Community Engagement + Mentorship Program

Spring, 2022 - Ongoing

Southwest Creative Studio’s Community Engagement + Mentorship Program is a youth-focused program that provides support, resources, and facilitation to large or small scale projects. With a particular focus on young artists living in neighborhoods where access to arts programming/education is historically scarce, this program fully produces the ideas and projects of Chicago’s young creatives.

For our inaugural project, we are collaborating with four teens from the Southside and Southwest Side of Chicago to fully write and publish a children’s book about a young girl living with severe eczema. The project is in full swing and we are looking forward to sharing the final project with you!

Learn more about the book project here!

Follow the teen’s progress on Instagram: @chicagobookteam