April 26, 2025
1:00pm-5:00pm

Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center

525 Kumquat Ct, Sarasota, FL 34236

Join us for NextGen Creators, an interactive gathering designed to nurture youth development and foster intergenerational connections through the arts. As part of Mosaic Movements' Creative Nexus initiative and Suncoast Remake Learning Days, this immersive event invites young artists ages 13-24 and their families to engage in hands-on workshops led by professional artists, explore creative career pathways, and connect across artistic disciplines. In partnership with WSLR+Fogartyville and Emerge Sarasota, the day will culminate in a Youth Performance Showcase, celebrating artistic growth, collaboration, and innovation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to create, network, and ignite your passion!

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Event Schedule

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Saturday, April 26, 2025

• 1:00 - 1:25 PM | Welcome & Icebreaker 

• 1:30 - 2:30 PM | Workshop Session 1

  1. Rhythm and Rhyme with artist Karim Manning

     • Students will learn the basics of Rhythm and how to count, move, and speak to a steady beat, by participating through different games and activities. They will then write and perform their own written lyrics over a beat.

  2. Cuttin Up: Textiles and Technology Workshop with artists Jevon Brown and Amaya Glover

     • Participants will rotate between two creative stations. With Jevon Brown, they’ll explore textile art inspired by barbershop culture and community, creating woven pieces using paper and fabric. At Amaya Glover’s Sound Station, they’ll experiment with interactive tech using the Playtronica MIDI controller to turn everyday objects into instruments and produce original beats.

  3. Future Visions: Dreaming in Color, Drawing Beyond Now with artist Osa Atoe

     • What do you think the future looks like—and how can art help us shape it? In this hands-on, youth-centered workshop, we'll explore how artists have imagined futures rooted in freedom, transformation, and Black imagination. From historical visionaries to contemporary Afrofuturist creators, we'll look at how art can serve as a powerful tool for change and dreaming.

  4. Act Like You Mean It: An Improvisation Workshop with Maria Schaedler-Luera

     • This 60-minute workshop invites youth to step into the present and claim their role as the protagonist of their own story. Through fast-paced improv games, movement, and playful reflection, participants will build self-awareness, confidence, and creative courage. Inspired by Theatre of the Oppressed and short-form improv, this session is all about saying yes to who you are—right here, right now.

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• 2:30 - 2:40 PM | Snack Break & Networking

• 2:45 - 3:45 PM | Workshop Session 2

  • Rhythm and Rhyme with artist Karim Manning

    • Students will learn the basics of Rhythm and how to count, move, and speak to a steady beat, by participating through different games and activities. They will then write and perform their own written lyrics over a beat.

  • Cuttin Up: Textiles and Technology Workshop with artists Jevon Brown and Amaya Glover

    • Participants will rotate between two creative stations. With Jevon Brown, they’ll explore textile art inspired by barbershop culture and community, creating woven pieces using paper and fabric. At Amaya Glover’s Sound Station, they’ll experiment with interactive tech using the Playtronica MIDI controller to turn everyday objects into instruments and produce original beats.

  • Future Visions: Dreaming in Color, Drawing Beyond Now with artist Osa Atoe

    • What do you think the future looks like—and how can art help us shape it? In this hands-on, youth-centered workshop, we'll explore how artists have imagined futures rooted in freedom, transformation, and Black imagination. From historical visionaries to contemporary Afrofuturist creators, we'll look at how art can serve as a powerful tool for change and dreaming.

  • Poetry in Motion with artist Sun, Love, Peace

    • This 60-minute workshop invites youth to step into the present and claim their role as the protagonist of their own story. Through fast-paced improv games, movement, and playful reflection, participants will build self-awareness, confidence, and creative courage. Inspired by Theatre of the Oppressed and short-form improv, this session is all about saying yes to who you are—right here, right now.

• 3:50 - 4:30 PM | Youth Performances & Showcase 

• 4:30 - 5:00 PM | Closing & Celebration  

Meet the Artists

Karim Manning​

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As a self-taught Emcee, Producer, Human Beatboxer, DJ Karim has provided a space for expression and acceptance through the love of Hip-Hop music from 2017-2022. In 2021 he started teaching workshops on “Rhythm and Rhyme Across the Curriculum” in public classrooms working with elementary to middle school kids. He is currently a teaching artist working with Pre-K to Middle school-aged students teaching music-based workshops, through the performing arts foundation as well as through the USF REACH grant.

Jevon Brown​

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Jevon Brown, a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist, holds a BFA in Textiles from RISD. His work, rooted in his Bahamian, Jamaican, and Black Southern heritage, explores identity, community, and belonging. Brown crafts immersive spaces that intertwine sensation, memory, and untold histories, focusing on Black masculine kindred spaces. Utilizing textiles, fashion, painting, and photography, he recontextualizes cultural icons, weaving narratives of his diasporas.

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Artist Website: https://jevonbrown.art/

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Amaya C. Glover

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Amaya C. Glover, a Sarasota and Tennessee based Audio Engineer, holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Audio Production from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). She combines her experiences working as a sound technician at West Coast Black Theatre Troupe, an Assistant Engineer at Drummerboy Entertainment & Recording Studios, her education at MTSU, and her current audio visual engineering position with Tequila Cowboy Restaurant Group to provide stellar high quality audio visual experiences. Using this experience and knowledge she started her Audio Visual Production Company, ACG Productions LLC in February of 2024. 

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Maria Schaedler-Luera

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Maria Schaedler-Luera is a Brazilian-born teaching artist, facilitator, and co-founder of Atomica Arts. With roots in Theatre of the Oppressed and a deep commitment to mindfulness and holistic education, Maria blends improv, movement, and cross-cultural dialogue to support participants in stepping into their power. Her work centers on self-awareness, creative expression, mental health, and the belief that everyone can be the protagonist of their own story.

Artist Website: https://about.me/schaedlerluera

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Osa Atoe

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​Osa Atoe is a Nigerian American studio potter living in Sarasota, FL who uses her work to honor nature and the heritage of African ceramics, and as tools to promote social and environmental justice. Her business, Pottery by Osa, grew out of her kitchen in New Orleans in 2015 and has since expanded to a full-sized studio. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, and she’d been involved in activist groups for many years, but her passion was music. She played in various punk bands for 15 years, touring all over the US and Europe. Aside from music, she wrote a zine (turned book) about Black punks & outsider artists called Shotgun Seamstress. Atoe took her first pottery class at age 34. A few years later, she completed a year-long post-baccalaureate program for ceramics at Louisiana State University and has pursued various alternative learning opportunities since. She encourages others in their path to ceramics by leading Kaabo Clay, a community for Black potters.

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Sun Love Peace

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Michelle Walker also known as Sun Love Peace, originally from Windsor, CT.  She is a dancer, dance teacher, inspirational leader, choreographer, spoken word artist, motivation/inspiration facilitator, and empowerment coach with over 25 years of experience in inspirational movement, dance and empowerment coaching.

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Sun Love Peace has a mission and vision to heal the world one dance at a time. With her diversified portfolio, she infuses her talents and gifts to create enriching programming that bring forth spirit filled, soul anchored and non-technical movement experiences that articulate inspiration for people from all walks of life. 

Having overcome her own trauma, Sun Love Peace uses her survival stories and lessons learned to create customized experiences to help others See Their Best Selves.

Her favorite motto:  Lets Heal Together.​