To better extend the MoCP’s educational mission into the urban community that we serve, for the past ten years, the MoCP has hosted intensive after school photography programs in three Chicago high schools. This program cultivates Chicago teens as independent artists in programs led by teaching teams of working artists, enhanced by museum field trips and contact with MoCP staff and guest artists. Graduates of the Picture Me program have gone on to study art at numerous institutions including Columbia College Chicago; the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois.