Kristiana Rae Colón quotes

I was like, "Man, young people in Chicago need to hear these young people in Ferguson articulate that, because that's so powerful for young people to come to that political awakening on their own-outside of academia, outside of institutions that they've been denied access to.” And so we were really inspired to build with them. And we came back the next week and asked them if we could launch a pop-up gallery on their campsite. So we printed the photos that we had taken the week before, we brought down easels, and we created a pop-up gallery on the camp site-that was sort of the first gesture, the first portal of this loose collective of artists that would later become #LetUsBreathe, using art as an access point for political education and engagement, turning the Ferguson protest's occupation into an art gallery...