Program Dates: July 14 – August 6, 2014
Final Project Dates: August 6 – 16, 2014

Lead Artists: Mission Voices Summer Students
Lead Teaching Artists: Dana Dart-McLean, Chris Fiorentini, Adrienne Skye Roberts
Teaching Artist Assistants: Victoria Ayala, Ethan Rafal, Amanda Simons
Teaching Artist Interns: Maeve FitzHoward, Lizzy Myers
Youth Leaders: Ericka Bato, Lori Bato, Marcus Robinson
MVS Intern: Chanel Teffeteller
AIE Intern: Summer Hirtzel
AIE Program Director: Dave Sandoval

Southern Exposure's Mission Voices Summer (MVS) is an arts program that gives youth the opportunity to exercise leadership skills in their community by exploring relevant social and personal issues through visual arts workshops. The intensive summer program focuses on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with teens. Youth learn to use the visual arts as a tool to express their creative voices and to make a visual statement about their ideas, interests, and ambitions through a series of workshops that result in a project presented to the public.