The Teen Council is a select group of young creatives from metro Detroit that come together to empower local youth and to provide safe space for other teens to have fun and explore the arts. With the help of museum professionals, these teens come together to plan and produce programming for youth and adults.
The Council explores the proposition that teens can collaboratively contextualize the making, understanding, and valuing of art within larger cultural frameworks of community, identity, agency, and teamwork to build strong communities. The democratic process develops skill sets that translate into meaningful careers later in life, whether that career is creative field or elsewhere.