Teen Arts Council (TAC)
Teen Arts Council (TAC) is a group of student leaders who collaborate with the Arts + Public Life initiative to develop creative skills, leadership experience, and opportunities for their peers to engage with the arts.
TAC Fall 2020 Coursework Assignments
Guest Artist Workshops
In collaboration with Chicago-based artist, Rebel Betty, teens engaged in a collage-making workshop that examined ancestral forms of resistance and culture through storytelling.
Collage by Kareema G.
Collage by Lily W.
Collage by Justina I.
TAC Students share their collages
Portraiture
Family and friends served as inspiration in this study of portraiture. Strengthening their skills as natural-light photographers and narrative-builders, teens captured the charisma and personalities of these their models and documented their personal stories which are featured in their final project.
FINAL PROJECT
The Long and Short of it is the second edition of the TAC Magazine. Working from home, teens interviewed friends and family or “pod-mates” to get their perspective on care, hope, and resilience.
TAC Instructor
José ‘Chicle’ Córcoles-Vargas (He/Them) is a visual artist based in Chicago, IL. Jose’s work aims to upend the image of the meek working-class Mexican, challenging the politics of respectability while seeking non-conventional forms and fusions to tell stories. He reaches back and borrows from his migrant ancestors, paying homage to his Mexican and Guatemalan roots through photography and filmmaking while exploring themes of labor, class struggle and time. After graduating from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 José has been working primarily as a teaching artist, photojournalist and filmmaker.