Center for Teen Empowerment

The mission of The Center of Teen Empowerment is to empower youth and adults as agents of positive individual, institutional, and social change. Teen Empowerment (TE) hires a group of youth, ages 14-21, and trains them as community organizers, providing them with the support, resources, and ongoing training they need to organize initiatives that involve both youth and adults in addressing community issues. They strive to be a place where youth, working with adults in mutually respectful and supportive relationships, can use their voices creatively to inspire, lead, and empower each other to achieve justice and peace. We are placing art at the Dorchester site and Teen Empowerment also has sites in Roxbury, Somerville and in Rochester, NY.  In Dorchester TE’s space is also home to B4Records, an initiative geared to service the community by empowering their talents through positive progressive music. Donated artwork hangs in the recording studio, main programming space and hallways, and in the counseling room.

Visit www.teenempowerment.org to learn more

Fadumo @ Artists For Humanity, Self Portrait, Acrylic on panel, 2009, 12"x12" 

Nicole Agee-Oflus, Radiant, Acrylic on canvas paper, 2014, 16"x12"

 Elaine Alibrandi, Screams, Oil and aluminum foil on slit canvas, 2013, 40"x30"

David Barnes, Tuesday, Color photographic print, 2012, 16"x20"

 

 

Melanie Maz, Swing, Acrylic on canvas, 2012, 18"x24"

Robert Scott, Fire Escape, Digital photograph, 2010, 13"x11" 

Judith Silverstein, RB&W, Acrylic/canvas, 22"x28"

Katherine Vetne, Seed Strands , Engraving (Proof Print #1), 2011, 8"x12"

Katherine Vetne, Seed Strands, Engraving (Proof Print #2), 2011, 8"x12"

Katherine Vetne, Seed Strands, Engraving (Proof Print #3), 2011, 8"x12"