Selecting our logo for Kids.Think.Art has been a long time coming.
I started Kids.Think.Art in October 2020 as a bandaid for racial divides I saw in the art world. At the beginning of this adventure, I gathered my kids’ friends to see, think, and wonder about art by and with people of color. I had just graduated from the 2019 Gallery Instructor program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an innovative program that trained educators and art lovers to give art tours to K-12 students.
The pandemic forced museums and other places of culture to close doors in March 2020, a few weeks before I was supposed to start giving tours. The pause was supposed to last only a few weeks, then only a few months. More than 2 years into the pandemic, there is a deep understanding that nothing will be like it was before. During that time, a project that started as a band aid solution transformed into the organization I called Kids.Think. Art.
I wanted the name to convey that our programs were about more than art. In our programs, I don’t teach you how to draw. There are countless people who can teach drawing way better than I do. In our programs, I don’t teach adults. There are countless classes for adults to learn about art. What I do though is to center the conversation on the kids’ approach to art and how their various cultural backgrounds change how they see and appreciate art. During a session on the portrait John, 1st Baron Byron by Kehindey Whiley, one of the participants mentioned that the person at the center of the artwork looked like her uncle. This is in part what I live for with Kids. Think. Art : breaking down barriers between kids and the art pieces on the wall. While the name Kids. Think. Art conveys what we do, the logo conveys what we want to be. A place where kids feel like they belong and that art is as much for them than for anybody else. After several iterations, our logo and tagline was complete. Kids.Think. Art, where belonging meets art.
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