Mixed Media • The AFH Quarterly

December 2024

We’re thrilled to share the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter as we reflect on an incredible year of meaningful partnerships, creative projects, and impactful programming. In this issue, we highlight a pioneering collaboration with CityLab Innovation High School and MassArt, celebrate our enduring partnership with BXP, and showcase the successful completion of the second year of the AFH Artists Fellowship. Here’s to spreading the good word as we set our sights on an inspiring 2025!

Early College, Early Wins

The average teenager is busy being a teenager—navigating the whirlwind of friendships, fun, challenges, self-discovery, and, of course, learning to eventually graduate high school. So it is remarkable for students at CityLab Innovation High School to be fully engaged in earning college credit at the same time, and even more unusual, in the arts. This is a story about a visionary high school and what happens when two pioneering organizations join in partnership to build equity for Boston's youth.

Shared Purpose

It's that time of year when BXP, the largest publicly traded developer, owner, and manager of premier workplaces in the U.S., commissions us to design and build a celebratory Hanukkah piece for Pru Boston. This December, as part of Pru's digital gallery shown across a series of kiosks throughout its enclosed shopping mall in Boston's Back Bay, AFH Teen Artist Quan Le's creative photography is featured, documenting the AFH-designed sculpture B'Yachad. It's a double win!

Voice, Vision, and Collaboration in a Digital Age

The 2024 AFH Fellowship empowered AFH alumni and local artists to innovate and refine their voice in this ever changing digital world. It offered a collaborative environment that encouraged bold ideas, and inspired both personal and professional growth. Over a period of nine-months, five artists—Audrey Calhoun, Victoria “Tori” DelValle, Dubem Okafor, Taijai Slaughter and Ananda Toulon—set out to share their artistic voices and grow their careers through content creation and digital storytelling, culminating in Password***** — Access Granted. 

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