Taller Lumpen is a collective of street artists and activists who use art and urban space design as tools for social change, popular education, and socialization of resources to combat the growing inequality in the Barrio Pueblo neighborhood of Mayagüez, PR.
The Own Our Power Fund (2023-2025) is providing a two-year grant to support a participatory research process with the children and youth of Mayagüez in order to co-create educational programs for the children and youth who are currently not enrolled in schools. The Participatory Action Research project will also gather and distribute research from children and youth in Mayagüez about how public space should be reclaimed in order to encourage youth engagement in public life and to combat encroaching gentrification and privatization of public space and resources.
