TRUCE Recycling Arts Exhibition

chashama is pleased to present TRUCE Recycling Arts Exhibition, an exhibition that celebrates this world, our hope to create a better and safe environment and to pay a tribute to the ones from everywhere who are suffering because of AIDS.

 

TRUCE (The Renaissance University for Community Education) is an award-winning after-school arts and media literacy program of the Harlem Children's Zone (www.hcz.org). The Harlem Children's Zone is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the problems of truancy, violence, foster care, pregnancy, poor school performance, and lack of self-esteem among high-risk New York City youth. TRUCE's mission is to educate and empower youth to become agents of positive personal and social change through the arts, academics and activism. TRUCE, a comprehensive youth development program for 150 adolescents between the ages of 13-19, uses the integration of arts, literacy, community building and youth development in curriculum design.

 

Through a variety of hands-on, youth directed projects, young people participate in creating a cable TV program (The Real Deal) that features poetry, music videos video dramas, PSA's and documentaries. Harlem Overheard is a youth-produced newspaper that reaches more than 75,000 readers. Students are involved in every facet of newspaper production and gain writing, computer and leadership skills. In the visual arts, a program called A Different Lens allows students to design mural and community garden projects that beautify spaces throughout Harlem. The students study photography, painting and collage. HOTWorks showcases students' writing, acting and directing talents. The Insight Center provides academic support with an intensive college preparatory approach, one-on-one tutoring, counseling, SAT Prep, Regents and 8th grade test Prep. 

 

Artist and teacher, Vickie Fremont has created a program based on recycled materials. The Recycled Art Program is, very simply put, a workshop-type activity in which recycled materials become educational tools and art. In a general way, the Recycled Art Program contributes to a positive attitude towards and concern for the world we live in. She is working on a major exhibition, RE… Exhibition: (Revival Reclamation Regeneration Reflection Renewal Renovation Reconstruction Revivification Re…cycling Re…naissance. Any and all of these terms are descriptive of our world today and also descriptive of our urban settings, much like the Big Apple where she lives. It is that living City and globe that Vickie intends to illustrate through installation/pictures).