Teen Zine Launch! with Homer High School Fellows
FREE ADMISSION!
The PMA Teen Zine has launched! Pick up your copy in the Great Hall, chat with the authors, and join us for a gallery activity led by the Homer High School Fellows.
The Teen Council program brings together former Homer High School Fellows to create a PMA Teen Zine and to advice staff with a youth perspective on education, marketing, programming, and interpretive materials. The program aims to promote access, equity, and belonging at the museum while helping council members develop essential skills for careers in the arts and museum fields.
A zine is a handmade publication created to foster real-world relationships between readers and their cultural communities through the sharing of ideas, artistry, knowledge of third spaces, and the encouragement of reproduction for accessible communication and collaboration.
The Teen Council elected to lean into the DIY ethos of zines and titled the inaugural PMA Teen Zine: Ai Ain’t It! This issue interrogates the impacts of Ai on the environment, authorship, and teen creativity, while inspiring young people in Portland Maine to deepen their relationships to place, to themselves, and to each other.
Featured is an article, comic, gallery game, Portland art scene map, and a behind-the-scenes look at the Tidal Shift winners' art practices.
