The Arts and Education Council (A&E) announced on May 29th The Makers Program and the Who Raised You? Listening Collective have been named winners in the 2018 stARTup Competition. A partnership between A&E and the PNC Foundation, the competition fosters innovative ideas for improving St. Louis through the arts. The winners will each receive $10,000 in prize money and one year of space and incubation support in A&E’s Centene Center for the Arts, as well as professional development, networking and mentorship opportunities.
Jia Lian and I are so excited to bring our project to fruition which has us teaching community podcasting workshops, creating CITIZEN SOUND AGENTS, and creating an archive of traditionally silenced voices from the St. Louis metropolitan region.