If youth and artists of color have access and exposure to wide-ranging forms of creativity and consistent mentorship and guidance via high-quality arts programs, they will develop the skills and confidence to pursue opportunities to both self-actualize and contribute to social progress. This then leads to a proof-of-concept for authentic, nurturing creative spaces in which youth and artists of color can build their technical art skills, collaborative capacity, and societal awareness while creating a future that changes human society from  one that is perpetually trying to stop / change bad things to actively building / living in a more harmonious existence with each other, technology, and nature. This results in long term outcomes of reshaping and creating more humanized social systems through strengthened individual foundations based on creativity, conversation, and collaboration. Our program goals include: engaging Lawrence youth with creative social, civic, and leadership-based programming; strengthening the public education system from the outside in, with grassroots, community-based, youth centered learning opportunities; and building social justice principles of equity, access, participation, and intrinsic human rights into everyday experiences of young creatives