Paint Your Future
A Visual Arts Based Youth Development Program
By
Brant Kingman

Introduction
Paint Your Future is an interdisciplinary visual arts education program invented by artist Brant Kingman. The program outlines a method and provides the structure by which children can use their inherent natural creativity and energy to finance their own higher education. The following is a one-paragraph explanation of how Paint Your Future works.

One Paragraph Description
Paint Your Future creates a structure that can be run within or over existing educational programs, where young children make artworks. Their work is displayed and judged on the Paint Your Future web site and/or in the educational setting. Adolescent or corporate adult students, under the supervision of a trained art teacher, transpose award-winning works onto large canvasses. The large canvasses are sold to corporations. Profits from the sales are invested in an investment fund that will provide scholarships for continuing education to program participants. Each of those participants becomes a shareholder in the enterprise. The business of the enterprise is also open to examination and participation as a part of the education.

Author, Brant Kingman
The author of Paint Your Future, Brant Kingman, was a principal of a private investment banking firm. He is a sculptor and painter and is the founder of Guruwari.com, an internet arts and entertainment media development company. Kingman invented and tested Paint Your Future when asked to unite four separate campuses grades K through 12 of The Blake Schools (a private day school in Minneapolis) where he served as an artist in residence.

Museum Exposure
Kingman envisions Paint Your Future on a national and international scale. An exhibit of paintings similar to those that could be produced by Paint Your Future is currently being considered for inclusion in the catalog of a U.S. museum tour packaging company. If the program were accepted, it would begin an indefinite tour of U.S. museums beginning no earlier than the fall of 2001.

Museums currently expend great effort to include exhibits that encourage visits from children in their schedule. Museums that purchase Paint Your Future will receive the exhibit of already created art works and will host a workshop wherein members of the community may receive training in what they need to do to successfully participate in the program. These workshops would also supply the exhibit with new material for display and possible sale.

Curriculum Development
Andrew Halper of Hip Deep Productions will develop the curriculum for Paint Your Future. It will be available through the web site and through workshops attached to the museum exhibits.

Investment Services
When the paintings are sold, net proceeds of the sale are deposited in an endowment fund. Betsy Ingalls an investment advisor for the securities firm of Dain Rauscher will act as the fund’s advisor. Participants in the program may apply to the fund for continuing education support when they choose to continue their education after high school.

Internet Presence
A Minneapolis based youth development web site called Mighty Media Inc. has offered to provide the curriculum, and whatever other materials are deemed appropriate, on their web site. Mighty Media operates in the United States and 77 foreign countries. Mighty Media will put Paint Your Future in direct contact with an estimated 70,000 classrooms around the world.

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