Sam Dream World by Angel Conde
Lily Pad by Francheska Craig-Millette
Young Audiences of New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania’s 2013 Ennis Beley Photography exhibition is on display at D&R Greenway Land Trust.
The Cartography of Self is scheduled to be open on business days through Aug. 8 in Olivia Rainbow Student Gallery, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton.
The exhibition features work by Trenton-area students through this YA Project, The Lawrenceville School and HomeFront.
Featured photographers include Akeeta Harris, Tammara Harris, Angel Conde, Iyandra Wright, Nicholas Hazell, Mikel Sharp, Danielle Rhodes, Francheska Cruz-Millette and Jorge Conde.
Fine art photographer, William Vandever, shares his skills in a multi-week intensive each year. The artwork, which includes photographs of the young photographers, is exhibited at an array of sites in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.
The students are given cameras to keep. Through out the project, they learn to compose images and to work on their photographs electronically. Participants are taken to sites unusual to their experience, such as Grounds for Sculpture.
Photographers carry on the artistic legacy of Ennis Beley, a gifted African-American photographer, gunned down in Los Angeles gang violence before his 15th birthday.
The Olivia Rainbow Student Gallery is named in memory of young Olivia Kuenne, who, cherished both nature and art.
Support for this seminal program comes through Piper Sutton Foundation, the Prudential Foundation, Kickstarter contributors and a broad array of individuals.
Young Audiences New Jersey & Pennsylvania is the first arts education organization designated as a major service organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Projects like this and the 4,000 programs provided annually by Young Audiences are made possible in part through a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State and Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Additional funds come from the National Endowment for the Arts, foundations, corporations and generous individuals.
More information is online at yanj-yaep.org or drgreenway.org.
