Rock Block is the school-year version of Rock Camp’s band program, so it is exciting to extend this format to Rock Camp’s Arts & Activism workshop for a class outside of the summer Southern Girls Rock’n’Roll Camps and Tennessee Teens Rock Camps that Jessi grew up in. For the past year, she’s been battling cancer and making art about it. Sarah Bandy and Hailey Rowe at YEAH! ( Youth Empowerment Through the Arts & Humanities) offered grant funding for a Rock Block-style Arts & Activism class. Julia Martin recommended I reach out to the Oasis Center, which serves youth close to where Jessi lived. Sure enough, Abby Whisenant at Oasis Center offered up some of their grant funding, their Underground Art Studio space, and their art materials to the effort. Zazu was a member of the band, Those Darlins. She wanted to make sure that all women have access to the.

When Jessi was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, she put up a courageous fight that inspired everyone who knew her. She had been publically battling cervical cancer caused by the HPV. is to honor and memorialize the legacy of Jessi Zazu by continuing her work in the arts, social justice, and womens health. Her mom, Kathy Wariner, loved the idea, especially as she was deciding to form a non-profit in Jessi’s honor. Nashville-based singer Jessi Zazu has died at the age of 28. After Jessi passed away September 12, 2017, it became my mission to see a class like this happen. She expressed this to me when we were spending time together, organizing her art studio as she was preparing for her family’s Relativity Art Show at Art & Soul last year. Jessi Zazu, frontwoman for the Nashville-based alt-country band Those Darlins, died on Tuesday after a battle with cervical.

Jessi Zazu was planning to host an Arts & Activism class out of her basement and screen-printing studio for youth in her North Nashville neighborhood when she received a cervical cancer diagnosis, forcing her to postpone starting the class. Alt-country singer suffered from long battle with cervical cancer. Talking about music right before the pizza man showed up

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