Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Youme Landowne”It is brave to be involved/to be not fearful to be unresolved” –Gwendolyn Brooks Youme Landowne is an artist and activist for all ages. She has worked internationally as a visual artist and writer. Her work has taken her to Nairobi, Kenya, where she wrote and illustrated for Rainbow magazine; to Kyoto, Japan, where she worked as a graphic artist and a teacher of English as a second language; and to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, to collaborate with Timoun Lari, children of the streets, to paint murals and document their own stories through drawings and the written word. She has returned to New York after five years in San Francisco where she became a professional community muralist working with Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center. She began working with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in 1991 as an intern through Eugene Lang College at The New School for Social Research, where she earned a BA in education and creative writing. Her US illustration work includes Know Your Rights, an activist guide for girls published by Girls Inc.; Grow with Compost for the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens; and Heart in Hand, a series of cards published by Printedworks. A limited edition collection of her poems entitled Maembe Kuembeleza was published by x press in 1999. |
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