Cardboard beds pop up across Milwaukee to advocate for homeless LGBTQ+ youth

Raising awareness for LGBTQ+ youth homelessness, one cardboard bed at a time

MILWAUKEE — A city-wide street art installation is bringing attention to a hidden crisis: youth homelessness, specifically in the LGBTQ+ community. Courage+, Wisconsin’s only licensed provider of LGBTQ+ youth housing, has partnered with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design’s (MIAD) Community Partnership Program to create “Unsheltered“, a collection of five, full-sized cardboard beds crafted by local artists placed around Milwaukee. LaNia Sp…

Milwaukee art project highlights LGBTQ+ youth homelessness

A new art installation in Milwaukee aims to raise awareness about LGBTQ+ youth homelessness through a citywide project called "Unsheltered."

Cardboard beds pop up across Milwaukee to advocate for homeless LGBTQ+ youth

Donations collected from the project will all go to Courage+ to help expand and support its efforts to keep LGBTQ+ youth off the streets.

New art installation hopes to raise awareness for Milwaukee County's unsheltered LGBTQ+ youth

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