2009.
• Lyons will be a guest on MPR’s “Mid-Morning” from 9am – 10am, Aug. 20th.
• Lyons will give a free public lecture at the Walker Art Center on Aug. 20th at 6:30 pm.

Home Is Where You Make It is made possible by generous support from the Nimoy Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council through an appropriation from the MN State Legislature, and the Compas United Arts Fund. The artist's hotel accommodations are generously provided by Millennium Hotel Minneapolis.