In 1996, public artist Michael Dowling began working with “Southie Survivors”—teens who had lost friends to overdoses, suicide and violence. They created a Celtic Cross memorial an on abandoned lot behind S. Boston High School—a “No Man’s Land” site of drugs and violence. The program continued, other artists joined, and in 2000 MWP was founded as a multimedia public arts program for 90 Boston youth, mentored by professional artists. The medicine wheel metaphor emphasizes not just diversity, but inclusion; everybody helps make the final artwork. Half of all new HIV/AIDS infections are of youth, so MWP teaches youth about it. Their annual Medicine Wheel Vigil is an award-winning week-long observation at Boston Center for the Arts (Cat’97, ’07), featuring visual and performing artworks and culminating in a 24-hour vigil on December 1, World AIDS Day. Their “Join Hands with Us,” HIV/AIDS project involved 7,000 Massachusetts youth from 100 public and private schools, who used kits to make a Wall of Hands installation at the BCA. Other work has been displayed at the Danforth Museum (Framingham), the Boston Public Library, Deval Patrick’s Youth Inauguration, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s YouthReach Conference. MWP is one of the best at what it does, and you can join them.