Welcome to Teenage Wasteland of the Arts culminating exhibition

Opening reception FRIDAY MAY 18th 6-9 PM

Exhibition continues Saturday May 19th from 12-10 pm.

Participating Artists:
Max Wortman, Anais Hinojosa, Nina Arsenian, Andrew Becerra, Sam Hinsvark, Jacob Small, Val Koziak, Alisa Cacho-Sousa, and Finn West

Teenage Wasteland of the Arts is an artist collective for teens aged 14-19. The collective was founded by both teens and adults in September of 2011. Since January this year , members of the collective have met once a week for 2 hours at a time, at Human Resources, preparing work for this show.  All the work in the show is made by teen members of the collective.

We are currently in the middle of a fundraiser for the program –please check out our KICKSTARTER PAGE:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1373562771/twa-dogma-2012

Our goal as an art collective is to create an inspiring, philosophical environment for teen artists to express their fears, dreams and nightmares, their hopes, angst and oppression, in a positive and safe way.  This February, members of Teenage Wasteland of the Arts wrote their own artist dogma, aptly named TWA DOGMA 2012, which has served as inspirational guidelines to frame the work made by the collective this spring.

For more information on the collective please visit our website:

www.wastelandofthearts.com

TWA DOGMA 2012

Every piece must have an element of collage

Work made under the dogma must be a time-based piece

Work must be explicit

Everyone must accept everyone else’s opinon/pages

Everyone is a real fascist

Art is not a means but an end

Art is not one or the other

DIT (do it together)

Binary thinking is prohibited

There is no sexuality

All rules must be broken

Art goes to museums to die – Art cannot breathe under glass

The process of meandering is necessary

We are post-post-modern