Youth Matters
The artists selected for Youth Matters were chosen for their engagement with issues surrounding young people and education. Pat Bacon has made a series of tributes to her high school art classes entitled Students and Desks. Marion Faller systematically photographed the contents of her son's pockets (with his knowledge and consent) over two years time. Tim Rollins and KOS are best known for a series of projects in which Rollins and his student collaborators--young people living in the Bronx--read and dicuss books and then create visual counterparts for the printed words--usually painted, cut, and burned into the actual book pages, mounted on canvas for this purpose. Adrienne Salinger has produced a series of photographs called Teenagers in their Bedrooms.
Tim Rollins and KOS visited the Castellani and did a brief project with students from the Niagara Falls Alternative School. Rollins and KOS also created a painting especially for the exhibition, Red Badge of Courage 1996, which was purchased by the museum along with a series of 10 works on paper, Temptations of St. Antony. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalog, and a series of teacher training workshops, student workshops, and tours. It traveled to the Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College.