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Marisa Pierce, Deep Center’s new Director of Youth Programs, has a hundred stories to tell. Born one-third of a set of triplets and raised right here i…
In July of 2022, Deep Center was named a Southern Cultural Treasure by the venerable Atlanta-based nonprofit South Arts. Deep is one of only 17 arts or…
Deep is proud to welcome new Research and Policy Analyst Dr. Desmond L. Kemp to Savannah and to the Deep family. Desmond has a PhD in American studies …
Welcome, welcome, welcome! It’s always exciting for us to have some new faces around the Deep office. Deep staff members are experts in their fields, a…
Educators in the Savannah community deserve trust. They deserve support, freedom, and access to resources. They deserve to play and explore. And they d…
When a young person needs to learn calculus, they go to high school. When a young person needs to learn how to change the world, they come to Deep Cent…
Deep Center’s beloved Young Author Project (YAP) positions creative writing workshops within the middle and high schools of the Savannah–Chatham County…
When the youth involved in the Deep Center’s writing programs were finally able to meet again after COVID, they needed time to process all that had hap…
“We are all family,” explained Jerome Davis, program coordinator of the Work Readiness Enrichment Program (WREP). “But sometimes families lose touch.” …
This statement is a youth-created and translated piece by Harrison Tran and Vivian Ortiz, members of Deep's Action Research Team. We grieve with the…
It's a Block Party Y'all! It's time for our summer block party! Join Deep Center as we celebrate the release of Block by Block's 2021-2022 anthol…
This piece is authored by youth on Deep Center’s Action Research Team: Harrison Tran, Bryah Gillison, Jalen Connor, Taniya Forrest, and Madeleine Pelli…
You’d think that by now, after 13 years of leading creative writing workshops in the public schools of Chatham County, Deep’s Young Author Project (YAP…
When the Telfair Museums drafted a list of potential contributors to its new “Legacy of Slavery in Savannah” Initiative, the young artists of Deep Cent…
“Why don’t we just take them down?” a young person asked us. We watched from fields of grass in Forsyth Park as approaching crowds interacted with thre…
On page 41, you’ll find a recipe for cornmeal porridge. On page 57, a poem about yoga. On page 72, a mental health playlist. And in the table of co…