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 Spring 2021 Coursework Assignments
Morning Routines
As a community-building activity, teens were asked to document their morning routines to share how they prepare for the day ahead of them. Through recording and editing, students produced short intimate videos that included remote learning, coffee, and a lot of teeth being brushed.
Video Collage Project
This term TAC participants collaborated with the team at South Side Home Movie Projects to learn about preserving and archiving South Side Chicago history. Using the South Side Home Movie Project archive, teens created video collages connecting moments in time across families through everyday events.
Final Project
Video Essays
To deepen their engagement with the South Side Home Movie Project, teens created a video essay using footage from the archive about a topic of interest to them. Teens created shot lists, engaged in research, developed narratives, and edited their findings. This culminating project activated all of the knowledge and skills they gained throughout the term, including creating visual narratives grounded in research and video editing.
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.