AMT Youth Programme: Empowering Young Black Creatives
The AMT Youth Programme team, the AMT 2022 cohort at sponsor, RenRe’s City of London office for the Black Futures art exhibition
Client: RenaissanceRe and AMT Youth Programme
Partners: Leading reinsurer RenRe sponsor AMT Youth Programme and together we partnered to support young Black people bring their full selves to the workplace
Audience: 18, 16 - 19 year olds from South East London
Commissioned to: Guide young Black creatives to make art and become art entrepreneurs through several workshops
Wellbeing and Entrepreneurial Art Programme
Future Self Portrait art workshop
Workshop programme:
Meditation - To relax and prime their imagination.
Future Self Biography exercise - I shared a worksheet with prompts to help the young people express how their ambitions for the future and steps to work towards their goal.
Collage art techniques – I demonstrated my collage techniques
Art making - I empowered the young people to develop their own visual language
Reflection and close - An important opportunity to hear from the young people articulate their vision and support each others dreams.
Entrepreneurial art workshop
I presented the following topics:
My journey from employee to an art wellbeing facilitator.
Communicating with authenticity and gain trust from art collectors.
Producing prints and merchandise for multiple revenue streams.
Q&A
Future Self Art exhibition launch hosted by RenaissanceRe
Curatorial and exhibitioner duties:
Editing all of the artists’ Future Self Portrait statements to accompany their artwork.
Writing the exhibition curatorial statement.
Delivering the AMT Youth Programme video presentation.
Exhibition of my print Afro Aura
Testimonials
“Just reminiscing on this lovely experience I had with the amazing Birungi Kawooya as part of the Alice made this Young programme directed by Alice Walsh and Inez Murphy. I have since made a series of collages that echo praise of Black culture and I look forward to what else I can be inspired!”
“Thank you once again for hosting the brilliant workshop in Peckham – both Harriet and I were so impressed and inspired by both your team (Alice, Inez and Birungi) and the young creatives themselves…. The [exhibition] launch night went really well. Your video was very well received! My colleagues very much enjoyed the whole event and I think it was particularly great for the young creatives themselves.”
“[The exhibition launch night] was a wonderful evening and a really lovely combination of corporates who loved the fact they were funding young creatives, and the creatives enjoying networking with them. We missed you of course but it was SO COOL to say ‘she’s in Uganda doing an amazing residency funded by the Arts Council’ too ❤️
A room full of “half glass full” people who enjoyed art and promoting change ⚡”
““You are young, gifted and black”
We must begin to tell our young
There’s a world waiting for you
Yours is the quest that’s just begun.”