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COOP Image (& So Fresh Printing)
The founding initiative of Cooperative Image Group, Post Our Bills utilizes abandoned buildings as opportunities to brighten communities by transforming plywood window coverings into public murals.
Youth artists create their own images and learn to implement them through silk-screen techniques and stencil production. Young artists develop through peer-mentorship: working together with more experienced high-school-age printmakers, and led by professional artists. As the printed boards beautify vacant buildings across the city, youth and community gain a voice in the appearance of their neighborhoods.
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So Fresh Printing is a core group of youth who are using the skills they learned as apprentices in the Co-op Clothing Tech program to create their own youth-operated screen-printing business. As a program initiated, operated, and sustained entirely by youth, So Fresh Printing exemplifies the goals of Co-op Image’s youth empowerment model.
