Color Compton

We are proposing funding for a creative resource program for local creatives in South LA: Developed in Compton. This creative resource center would serve the needs of local artists and allows us to offer youth career training. The center would include fine art printers, scanners, vinyl plotters, photo stations, and film developing services. We envision a center where artists can get their fine art negatives developed, photographed/scanned, fine art prints made + more. We will offer educational community workshop and work opportunities.

Our Art Abolitionist Incubator (AAI) is a 3+ cohort youth program. Centered on art and history, this program introduces the complex history of BIPOC communities and uses the arts to help youth develop their own stories and narratives. Participating youth are encouraged to develop visual narratives that complicate and abolish the negative stories catering their communities.

ColorXFilm is a collaboration project with Color Compton, a nonprofit, and The Variety Group, a multimedia company. ColorXFilm is a youth centered initiative that provides young people in Compton and surrounding areas experience in the arts and media. Through ColorXFilm, young people are hired and paid to develop their creative portfolios.

Color Compton’s “OurArchive.Me” preservation project.In close collaboration with youth this project aims to re/claim and re/tell BIPOC histories and stories.Using existing visual archives while also documenting current stories for future generations, youth will build their individual archive and ‘our’ collective archive.This project will help strengthen a communal identity and develop ownership over BIPOC histories.Youth involved will not only develop leadership skills and creative skills but build strong cross-generational coalitions.