Completed Projects

• Out on Fire

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Out on Fire (ages 14-18)

What inflames you? What are you fired up about? What makes you red with rage? In this project, we help gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens discover and represent what they're most excited about. In a safe space at the New York Gay & Lesbian Center, kids are paired with adult creative mentors. Sponsored by a generous grant from The Stonewall Foundation's Billy Heekin Art Fund.

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• What's Fair, What's Just, What's the Difference

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"It's not fair!" Every parent has heard this charge. Using kids' innate sense of justice, What's Fair, What's Just, What's the Difference? provided an in-depth exploration of fairness, justice, and law. Working together with Susan Sarandon and the CityArts Kids for Justice Project, The Gorilla Press helped 35 middle school children at the Simon Baruch School in New York to learn about our justice system. In tandem with teachers, judges, and artists, the kids explored concepts such as equality, violence, prejudice and bias, and freedom of speech. In paint and print, they explored their own experiences with injustice, and connected these personal experiences to the great ethical questions of our time. The project culminated in What's Fair, What's Just, What's the Difference?: a permanent living document of their voices, images, questions, and dreams. Over 450 books have been distributed in New York schools.

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• Going Places

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Where have you been? Where do you want to go? What imaginary world would you like to create? In Going Places, The Gorilla Press teamed up children from a Bronx parochial school with adult creative mentors from Makor, a New York Jewish cultural center. Using the idea of travel as a source, the kids shared where they'd been, and imagined new places they'd like to go. Through poetry, storytelling, sculpture, cartooning, and collage, the kids represented the worlds they've been to and the worlds they will one day explore. The project culminated in the creation of individual accordion books in which each child told a story about a place he or she went to (real or imaginary) and what happened there.

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