Local Youth-Serving Non-Profit FutureSelf Joins the Business Community Downtown
FutureSelf, a local non-profit serving youth, ages 12 to 24 through arts education, career-readiness and micro-enterprise has moved behind the Colorado Springs Independent at 214 E. Vermijo Ave. In our new location we will provide art workshops, training and open studio for young people after-school and on the weekends, while offering the wider community opportunities to view and purchase exhibited work or commission artists for specific creative projects.
We are introducing ourselves to our downtown neighbors and the rest of the Pikes Peak region with an open house on Saturday, April 24 from 1 to 5 pm and 7 to 10 pm. During the day we will welcome guests with beverages, picnic-type food, furniture, birdhouses, youth art, garden art, film screenings and other
surprises. The evening will bring more of the same, along with the blues stylings of local artist-extraordinaire Grant Sabin and special delectable treats from Coquette Creperie, other local restaurants and adult beverages provided by Bristol Brewery!
Since its first art workshop in 2000, FutureSelf has been providing the transformational power of the creative process to youth who may not have access to exploratory, safe risk-taking experiences, positive peer and adult mentoring or simply a place to belong. Although open to every young person 12 – 24 years of age, many of the youth FutureSelf works with are low-income youth from the Pikes Peak region. Our mission is to invite transformation through the arts. We believe that every young person has the capacity and desire to do well, and we use art to bring out this potential. Our tools are passion, talent and youthful vision. Our outcomes are motivated young people who are set on a path to post-secondary education, entrepreneurial ventures and future careers that positively contribute to the world around them.
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