Juxtaposition Arts, Inc

Rooted in North Minneapolis we have worked for sixteen years to engage our community’s greatest
untapped Resource – an abundant population of youth -- as the foundation and catalyst for accomplishing individual success and more equitable community-wide outcomes. We value youth as dynamic creative problem solvers whose exuberance and artistic genius must be engaged if we are to accomplish sustainable equitable development in our community.

Two years ago we launched JXTALab a full service youth staffed design center. Our first project was a 41 page full color brochure for a national convention held in down town Minneapolis. Since that first project our youth have designed and built a “Pocket park” on Emerson Avenue, several large scale murals throughout North Minneapolis, and been engaged in other neighborhood beautification projects.

JuxtaLab will employ and train up to 10% of the youth in North Minneapolis per year in our drawing & painting, graphic design, environmental design, and textile design studios. Through this relevant hands on creative work young artists will be prepared to enter college, start their own businesses, or be employed as designers, illustrators, architects in a blossoming 21st Century creative economy.

By combining art and design education with a social entrepreneurial business model, we support the advancement of youth and the revitalization of places. Investments from individuals like you supported our hiring over 50 youth apprentices into
the JuxtaLab program over the last two years.