Mission:
To foster the leadership potential of young people as social entrepreneurs producing multimedia arts for community action and income. GOALS:
CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING
• Build a strong sense of personal/communal awareness and identity.
• Investigate and combat intrinsic and extrinsic cultural biases by developing new perspectives about themselves and their community.
• Peer-to-pee
r skill-sharing between and amongst the Senior and Junior Viewfinders provides facilitation, teaching and mentorship experience and leadership development. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
• Community “voice” through public dialogue and exchange.
• Action initiatives designed and implemented utilizing art as a tool for creative change.
• Public events in which all partner organizations celebrate their work, thereby instilling pride and accomplishment. TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Photography: schools, styles and strategies for conveying ideas, information and feelings,
including aperture settings, shutter speed, white balance, etc.
• Videography: short format editing, directing/managing shots, writing, story-boarding, etc.
• Stop animation and motion graphics, Adobe Photoshop and other digital and graphic
design applications. ENTREPRENEURISM
• Investigate larger benefits of a community arts program as they relate to economic demands of their neighborhood.
• Acquire and practice business skills sets via mentorship by local business leaders.
• Develop business plans supporting earned income strategies and related initiatives.
