GROWHOUSE

BLACK HISTORY + HERITAGE CORRIDOR

Annoucing our 2025 Youth Design Challenge !!

Annoucing our 2025 Youth Design Challenge !!

Youth Design Competition

Are you a young artist or designer aged 15-24 living in Brooklyn? Do you want to showcase your creativity, connect with professional artists and designers, and compete for a $1,000 cash prize?

Here’s an opportunity for emerging creatives to make an impact through design while gaining mentorship and professional exposure.

How It Works:

✔ Step 1: Apply – Submit your initial application by March 25, 2025.
✔ Step 2: Selection Process – A panel of judges will review submissions and select finalists.
✔ Step 3: Orientation & Workshops – If selected, you’ll take part in an orientation, mentorship sessions, and creative workshops.
✔ Step 4: Design & Development – Work with mentors to refine your design for final submission.
✔ Step 5: Showcase & Awards – Present your work at our final exhibition and compete for the cash prize!

What’s in It for You?

✨ $1,000 Cash Prize for selected winners
🤝 Mentorship with professional artists and designers
🖼️ Showcase Your Work in a public exhibition and on signs throughout Brooklyn
📢 Be Featured on GrowHouse NYC’s platforms

Ready to Apply?

🔗 Click here to submit your application!

📩 Questions? Email us at shanna@growhousenyc.org

Don’t miss this chance to level up your artistry, build your portfolio, and connect with Brooklyn’s creative community!

The Corridor transcends mere preservation—the goal is to actively weave a cultural, ecological, and economic ecosystem that will connect Black historic sites like the Flatbush African Burial Ground, Lefferts House, and Weeksville to each other and to contemporary Black-owned businesses using signs, heritage plantings, collaboration, and storytelling.

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Based in Central Brooklyn, GrowHouse Design + Development Group is a community design and development cooperative that uses the linkages between travel + education, entrepreneurship + healing, art + technology to empower Black people and our allies to design safe, brave, and flourishing communities.

Our vision is for Black communities to be sovereign, connected, and thriving. To make this vision a reality, we help communities to cooperatively organize, design, finance, purchase, occupy and steward real estate, cultural institutions and production, and other forms of wealth.