The Corner Art Center provides youth with a consistent safe space where they can come with projects and ideas and receive assistance from peer and artist mentors. Co-op Image serves as a creative incubator, allowing youth to explore their individual artistic interests, and implement their own ideas and projects.
Community Murals

Co-op Image’s mural projects offer opportunities for local artists to collaborate with communities to express their voices within their own public space. In each project, public artworks are created in a close working dialogue among youth, residents, and artists dedicated to working with local businesses and the community.

Co-op Image’s mural projects offer opportunities for local artists to collaborate with communities to express their voices within their own public space. In each project, public artworks are created in a close working dialogue among youth, residents, and artists dedicated to working with local businesses and the community.

The founding initiative of Cooperative Image Group, Post Our Bills utilizes abandoned buildings as opportunities to brighten communities by transforming plywood window coverings into public murals. Youth artists create their own images and learn to implement them through silk-screen techniques and stencil production. Young artists develop through peer-mentorship: working together with more experienced high-school-age printmakers, and led by professional artists. As the printed boards beautify vacant buildings across the city, youth and community gain a voice in the appearance of their neighborhoods.

Teacher/Apprentice-In-Service: Building from the model established through in-school collaborations with ACT Charter Schools, Little Village High School, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Co-op Image has developed several Teacher/Apprentice-in-Service programs at area schools. This initiative enables teachers and students to explore new approaches in contemporary art production.

In 2005 Co-op Image partnered with organizations such as the Chicago Housing Authority, ACT Charter School to create youth-run video documentary's on topics ranging from food and nutrition to a historically black college tour

In the Nutrition Video Documentary, ten youth apprentices who are Chicago Housing Authority residents learn research and interviewing techniques and utilize them to create an in depth comparative survey of how food and nutrition influence their lives and communities. The apprentices also gain hands –on experience with up-to-date video production techniques, putting them to use editing a concrete video presentation of the documentary’s findings.