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Ms. Clark-Herrera founded and leads the Mural Music & Arts Project (MMAP). MMAP educates, empowers, and inspires at-risk youth through participation in the arts, and offers year-round youth development programs in the communities of East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City, and launched a pilot program in San Francisco in 2008. To date, MMAP has served over 500 youth, creating 48 murals and producing original Hip Hop songs, written, recorded, and performed by youth.
Mentoring and teaching in after school and community based programs, including her own, and researching in the field of youth development, Ms. Clark-Herrera has dedicated herself to the positive development of traditionally disadvantaged youth through the arts. With a particular emphasis on public art as a form of cultural empowerment and catalyst for social development and political activism, she has studied different pedagogical approaches to art and art history for over a decade.
Prior to founding the MMAP, Ms. Clark-Herrera partnered with her best friend, Denise Roberson, to found a successful consulting business, Jadi Art, Concept & Creation, partnering emerging artists with a variety of institutional and corporate clients in the production of tailored visual art, multimedia and sculpture installations in New York and southern California. She has also managed and collaborated on several public art projects in New York, Pennsylvania and California, including the largest outdoor mural commissioned by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, "Lo Que Nos Hace Falta" (300' x 60'), completed in 2001.
Ms. Clark-Herrera earned her B.A. in Social Science and B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine, her M.A. in Anthropology from Columbia University.
A native of Oakland and a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Laura Nagle has sketched and painted her whole life. She uses her art acumen to discuss complex issues relating to youth and identity. Her recent work can be seen at Overfelt HS in San Jose where she worked with MMAP to partner with Overfelt students to design and install a youth driven mural about culture.
Eva graduated with a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Psychology at Stanford University. Eva is now employed at Adify and lives in San Francisco. Her favorite things to do include: visiting the SF MOMA, running around outside, and reading blogs.
Alex Frank graduated from Stanford University in 2008 and works for an E-commerce firm in San Francisco. He loves the Roots and Fruits concept and was happy to share his artistic skills. Thanks to Mandy for helping him with the Loteria Project, and to MMAP for allowing him to contribute to their amazing program.
Kelleen Sullivan interlaces classic and contemporary techniques into extraordinary forms with her dynamic imagery and concepts reflecting the golden mean, transition, free will and the shared sensibilities of the mind. Kelleen Sullivan studied art at the International Academy of Art in Nice, France, and at the Brea Art Academy in Milan, Italy. She completed her formal studies at the University of California, Davis. Kelleen maintains a studio in the Napa Valley.
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Rachel McIntire is the Art Department Chair at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco and Co Founder and Co Director of Break Arts: International Art and Education Collaborative. Rachel's interest in education stems from her work as a teacher-organizer, administrator, and researcher in various arts-based community development spaces including schools, community centers, juvenile detention centers, public spaces, and youth arts organizations. These experiences have informed her research on the ways in which young people develop critical and creative thinking skills in and through the arts. Internationally, Rachel has founded NIDO, an interdisciplinary community based residency in rural Honduras. She also works has worked with community organizations in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Spain and Korea exploring, issues related to migration and transmigration with youth and their communities.
Caleb Duarte was born in 1977 and migrated from Mexico to the Central Valley in California. His work has been featured on Spark, KQED, Art ltd., and The Los Angeles Times. Duarte works and lives in Oakland, CA and is currently finishing his MFA at the Chicago Art Institute
Since his graduation from the SF Art Institute in 2002, Caleb Duarte has chosen mixed media installations as his art form. The themes of architecture, shelter and/or home have been central to his work. His travels around the world are often his inspiration for exploring the social inequalities and the realities of globalization.
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