WE ENDURE, WE ADAPT, WE LEAD
In partnership with the San Francisco Department of Children Youth and Families, Edutainment for Equity launched a data visualization project aimed at making data from the 2024 SFUSD Community Needs Assessment Report accessible, and actionable in the city. This involved commissioning artists, installing an exhibition, and providing tools for DCYF grantees and others to contextualize the state of now for youth and families in San Francisco. The project has several features: A live mobile exhibition, 11 dynamic visualizations that are enhanced with augmented reality, a printable and downloadable digital magazine, and design sprint workshops aimed to move organizations addressing this data from analysis and into action. See more below.
ENDURE MAGAZINE
This magazine provides statistical information, visualizations printed in poster form, and information about the background of the project. Each illustration is a portal to an augmented reality experience that deepens the dynamic impact of the art. We encourage you to print the posters and hang them on the wall at your institution, or use them to provoke deeper conversation about the state of youth and families in San Francisco. We can do better because we must. In this city anything is possible.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Vero Orozco
Born with a disability and raised in a Nicaraguan immigrant family in San Francisco, I struggled to see myself represented. In my twenties, a mural of someone with a missing limb inspired me to find my place in society. Art became my outlet, evolving into drawing, screen printing, and painting. Passionate about supporting marginalized communities, I create work celebrating those outside society's norms. With a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, a Master's from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and over a decade in the nonprofit sector, I tell stories through my art, centering underrepresented voices.
Working in nonprofits supporting youth programs, I see the profound impact of each drawing on local families. As a San Francisco native, I sadly know families personally affected by every data point represented. The city, often hailed for its wealth and innovation, hides diverse demographics and struggles beneath its gleaming surface. Lower and middle-class lives intertwine with the affluent, proving San Francisco is more than a tech hub; it's a place where children grow and families seek to thrive. What does San Francisco look like when we consider the everyday person living among the privileged?
Damien McDuffie (Black Terminus AR)
Damien McDuffie is a creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist and developer from Oakland. He is the founder of Black Terminus AR, a camera app and augmented reality art studio in your pocket that helps bring archives to life. His mission is to keep redlining out of the metaverse by developing and inspiring the next generation of Black creative technologists to use culture & art as a way into creative tech.
Damien has an MFA from Columbia University, and is an alumni Black Public Media Fellow at the Massachusets Institute of Technology.
Obasi Davis (Exhibition Designer and Creative Consultant)
Obasi Davis is the designer of the We Endure, We Adapt, We Lead Exhibition. He is an emerging multi hyphenate artist from Oakland whose work has him consulting brands across the country, He holds a BA in Fashion Design from the University of Wisconsin at Madison after receiving a full Scholarship to attend First Wave, the only fully funded Hip Hop Arts Cohort in any university in the country. Obasi is currently a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.