upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Marta Sanchez
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2006 Art and Change Grant – $2,500
- Neighborhood: Mount Airy
- Change Partner: Carmen Pendelton
- Discipline: Visual Arts
- Social Change / Intent: Cultural Preservation
Marta will facilitate her Cascarones Por La Vida project, encouraging Latino youth, artists, and community members to participate in hand-painting Mexican confetti-filled eggs that will be sold in a silent auction to raise funds for families affected by HIV/AIDS. These funds will help young people in these families get counseling and take art therapy classes. Marta created this project as a way to educate different communities, especially the Latino community, about HIV/AIDS. Her own experience of losing an uncle to AIDS and then feeling her family’s silence and shame about his death, has inspired Marta to create an artistic platform for others to talk about their own experiences and to break the silence and stigma attached. Marta will also work with young people in Camden to document their experiences creating the cascarones through photography and poetry that will then be shared on public buses in Camden.
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