Video: "After...Life" by Ejaaz Collins

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS INDIANA - "After...Life" (above) by EJaaz Collins is a 2011 Finalist for the A&O Prize for Youth as part of this week's Spirit & Place Festival exhibit, "Beyond Dead: A Youth Response." Collins, a Senior at Broad Ripple Magnet High School in Indianapolis said his work, both imagery and music, "symbolizes complacency with the world I live in. Aspiring for more through Art. Being patient and creating as a way to ascend to a higher place of understanding which is only granted by death." The Finalists will receive their A&O Prize scholarship decisions on Saturday, November 12.