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| “The Gray and Purple” by Taylor Cook, 16, from Atlanta Taylor Cook |
Dear Reader,
What can you show or tell us to help explain what it’s like to grow up in this political moment?
That’s the overarching question we put to teenagers last fall, during a year of pivotal elections around the globe. First we broke it down via a series of informal conversation forums that posed additional questions — about their political identities and values, the issues that matter to them, today’s information environment and their news habits, as well as how they talk about politics across divides. Those forums garnered over 5,500 comments from teenagers around the world.
Next, we challenged them to make something in response. As long as they somehow addressed one or more of the questions we posed in the forums, submissions could take the form of writing, art, audio or video.
Now, as a new administration takes office in the United States, we’re publishing a collection of the best work from the 1,600-plus entries we received from all over the country, as well as from Europe and Asia.
We hope you’ll take some time with this collection and note both what resonates with your own experience and what shows you something new. Then, we hope you’ll tell these young artists what you think by posting a comment to our special related forum, here.
Sincerely,
The Learning Network
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