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.
FINAL PROJECT
This summer, Teen Arts Council read and discussed Octavia Spencer’s Sci-Fi novel Parable of the Sower. Inspired by parallel themes between the novel and Chicago in 2020, teens drafted a magazine to capture their experiences as South Side teens living through a summer of quarantine, isolation, social unrest, and economic uncertainty.
Watch to learn more about the process for developing the TAC Summer 2020 Mag
TAC Instructor
José 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.