Our visual arts workshops provide young artists opportunities to work with professional artists to develop their visual arts skills, creative self-expression and critical thinking. Participants are challenged in a supportive environment to grow as individuals and also to practice teamwork as groups collaborate on large-scale public artworks. The Performance Project holds visual art residencies, bringing our creative and community building process to youth who are incarcerated and in residential treatment. Our visual arts program is a partnership between The Performance Project, Center for Human Development, and the Department of Youth Services.

Struggle, Journey, Freedom 2018 Tryptic
Stabilization and Detention, Westfield Youth Service Center, MA
Facilitating Artist, Julie Lichtenberg
Facilitator, James Arana

Mandala, 2015
Westfield Youth Service Center
Facilitating Artists, Rosa Ibarra and Julie Lichtenberg
Facilitator, James Arana

Big Hands, 2015
Created by students at the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School,
CHD’s Community Adolescent Treatment Program and First Generation
Facilitating Artist, Julie Lichtenberg

 
Justice, 2015
Main St and Wilcox ( South End), Springfield, MA
Facilitating Artist, Rosa Ibarra
Facilitator, Amina Jordan Mendez

Dwell in The Possibilities, 2014
232 Chestnut St, Springfield
Facilitating Artist, Andrae Green
Facilitator, Evelin Aquino

Healing, 2013
232 Chestnut St, Springfield MA
Facilitating Artist, Andrae Green
Facilitator, Evelin Aquino

Unity, 2012
Taylor St, Springfield, MA
Facilitating Artist, Kamil Peters
Facilitators, James Arana and Julie Lichtenberg

What Makes a Man, 2011
570 Main St (South End) Springfield, MA
Facilitating Artist, Porn Siphanoum
Facilitators, James Arana and Julie Lichtenberg

Mural, 2010
160 High St, Springfield, MA
Facilitating Artists Carla Wojczuk and Julie Lichtenberg