Definitely Superior Art Gallery’s “FUTURE YOUNG ARTISTS” youth mentorship arts education project 2009:

Ongoing throughout the year, this project is aimed at mentoring and supporting future young artists while creating a unique and contemporary alternative publication. Its purpose is to mentor young artists on the artist-run model of working as a collective by encouraging them to bring a practical collective project into fruition. The project will involve outreach to youth ages 16-25, the formation of a collective, workshops and mentorship, creation of a zine, and sustainable youth involvement in the future years of DefSup. All parts of the project will be guided by the gallery and the end result will be a multi-media package including a zine, handmade buttons, a mono-print, and a C.D of local youth bands. Together they form a low-tech publishing network of extraordinary richness and variety.

The Zine project fills a gap in publishing in terms of art education and youth/community involvement. This is a new initiative for young artists who show aptitude and initiative to be future leaders in the arts. The Zine concentrates on art as its focus, however, topics cover a broad range including: contemporary-traditional to experimental writing (poetry and short prose), politics, art and design, comics/graphic arts, ephemera, personal journals, social theory, single topic obsession; content far enough outside of the main stream to be prohibitive of inclusion in more traditional media. Welcome to the realm of zines.

Email loradefsup@hotmail.com to JOIN