Talking Back: Chicago Youth Respond

About the Exhibition

This annual exhibition, now in its fourteenth year, features works made by teens who participate in Picture Me, an afterschool photography program sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at three Chicago high schools: Curie Metropolitan High School, Juarez Community Academy, and Nicholas Senn High School. Co-taught by teams of working artists, this program, which serves approximately 90 students each year, cultivates teens as independent artists who gain a strong technical foundation as they work toward developing their own artistic vision and style through independent projects. Examining and discussing the work of professional artists is integral to the program and the curriculum is further enhanced by field trips to the MoCP and other cultural venues and contact with visiting artists.

Education programs at the MoCP are supported by After School Matters, the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.